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Lighting Up Classical Rhet_Reading notes for November 10th
Welcome to the Sunday edition of Monday homework. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…Cultural Cool? So, yes, this digital text discusses cultural cool, which is a bit of a new concept for me, though the author mentions”some scholars have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Liu, Appropriation, Artifacts, Characteristics of Cool, Chora, Classical Rhetoric, Cool Rhetoric, Cultural Cool, David Robins, Dick Pountain, Digital Media, ENGL 866, Ethos against Information, Ethos of Information, Hedonism, Historical Tour of Cool, Interface, Ironic Detachment, James Dean, Jeff Rice, Juxtaposition, Mark Pepper, Mutability, Narcissism, New Media, Non-Linearity, Permanent, Private, Topoi
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Until the End of the Illusion, We Will Baudrillard Forward_Reading Notes October 6th
Okay, so this is part two from last week’s reading notes on Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. This time, though, much of these notes will be focused on Baudrillard’s The Illusion of the End (such an uplifting title, no?), with the hopes that … Continue reading
It’s a Little Simulacra, A Little Simulation, and All Baudrillard_Reading Notes for September 29th
Oh Baudrillard, Sweet Nihilist Baudrillard Ah, week 6 reading notes, how is it already this far into the semester? So these reading notes are going to be a little different in the sense that each of my classmates and I … Continue reading
We’re Going To Lingua Fracta All Over This Post_Reading Notes September 22nd
Okay! Time for a new set of reading notes for a new book, Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media. (I have to admit that the title made me giggle a bit). So, this week’s post is actually in regards to … Continue reading
Posted in New Media_ENGL 866, Reading Notes
Tagged Absence/Presence, Aggregators, Archives, Arrangement, Collin Gifford Brooke, Computers and Composition, Containerism, Delivery, Digital Media, Ecologies of Culture, Ecology of Code, Ecology of Practice, Hyperlink, Invention, Lingua Fracta, Memory, Models of Invention, Network, New Media, Pattern, Pattern/Randomness, Performance, Persistence, Persistence of Cognition, Perspective, Proairesis, Reader-Writer Relationship, Reading Notes, Remapping Rhetorical Canon, Rhetorical Canons, Style, Theory, Visual Rhetoric
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Just Roll with the New Media Concepts_Reading Notes for September 8th
All right, round two with New Media: The Key Concepts! As a refresher, the book takes six concepts as key components to studying New Media and its threads: –Network –Information –Interface –Archive –Interactivity –Simulation The chapter on Network was very familiar to … Continue reading
1st Reading Notes for a New Semester_New Media
Welcome Back to the Wonderful World of Summer’s Reading Notes! To begin the Fall 2014 semester, we are reading Nicholas Gane and David Beer‘s book, New Media: The Key Concepts, which focuses its exploration of the discipline of New Media … Continue reading
Dawn of the Cyborg 