Not sure that I've time to put anything together for this, but if someone did want to write about the Memory Palace exhibition as a hypercomic, they might find this paper handy:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/dmGoodbrey-wpaper-gn2.pdf
Mostly focused on one of my own pieces, but does draw parallels to Memory Palace a few times and might provide some useful ideas for exploring the work.
- Daniel
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Subject: Hari Kunzru Collection
Posted on behalf of Dr. Bianca Leggett (University of Evansville). Bianca ran a workshop on writer Hari Kunzru in June and is currently putting together a collection of essays and inviting contributions. It might be worth someone with a comics background approaching 'Memory Palace' (book and exhibition) as a hypercomic. For further details contact her on the email listed below...
We invite you to respond with an abstract which addresses one of these works/ themes: as you might anticipate, some works will inevitably attract more attention than others, so we particularly welcome a focus on more marginal texts. Thoughts on an alternative angle for a chapter will also be considered. Please email abstracts of 400-500 words to Bianca at [log in to unmask] for Thursday 31st July. We anticipate chapters of 6000 words in length.
Kunzru's travel writing/ journalism
The Impressionist
Noise/ short stories elsewhere
Transmission
My Revolutions
Gods Without Men
Memory Palace
Twice Upon a Time
Kunzru on contemporary art (pending publication of Kunzru's work on Ryan Trecartin piece) Kunzru and the publishing industry/ literary prize culture
Some of the many, many themes which arose during our workshop and interview with Kunzru include:
Transnationalism and the interconnected world Cosmopolitanism and rootlessness Rethinking British Asian fiction Digital culture and identity Narrative and new media Literature and the contemporary art world Changing notions of selfhood Genre, SF and the figure of the extra-terrestrial Modernist inheritances The limitations of British literary fiction Belatedness The future of the novel Authenticity and ethnicity Neo-reactionary Europeans and the 'Nationalist backlash'
'Speed and slowness': global inequality and travel The novel, politics and ethics The author as public figure Translit and fragmented forms Found poetry, graffiti and the 21st century flaneur Making meaning in the 'broken world'
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