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Why Seriality w/ Ryan Engley

Žižek And So On

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The Magic of Dickens' Victorian Novel

Dickens was the best selling book in the whole of the 19th century I think in the US and it was only outsold by the Bible. He's writing the story as it's being put out okay and that's like really really crucial because what it what it does. The character of Ben Linus on Lost was not written until Michael Emerson had a scene stealing uh three episodes stint on the series. In just this era of TV people even write the end or you'd like before they do any, he says. This is all about non-narrative serial narrative which has been around for 120 years.

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