This movement between borders and around structures of control is ultimately what characterizes the nature of  transmission in the novel.  From concepts that elude the attempt to signify them, to compulsory communication, to the subversion of narrative structures, Sadako Yamamura and her cursed video destabilize normative processes of communication.

- Mutating Media: The Ring Virus

Kimberly Knight is a doctoral candidate in Literature at UC Santa Barbara.  Her research interests include literary and cultural theory; digital and information culture; new media literature and art; and contemporary literature.   She is currently writing her dissertation project on viral structures in contemporary literature and new media.  Knight is a member of the development team of The Agrippa Files: an Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) and has served as the RA for the Transcriptions Studio at UCSB.  She is also the current Project Coordinator of The Transliteracies Project as well as the Flash designer and co-author of the Transliteracies History of the Book project, "In the Beginning Was the Word".