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Lines, Arrivals, Departures
Bruce Baugh“Making the Difference: Deleuze’s Difference and Derrida’s Differance”Social Semiotics Vol 73 No. 29 1997 I like this summarizing statement at the end of the essay that pickups the terms discussed earlier and delivers a nice set of lines to … Continue reading
Lost Locus Impetus
Found this note (slipped in a box of papers) and regret that there is no bibliographic information connected with it. My Internet searches yield no location for this: Riffaterre – telos marks the difference between narration and description But I … Continue reading
Corps et Textes
Visceral Data: Renderings That & MatterDigital Humanities at Michigan State UniversityJacqueline D. Wernimonthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIpX2tQCUk The last slide in the talk/demo caught my attention for its positioning of “narratives” We are inspired by Diana Taylor’s call to see embodied performance as a … Continue reading
Scaffolding Conversation
[An off-list epistle (or a short note) about an objection to a move in post on Humanist] Dear X It may be viewed as a bit of stretch to go from Eskelinen to Barthes. I could have occluded the writing/reading … Continue reading
Sontag on Barthes on Meaning
Susan Sontag “Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes” intro to A Barthes Reader reprinted in Where the Stress Falls She has just remarked on Barthes’s subversive use of classifications. Barthes enlists ideas in a drama, often a sensual melodrama or a … Continue reading
Teachable Teacher as Desiring Machine
Astrid Ensslin (“Towards Relational Posthumanism: Writing new body worlds in digital fiction”) in the Spectrums of Digital Humanities series hosted by McGill University Digital Humanities provided theoretical background and screen shots of a project (“Writing New Bodies“) which uses methods … Continue reading
Rhymes With Structure
In the question and answer session to a talk by Astrid Ensslin (“Towards Relational Posthumanism: Writing new body worlds in digital fiction”) in the Spectrums of Digital Humanities series hosted by McGill University Digital Humanities, Dene Grigar remarking on the … Continue reading
with an ear to polyphony
Christian Salmon Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind Drawing on the work of David Boje (1991 study of storytelling performance in an office-supply firm), Salmon observes: People tell their stories in fragments and are constantly interrupted by colleagues who add elements … Continue reading
Matters of Choice
Interactions in Education: A Conversation with Brenda Laurel By Robert Cavalier 05/30/03 RC: What was the main contribution of Aristotle’s writings to your own understanding of HCI? BL: Specifically, it was Aristotle’s definition of theater as a representation of action … Continue reading
Tumbling, Threading, Theorizing
Rethreading (tumbling paragraphs) from a set of comments arising from observing undertheorizing the posited “vulnerability” of the single reader: With the demise of the grand narratives, we find writers as well as readers. Barthes at the end of Criticism and … Continue reading