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zines v. the internet
Thanks to my friend Eric for sending me this link. Rita Flórez at Good Magazine has an article title “Why Zines Won’t Die”, which I found pretty interesting, and relates to my thesis (which, alas, is done, but the research continues!). The final paragraphs of Flórez’s article:
There’s also the “Can I read it on the [...]
Lethem’s “The Ecstasy of Influence”
Neurological study has lately shown that memory, imagination, and consciousness itself is stitched, quilted, pastiched. If we cut-and-aste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks? (Lethem 68)
I just finished February 2007’s Harper’s and there was a series of great essays on copyright, citation, and appropriation. If you’re not a Harper’s reader, they’re [...]
prewriting and collaboration become easier online
Collin Brooke wrote about free online prewriting and brainstorming software that looked pretty cool, so I checked them out. Both of the two websites he sent readers to had to do with mapping, and I’m pretty pleased with both.
The first one, bubbl.us is great if all you want to do is make a map with [...]
sefer and the text
From Robert Alter’s “To the Reader” for his translation of Genesis:
The biblical conception of a book was clearly far more open-ended than any notion current in our own culture, with it assumptions of known authorship and legal copyright. The very different is the technology of bookmaking is emblematic. For us, a book is a printed [...]
thesis “proposal” for MAWG
Cross-posted on MAWG:
Polemics and Irenics in Argument – it’s a start?
In her essay “The Womanization of Rhetoric,“ Sally Miller Gearhart writes that she believes “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence“ because the persuader has an intention of changing someone (53), and proposes that instead we should “forsake all this and think [...]
