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We worked with transcripts a bit earlier in the semester, when we discussed Cecilia Vicuna and David Antin, and I was interested in doing some transcription work of my own. I wanted to work with a favorite artist of mine, Reggie Watts. Watts is a comedic performance artist, who mainly does improvised live shows, during… Continue reading Final Project – Reggie Watts
I love this guy, because he seems like a curmudgeon. I especially love “Against National Poetry Month as Such.” I agree that National Poetry Month seems like just a way for companies to advertise. He writes, “The Academy has taken out a series of newspapers ads that mention no poets and no poems but rather… Continue reading Charles Bernstein’s “Against National Poetry Month”
The very premise of this exercise is flawed, because it puts students in the position of the coal company, instead of the coal miner. It is designed to “illustrate the costs associated with the mining of coal,” but it only focuses on the costs incurred by the company, not the costs of coal mining on… Continue reading Close Reading of “Cookie Mining” Lesson
Like most of the other bloggers this week, my first reaction to Mark Amerika’s work was confusion. I think I am starting to get the idea, though, after viewing the remixes. Actually seeing and hearing the products, instead of reading Mark Amerika’s own ideas about it helped, although I found some of the remixes themselves… Continue reading Thoughts on Mark Amerika and Remixthebook
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen is a powerful work. Part of its power, I think, comes from her use of second-person narration. The book also deals with serious subject matter, racism mostly, but there are other issues. This close reading looks at the speaker of the poem’s relationship to alcohol. You could call it an alcoholic reading… Continue reading Close Reading of Passages from Citizen
We learned how to use Inform 7 in Dr. Sherwood’s Digital Composition class, so I made a short, postmodern lit-themed interactive fiction. http://www.people.iup.edu/lpgv/release2/index.html
On the first day of class, Dr. Sherwood said that we would all have difficulty with at least one of the readings for this class, and mine is with Zolf’s Neighbour Procedure. I feel like ninety percent of the references are going right over my head, and I only have a vague understanding of the… Continue reading Rachel Zolf’s Neighbour Procedure
For my discussion question this week I mentioned that Philip is coming from a postcolonial perspective, and I asked what other critical theories are relevant to this week’s readings. I want to focus especially on a Marxist reading of these three works, although others could be used just as easily. Philip’s Zong! not only rails… Continue reading 3 Readings
I like how he makes up his own portmanteaus. “Pellables” (6) makes me think of pebbles and syllables. “Churchicle” (14) is, I think, a cross between church and cubicle. “Transblucency,” is translucency mixed with blues, which might actually be the name of a song, at least it appears in a list of some kind (25).… Continue reading Some thoughts on Kamau Brathwaite
I really like J.R. Carpenter’s work. She explores what digital media can do that traditional print cannot. In “The Cape,” for instance, she brings in audio material by providing a sample from a talk radio show that is relevant to the narrative. In “… and by islands I mean paragraphs” she plays with the randomization… Continue reading J.R. Carpenter