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
TRIM TWO
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)
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