EH 102 Textual Transformation (Summer 2012)
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The New Value of Text
There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right? We are witnessing a profound assault on book publishing and literature, on the text itself—not from ebooks, which publishers are slowly, painfully coming around to after a long resistance, or the internet, which is after all entirely made of text—but from applications, “enhanced” books and reductive notions of literary experience. As I’ve written about before, in the context of advertising , publishers’ reactions to new technologies betray a profound lack of confidence in the text itself. We are being distracted by shiny things. Text lasts.
Film: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Retold, 2005)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1062205/ http://rapidshare.com/files/123098640/retold-midsummer.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123098675/retold-midsummer.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123098820/retold-midsummer.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123098761/retold-midsummer.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123108893/retold-midsummer.part5.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123109002/retold-midsummer.part6.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/123108270/retold-midsummer.part7.rar No password <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>THE METAMORPHOSIS OF FRANZ KAFKA - FILM ADAPTATION
Two years after finishing film studies, Carlos Atanes, great fan of Franz Kafka, directed this adaptation very freely. He made the risky decision to don't limit himself too much to the text. He took advantage from what producion achieved (as a magnificent location with a library with more than 60,000 volumes). He added some winks to other Kafka's works (and Borges', and Piranesi's...) and above all, he dressed the story with a lot of allusions and references to the author's private and familar life, especially to his father, Hermann Kafka, whom Franz always had complicated relationship. This identification between fictitious family (the Samsas) and true family (the Kafkas) also inspired a change into the time context: the story is placed at Central Europe subjugated by national socialism, grotesque regime that Franz Kafka didn't know, but it was what, some years after his death, annihilated his family.
The Book, Page 1 | The Jefferson Bible, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
exquisite corpse | harpojaeger.com
write the 2nd (or last) line of this poem ( or get a different one ) Fuck your neo-con bullshit. or start a new poem curently there are 4 open poem s and 548 completed poems. what is this?
Credits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yC81QhR_xk http://www.scribemedia.org/2007/03/19/yochai-benkler/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Meta Mashup – Topics in Digital Media - Fall 09
Mashup, a style of music that combines samples from various songs, would appear to many to be the epitome of copyright infringement. In fact, a 2005 court case, Bridgeport v. Dimension , deemed the unauthorized use of even one second of a sample to be copyright infringement. Since mashup blends several samples over the course of any one song, it must certainly be copyright infringement. Right? Not so fast.
Mashup: A Fair Use Defense
Awhile back, I started keeping a commonplace book. Commonplace book is an odd phrase, perhaps, because what you are supposed to record in such a book is, from one point of view, anything but commonplace. It's likely that, as long as people have been able to write, some have recorded memorable ideas, wise sayings, or beautiful lines of poetry—words of rare value, distinctive enough that we dare not trust them only to our memories. It was in the sixteenth century, especially in England, that the practice of such recording became widespread and recommended by the learned to all thoughtful and literate persons. This happened for two reasons.
First Things - A Commonplace Book
The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book
The following is a transcript of the Hearst New Media lecture I gave last night at Columbia University, subtitled "Two Paths For The Future of Text." Thanks to everyone who came out, and to the Journalism school for the invitation. I want to start with a page out of history—the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson, taken from one of his notebooks on religion. The words on this page belongs to a long and fruitful tradition that peaked in Enlightenment-era Europe and America, particularly in England: the practice of maintaining a “commonplace” book. Scholars, amateur scientists, aspiring men of letters—just about anyone with intellectual ambition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was likely to keep a commonplace book.Steven Johnson and the modern day commonplace book | TriQuarterly Online Mobile
Steven Johnson , author of The Ghost Map , has posted the transcript of a fascinating lecture about the practice of "commonplacing" and the implications of new reading technology on sharing and remixing digital text. During the Enlightenment, scholars and thinkers usually kept a "commonplace book," or research scrapbook where they transcribed interesting passages of things they read, augmented with their own notes. You can see the obvious parallels to modern media. These commonplace books were the original blogs, tracing the development of minds like Jefferson, Milton, Bacon, and Locke.