Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/29-11-2017 -Event 2

XPUB1 RW&RM Steve in the small project space

Session Five November 29

This is the last RW&RM session for this trimester!

10:00 - 11:00

Review this trimester's RW&RM

SI4/ poster Review

Look forward to next trimester

RW&RM Trim 2 =The Alphabet is a Writing Machine

Subjects:

Ogden's BASIC English - Neurath's ISoTyPE - Oulipo- Calvino- Uncreative Writing- Distant Reading- Building Writing Machines-

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

Update views on archiving SI4 material

11:00

Gather material to archive SI4 project

14:00

Assessment prep

16:30

Review

RW&RM Trim 2 =The Alphabet as Writing Machine

Subjects:

Ogden's BASIC English - Neurath's ISoTyPE - Oulipo- Calvino- Uncreative Writing- Distant 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."

McLuhan: “All the [smart] things to be said about computers can be spelled out in Plato’s Phaedrus”

Library

Plato-Phaedrus (370 BC)

Eric A. Havelock - Preface to Plato (1963)

Jack Goody and Ian Watt - The Consequences of Literacy (1963)

Walter Ong - Orality and Literacy (1982)

Lydia Liu - The Freudian Robot (2010)

Gerritzen, Lovink, Kampman, eds. - I Read Where I Am, Exploring Information Cultures (2011)

N. Katherine Hayles- Writing Machines (2002)

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)

M. McLuhan - Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man (1964)

William S. Burroughs - The Invisible Generation (1963) [cut up as writing machine]

William S. Burroughs - The Electronic Revolution (c1971)

Six Selections by the Oulipo (1961-1970)

Raymond Queneau - Exercises in Style (1947)

Calvino- Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967)

Calvino- Night Rider [from Cosmicomics) (1967)

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

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

Session Six

Introduction to The Alphabet as Writing Machine

AM:

1) Orality and Literacy

2) How to become a reading-writing machine

PM:

Writing