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EQ of Databases (Popcycle)
“Frequencies”   Narrative     Rational     Expressive   Modes   Creative     Critical     Aesthetic

 
 
» Remember:   Key Resources for Praxis
     (in addition to image editing)

• “Found footage” @ Archive.org (extensive public-domain library) Video   &   Audio
• Audacity (audio editor; free, open-source, cross-platform)
• Create animated videos @ XtraNormal
• Other free & useful sites? Share/suggest in Comments!

“Marcus Novak brings all these threads together in his discussion of liquid architecture when he suggests that cyberspace may be constructed in accord with the old dreams of magic. Duende is the mood of dwelling in information, and poetry is its logic (Novak, 228).”
— Ulmer, “Duende” (blog entry) 24 June 2009.

F 29-Oct Due: Exercise 4 (“Lyric” p. 223 & “Being Singular” p.241) — prompts below.

 

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Part Four “Community Database”

M 18-Oct Internet Invention Chp. 7 “History (School)” Online Discussion (see below)

» key topics: 
 
Riddles of Sense & High Concept; “Ficelle,” quilting, conductive logic, syncretism;
Narrative & History {“Donor,” Sender, Receiver, focalization} Value, “interpellation”;
“secondary encounter” (recognition); “cognitive map”; attunement, Stimmung ; “extimacy”
 
→ closely read: Office, “On the Premises” (191), & all “Comment” sub-sections.
» review Project Two Part II “Community Discourse” (pp.191-2)

• Due: Exercise 3 Assignment (“High Concept” p. 198)
   
• Screening: Be Kind Rewind (Dir. Gondry, 2008)

W 20-Oct Internet Invention Chp 7 & Jacqueline Goss: “Solstice” (2007) — info
 

F 22-Oct Jeremy Bushnell, The Imaginary Year (2004)

Due: Weekly Blog Entry

 
21-22 Oct   » English Graduate Organization Annual Conference:

“Allusion, Adaptation, and Appropriation” — Schedule (PDF)
• attendance/participation extra credit (contact for details)
• Keynote speaker (Thurs 6pm) Douglas Lainer,
  author of Shakespeare & Modern Popular Culture (Oxford UP, 2002)

 

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M 20-Sep Due: Exercise 2 “Memory Glimpse” (p. 90)   Prompt & Tips here.

» Independent Work on Exercise & Inventory;
        optional Online Discussion period 5 (particip. extra credit; see prompt below)

View: Sigur Rós Heima (U.K.) & Hvarf-Heim (U.S.)

Screening: Sigur Ros—Heima (Dir. DeBlois, 2007)
 

“The project is to learn to write with patterns that function
more like music than like concepts.” (91)    — Ulmer, Heuretics

 
Internet Invention Chapter 4: “Cosmogram” (pp. 96-123)

Key Topics (focus): Chora, Cosmogram, “Mapping Diegesis” (popcycle)
“Stimmung,” “String Theory” (ficelle); “syncretism” & “interface metaphor”
» review: “Office” section (pp. 122-3): Mystory, “Widesite”; conduction-inference

W 22-Sep Internet Invention Chp. 4 (96-123) & Not Found by Christophe Bruchansky (2007)

F 24-Sep Sharif Ezzat: Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky & J.R. Carpenter: The Cape

» Due: Weekly Blog Entry: “Mapping Popcycle” (p. 114)

» Due: “Fakebook” (inventory) Update (25-Sep)

 

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