User:Tash/RW&RM 02

OULIPO

text as tactical media, when mathematics meets literature: language and cybernetics
cadavre exquis
combinatorial games

synopsis as a form of annotation, of situating and adding context to written content
writing abstracts, and synopsis as part of research practice, to better understand key elements of texts
First synopsis: The Electronic Revolution by William Burroughs > on language as tactical media, the written and recorded word as political instrument, and cut-ups as a method of subverting language
Second synopses: The Digital Universal Library and the myth of chaos by Sanne Koevoets and The Suspicious Archive by James T. Hong > on creating feminist knowledge spaces and archive politics
Synopses written for the reader: here
other influential works read this trimester:
- Library of Babel by Jose Luis Borges
- Invisible Generation by William Burroughs
- Feminism Confronts Technology by Judy Wacjman
- Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau (OULIPO)

making synopses helped me to get back into my formal / analytical writing practice
draft 1 comparative essay: On female authorship in American and Indonesian literary history
improvements to make:
- unpack key concepts like women's role as subject/object – learn to read the essay from an outsider's perspective to see where the gaps are
- use more specific / concrete examples and make sure they are introduced & elaborated on
- pay attention to how vocabulary can strengthen your point - keywords like: discourse, class
draft 2 comparative essay: On female authorship in American and Indonesian literary history

My research practice has developed a lot over the last trimester, and I'm starting to see which subjects might interest me for my thesis (knowledge (re)production, feminism and publishing in Asian context, how design shapes/reflects biases)
Need to practice long-form writing, would love to experiment with creative writing sometime in the future
Questions for next trimester: How to continue to include Asian/Indonesian contexts in my research? More research on decolonizing knowledge? How does how information is structured change the way it is read? Literature as information streams