Writing in a Digital Age

The Literary Consultancy's recent conference, Writing in a Digital Age, addressed many of the issues facing writers in our increasingly digital age and how writers can use this technology to their advantage. In his keynote talk, author Hari Kunzru suggested that we are in an unprecedented data-rich period of historya sublime excess as he termed it. This has led to the idea that a writer should abandon self-expression in favour of bricolage. This postmodern term has been around for 50 years so why, he asked, does the writing community still resist the idea in favour of the much older