Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/10-01-2018 -Event 1
XPUB1 11:00 - 18:00 R&W Steve in the small project space
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/rw-rm-10-01-2018
11:00 START
TRIM TWO
RW&RM Trim 2 =The Alphabet as Software
Subjects:
Ogden's BASIC English - Neurath's ISoTyPE - Oulipo- Calvino - Uncreative Writing - Distant Reading - Close Reading - Building Writing Machines - the alphabet as software- literature as information streams
Thamus, in Plato's Phaedrus: "O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom."
Steve Rushton:
"As you read this text you might hear a voice inside your head. The voice may approximate your own. It may be the voice you imagine the writer of this text to have. We are so used to reading that we forget that reading and writing are actually technologies. We forget that the alphabet is a very effective piece of software that allows us to reproduce and store human language. In the scale of human history the alphabet is a comparatively recent technology. It is not so long ago that we started to make books (analogue hard drives) and libraries (analogue servers) to preserve human memory.
These voices in our heads, these typographical hallucinations , have long since been naturalized. We think it is perfectly natural for someone who has been dead for a thousand years to whisper beautiful poetry into our ear. We gather the voices into ourselves. The voices become a part of us. In this sense the technology of the alphabet becomes an author of our subjectivity, it makes us the kind of person we are: most literally, literate."
(from how the logic got fuzzy, 2017)
Library
The Alphabet as Software:
Plato-Phaedrus (370 BC)
Eric A. Havelock - Preface to Plato (1963)
Jack Goody and Ian Watt - The Consequences of Literacy (1963)
M. McLuhan - Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man (1964)
Calvino- Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)
Walter Ong - Orality and Literacy (1982)
Katherine Hayles - Writing Machines (2002)
Lydia Liu - The Freudian Robot (2010)
Jos de Mul - The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination' (2008) http://www.demul.nl/nl/publicaties/publicaties-per-categorie/boekbijdragen/item/1549-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-digital-recombination
Text (as software) as Material:
Gerritzen, Lovink, Kampman, eds. - I Read Where I Am, Exploring Information Cultures (2011)
Kenneth Goldsmith - Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011)
Otto Neurath - International Picture Language (a guide to IsoTYPE using Ogden's BASIC English, 1936)
John Johnston - Introduction Friedrich Kittler: Media Theory After Poststructuralism
F. Kittler - Discourse Networks 1800-1900 (1985/1990)
Marco Deseriis- Text Virus (2008)
James Gleick - The Information (2011)
Text (as software) as Tactical Media:
Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style (1947)
Six Selections by the Oulipo (1961-1970)
William S. Burroughs - The Invisible Generation (1963)
[cut up as writing machine]
William S. Burroughs - The Electronic Revolution (c1971)
Calvino- Night Rider [from Cosmicomics] (1967)
R. D. Laing - Knots (1971)
Link to the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlets:
https://litlab.stanford.edu/pamphlets/
Link to a review of Franco Moretti's Distant Reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/books/review/the-mechanic-muse-what-is-distant-reading.html
For next time: make synopsis of text (1000 words max)
What is it saying (thesis) ? (800)
What is its conclusion? (100)
What is your opinion? (100)
What research strands does it suggest?
Your synopsis will form the basis for our seminar for the next session.
(2)
ALSO pick a second text from Delphine’s class. Read it and make notes ahead of the Wednesday seminar
(4)
We will be discussing these texts together in the AM and
(5)
in the PM developing writing machines (modalities and restraints) to generate and organize further discourse and to identify research strands
(6) 11:00 AM Start
Upload you synopsis
HERE:
Outcomes Session Six
17:30 Recap