Schedule
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| Section 01 | media ecologies: orality, literacy, electracy. | terms | due |
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Introduction William Carlos Williams' "The Great Figure": |
media ecology & |
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| Jan. 21 |
Orality Beowulf soundbites annotation: post: For this opening post, read Williams' poem The Great Figure as four different information structures: a written poem, a graphic design, a video, and a digital structure. Pick two: what differences do their differences make to the poem's "meaning" and to your position as its interpreter? |
medium & message primary orality technotext |
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Ong, Orality and Literacy, Ch. 3: "Some Psychodynamics of Orality" Felicia Hemans' Casabianca a.k.a. "The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck" annotation: post: Most Victorian children were required to learn Felicia Hemans' "Casabianca" "by heart" and recite it aloud before their peers and parents. In this post, write a paragraph that reflects on your own experience in memorizing this poem: 1) if poems like "Casabianca" aim to teach a cultural lesson, how does it feel to "learn" this lesson not by analysis but by memorization?; 2) what structural features of this poem make it (relatively) easy to memorize?; 3) what gives memorized materials (prayers, songs, pledges, poems) their particular social power? 4) what's the effect, to add another medium to the mix, of this particular website as a carrier for this particular poem? |
secondary orality |
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| Jan. 28 |
Literacy & . . . Imagining & demo-ing the digital: Morris, "Introduction" to New Media Poetics & poem sampler post: After spending time with the two poems above, pick one and compare its organization of information with 1) the organization of information in an oral composition; 2) the organization of information in a print book; 3) the organization of information in Bush's memex. What are the challenges of this poem? What are its rewards? What are its limits? |
print culture thinkertoy distributed cognition media-specific analysis Memex transliteral morphing |
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Electracy post: After reading Hayles's overview of the genres of electronic literature, explore your poem, prepare to demonstrate how it works, and compose a post that assesses it in light of Hayles's claim that "contemporary electronic literature is both reflecting and enacting a new kind of subjectivity characterized by distributed cognition, networked agency . . . , and fluid boundaries dispersed over actual and virtual locations" (37). |
digital born networked & programmable |
post on one of the 3 poems for today & prepare to play it in class annotation |
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| Feb. 4 | first-generation electronic writing: more second-generation electronic writing: a sampler post: Innovative writing of any sort must always be, among other things, a reading lesson. Because new media writing departs from the print structures we know, it has to teach us how to think about its compositional strategies. Twelve Blue is, in this sense, a technotext: it mediitates on its own inscription techniques. As you navigate this text, watch for a series of embedded and overlapping metaphors for its construction: a quilt, a river, a particular kind of carnival ride, a thread through a labyrinth, etc. After thinking about the ways in which Joyce's formal choices organize our perceptions, explore an object or event within the story that serves as a figure for one or another aspect of hypertext narrative. |
first-generation & second-generation electronic literature hypertext links & nodes lexia |
post annotation (Keelan) |
| Week 4 Feb. 9 |
Remediations & the Differential Text Versioning Homer short interview with YHCHI annotations: post: Like Book XI of Homer's Odyssey and parts of Pound's Cantos 1 & 2, YHCHI's Dakota tells the tale of a youthful road trip. By remediating parts of Homer's oral poem and Pound's print epic for the Web, YHCHI enter into conversation with them. With an ear and eye to the poem's oral and print predecessors, use this post to explore YHCHI's digital medium and message. What happens when Homer's material is remixed for digital culture? |
Flash poem |
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| Feb. 11 | Stephanie Strickland, "The Ballad of Sand and Soot" annotation: post: For this post, follow the track of your topic away from then back toward Strickland's "The Ballad of Sand and Soot." What does the material you have researched contribute to this odd poem? Does it augment the version of the poem published in the Boston Review or detract from it? What does remediation for the web suggest about media-specific analysis? |
post annotation of Odin (Derek) |
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Christian Bök, Eunoia, Chapters E & U Wershler-Henry, review of Eunoia post: For this post, pick a vowel--e or u or, if you'd like, a vowel from any other chapter of Eunoia--and compose a short review of the corresponding chapter in the form of an imitation lipogram. Try to catch, if you can, the spirit of the whole. And, not least, have fun. |
lipogram |
discussion of wiki-teams post
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| Feb. 18 | PAPER CONFERENCES, WEEK OF FEB. 23RD SIGN UP SHEET ON WIKI |
conferences |
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new literacies of electronic communications Marjorie Perloff, "Screening the Page / Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text," in New Media Poetics (all) Bergvall, ambient fish browse UbuWeb review for Quiz #1 / bring any questions you have |
differential text |
annotation of Perloff interview (Clarissa) annotation of cheek interview (Wendy) |
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| Feb. 25 | mid-course assessment / formation of Wiki teams | Quiz #1 |
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| Section 02 | cybertexts: computational & combinatorial texts | terms | due |
theories & practices: review and anticipation |
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| March 4 | Hayles, Electronic Literature, Ch. 2 "Intermediation: From Page to Screen" Mencia, Birds Singing Other Birds' Songs & website/ Jacob post: In this post, pick one of the poem-machines assigned for today and use the terms "intermediation," "dynamic heterarchies," and "recombinant flux" at least once in a paragraph of interpretation. 1st in-class meeting of collaborative groups |
intermediation feedback loop dynamic heterarchies recombinant flux |
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| Week 8 March 9 |
