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Motivation

Why/How I want to make this public

Project Proposal

Project Proposal Pad (a work in progress)

Finished drafts

First draft
Second draft

Thesis Outline

Thesis outline first draft
Thesis outline second draft

Loose Thoughts

Notes on Libraries
The Library as Community Garden

Annotated Bibliography

• Austin, J.L., Urmson, J.O., 1971. How to do things with words: the William James lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1955, Oxford paperbacks. Oxford Univ. Press, London.
  

Synopsis: Austin's theory of "speech acts", first outlined in this publication, proposed that when we speak we not only say things, but also do them. An utterances such as "I bet you $10" is both a constative (declaring statement), and also a performative act, enacting the act of betting (though constrained by whether the act is possible or felicitous).

• Butler, J., 1997. Excitable speech: a politics of the performative. Routledge, New York.
  

Synopsis: Butler examines Austin's theory of the performativity of speech acts in the context of threatening speech, such as racial slurs, stating cautiously that language in this case is the site of injury, rather than the cause.

• Cramer, F., 'Language' in Fuller, M. (Ed.), 2008. Software studies: a lexicon, Leonardo books. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Synopsis: The semantics of programming languages is explored in detail here by Cramer, who takes us through the operational and symbolic functions of artificial languages.

• Dolar, M., 2006. A voice and nothing more, Short circuits. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.

Synopsis: Through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, Dolar examines the voice in its many aspects and affects: linguistic, metaphysical,

• Hall, S., 'Encoding, Decoding' in During, S. (Ed.), 1999. The cultural studies reader, 2nd ed. ed. Routledge, London ; New York.

• Ong, W.J., Hartley, J., 2012. Orality and literacy: the technologizing of the word, 30th anniversary ed.; 3rd ed. ed, Orality and literary. Routledge, London ; New York.