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[[File:Provisionalreader-tash.png|right|400px| A page from our experimental, analog linked provisional reader]] | |||
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[[File:ReaderSpread-168-169.png|right|400px|Spread from eighth text in my reader, with synopsis as annotation]] | |||
== OULIPO == | |||
* text as tactical media, when mathematics meets literature: language and cybernetics | |||
* cadavre exquis | |||
* combinatorial games | |||
== Reading & synopsis writing == | |||
* synopsis as a form of annotation, of situating and adding context to written content | * 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 | * writing abstracts, and synopsis as part of research practice, to better understand key elements of texts | ||
* First synopsis: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Synopsis_24-1-2018 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 | * First synopsis: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Synopsis_24-1-2018 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: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Synopsis7Feb#Reading_.E2.80.93_Tash 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: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Tash/SI5_Synopses 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) | |||
== Essay writing == | |||
* making synopses helped me to get back into my formal / analytical writing practice | |||
* draft 1 comparative essay: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Essay21Feb#Tash 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: [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Tash/Essay4april On female authorship in American and Indonesian literary history] | |||
== Going forward == | |||
* 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 | |||
Latest revision as of 13:18, 3 April 2018
OULIPO
- text as tactical media, when mathematics meets literature: language and cybernetics
- cadavre exquis
- combinatorial games
Reading & synopsis writing
- 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)
Essay writing
- 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
Going forward
- 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