Laura Miller www.claptrap.com: example of the mainstream reaction to advocates' claims for 1st-generation electronic literature Aarseth Cybertext, Ch. 1 "Introduction: Ergodic Literature" Poems That Go: Games Issue post: In this post, pick one of the poem-machines assigned for today and use the terms "cybertext," "ergodic text," and "feedback loop" at least once in a paragraph of interpretation. groupwork: each group should 1) make a quick definition of their field or topic; 2) draft an initial statement of purpose; 3) & each person should put into the table a quick sketch of the topic for their individual project. All this will change, but these initial statements can be a starting point. I will then suggest readings for the annotated bibliography. |
cybertext textual machine |
post annotation / Keelan players:
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March 11 |
Aarseth, Cybertext, Ch. 2 "Paradigms and Perspectives" OULIPEAN WORK: S + 7 poems annotations: post: write an S + 7 exercise on a cultural document of your choice then post your exercise with a paragraph that explores the result. EXTRA POINTS: choose a Bernstein or Mayer experiment, do it & comment on it. |
OULIPO interactivity procedural poetics database & algorithm emergent behavior |
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comment on 2 papers on Wiki annotations: players: |
| Week 9 March 23 |
combinatorial intertextuality, a.k.a. cut-ups & mash-ups William Burroughs and Brion Gysin: Jim Andrews, with Brian Lennon and Pauline Masurel, Stir Fry Texts/ Jacob |
cut-up |
wiki-team bibliography: first entries
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| March 25 | DJ Spooky, a.k.a. Paul D. Miller DJ Spooky's website / Michael materials for a mash-up: post: The opening section of DJ Spooky's Rhythm Science mixes digital and sonic terminology: on the one hand, terms like link, log-in, extension, [feedback] loops, database logic, vectors, interface architecture, and dataspace; on the other, terms like rhythm, rhyme, freestyle, and improvisation. Taking one term from each column--say, for example, dataspace and rhyme--improvise on the logic of the combination. How do the two information fields inform, deform, or reform each other? In your post, follow a vector created by their (re)combinations(s). |
mash-up database logic wildstyle multiplex consciousness rhythm science |
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| Week 10 March 30 |
Plunderphonics DangerMouse, The Grey Album / Keelan post: One of the most famous early mash-ups is DJ Danger Mouse's Grey Album, created in 2004 by mixing rapper Jay Z's Black Album with unauthorized samples from the Beatles' White Album. Use this or another mash-up of your choice (but describe it first) to speculate on why this form of "uncreativity," anticipated by Burroughs's cut-ups, seems to have become creatively urgent in our time. What do mash-ups test? What do they do? What do they tell us? Why are they, at this point in time, one of the most compelling popular art forms? conferences Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week: sign-up- on Wiki homepage |
plunderphonics |
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| April 1 | Kenneth Goldsmith UbuWeb / Erin Simon Morris video Sucking on Words: Kenneth Goldsmith |
uncreative writing nude media |
Goldsmith annotation / Jacob |
remediations of Fidget: annotations: review terms for Quiz #2: bring questions to class |
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prospectus due annotation for Perloff / Clarissa annotation for Beaulieu / Michael annotation for Gallo / Erin |
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| Section 03 | cyborg subjectivities | terms | due |
April 8 |
anticipations: Hayles, Electronic Literature, Ch. 3 "Contexts for Electronic Literature: The Body and the Machine" - annotation / Dee |
cyborg man-computer symbiosis deep attention / hyper attention |
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| Week 12 April 13 |
Stelarc Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Nippon / Galen Daft Punk, Technologic |
distributed intelligence |
Pressman annotation/ Derek |
April 15 |
Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia (access through CD in Hayles, Electronic Literature) / Michael readings of Memmott's L2P: Galen and Steve on Egyptian mythology in L2P post: Using the L2P lexicon handout, choose one term or cluster of terms from Memmott's poem-machine and use it to enter the world constructed by Lexia to Perplexia. How does this term or set of terms help de-perplex Memmott's perplexia? If new terminology is necessary to capture the dynamics of remediated thinking, what thoughts do Memmott's creole help the user construct? |
cell.f narra(c)tive creole |
post annotation for Watten / Clarissa annotation for Hayles /Keelan
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| Week 13 April 20 |
codes & codework: 2nd reading of Memmott, Lexia to Perplexia (access through CD in Hayles, Electronic Literature) / Michael |
code |
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| April 22 | Mez (explore her web page but see especially_the data][h!][bleeding texts_) / Jacob Raley, Interferences: [Net.Writing] and the Practice of Codework review of terms for quiz #3 meeting of small groups in preparation for annotated bibliography, Wiki pages, and class demo (including reading & assignment) |
m[ez]ang.elle code work |
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| Section 04 | tactical media: the politics, poetics, & ethics of the hack | terms | due |
| Week 14 April 27 |
Wark, Hacker Manifesto: read around in this text, but see especially "abstraction," "education," "hacking," "information," "subject," & "vector," "nature," "representation," "revolt," & "state" Optional: Preamble to the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) post: After reading through the database that is A Hacker Manifesto, compose a brief definition of your term. How does this term hack the term's conventional definition? To what end? |
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| April 29 | Tactitians
Giselle Beiguelman Tactical Media optional: |
tactics strategies nomadic poetry |
annotated bibliography due
responses sign-up sheet |
| Section 05 | cyberculture(s): presentation by Wiki teams | terms | due |
| Week 15 May 4 |
procedural poetics / Erin and Wendy --reading: Wiki pages including annotated bibliography --post: select aprocedural constraint from the Wiki menu, try it out, and post the result with a brief commentary on ICON sound and visual poetics / Clarissa, Galen, Michael --reading: Wiki pages including annotated bibliography & gallery |
galleries posted
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May 6 |
gaming, virtual worlds, and net culture / Steve, Keelan, Jacob, Derek gaming autobiographies: Derek, Steve, Keelan, Jacob |
galleries posted |
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| May 14 | responses need to be posted on the Wiki and/or put in my in-box--hard copy in EPB or virtual copy in email--no later than 4:00 pm | responses due |
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Updated May 4, 2010 14:29 • Contact Dee Morris