26.9.11
Marie Brenner, Walter Benjamin and The Six Million Dollar Man
Marie Brenner penned many articles, including this excerpt from "The Man Who Knew Too Much," which preceded her time. Brenner seemed to propose new twists on allegorical concepts, introduced the idea of the whistle-blower perspective in several pieces, and wrote about unprecedented stories. Using Brenner as a standpoint, Benjamin was also ahead of his time. He documented events that were neglected within the academic sphere, but largely due to the influence of the genesis of history.
Benjamin wandered and his descriptions of life on the fringes of WWII remain mysterious. He adopts the position of an impassive watcher of commerce as nations fight over the spoils of war after WWI. The main consistency in his writing is that the wanderer mystique is evoked in many of his passages. Many question his role as an individual. The wanderer mystique is also evoked in the writings of Brenner.
She writes,
"I am a whistle-blower," he says. "I am notorious. It is a kind of infamy doing what I am doing, isn't that what they say?"
The whistle-blower introduces the role of the speaker with a question. Walter Benjamin also investigated the role of the speaker in his writing style. He dabbled with the tropes of Twitter before such a machine were popular on-line. Walter Benjamin's writing style was created before such a machine existed on-line. These citations aside, the implications are, the letter is a representation of material.
22.9.11
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14.9.11
13.9.11
Haiku
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12.9.11
What is the Future of Electronic Literature?
What is the Future of Electronic Literature?
Writer Kenneth Goldsmith released a key article on the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Goldsmith published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education outing electronic plagiarism. The article discussed popular releases in the burgeoning field of the study of hypertext literature. He mentioned critic Marjorie Perloff who hypothesized that the truly internet savvy individual is one who navigates information online. Perloff suggests that the idea of the alienated internet cowboy is outdated. Goldsmith, however, grappled with the question of whether this is indicative of an over-flowing amount of information. Goldsmith wrote,
After all, you have instruments such as the WayBack Machine. This large database cataloged information in the realm of digital literature. But, how are we supposed to keep track of the WayBack Machine itself when some of the information being added to that database is from 2004? If we consider the year 2004 as the distant past, as evidenced in the way we store it in a database, then this suggests an error in the way we have been recently taught to record information.
The world's approach to public policy has changed dramatically since 2011. For instance, one only has to look at the above Facebook banner to recognize that they way we share information is different. The Facebook community has usurped the concept of the collective memory and changed the way we record current events. An eyewitness account or personal testimony on Facebook can be seen as more reliable than traditional journals. Provided, that is, that consumers rely more on their peer groups for information than commercial products.
This revolution of the transmission of information, which cutout the tradition pulp machines cannot be stressed in importance enough. The global community, in lieu of neocolonialism, has expanded in the digital realm. The world's landscape has changed. People, therefore, have looked to individuals for the purpose of more accurate, eyewitness reporting. After September 11th, it became clear that the information we receive (at least here in the United States) is biased and lacks a personal perspective about world events. It is unfortunate that it took a global tragedy to draw attention to national politics.
September 11th is the birth of a new, electronic consciousness. The Internet became the way that people could learn about one another directly without the bias of traditional print media. The way we communicated, recorded collective memory, and measure the past all changed during this decade. This is so important that the true birth of digital time for the masses should be seen as happening at on September 11th and continuing until two days ago. The first decade after September 11th should be referred to as Y-1, Electronic Literature ([Y-1, EL, or 1ELs]) within academia. What this decade ushers in is still unknown, but we know that life as we know it, has already begun to be recorded differently. Since 2004 is already considered an antiquated time, then surely, we should revisit the aughts and record what has passed in academia and world events.
Jennifer Sussex is a writer, student living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Writer Kenneth Goldsmith released a key article on the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Goldsmith published an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education outing electronic plagiarism. The article discussed popular releases in the burgeoning field of the study of hypertext literature. He mentioned critic Marjorie Perloff who hypothesized that the truly internet savvy individual is one who navigates information online. Perloff suggests that the idea of the alienated internet cowboy is outdated. Goldsmith, however, grappled with the question of whether this is indicative of an over-flowing amount of information. Goldsmith wrote,
What, then, is the future of electronic publishing in so harried an age? If scholars like Goldsmith and Perloff are right, perhaps it is time that we stop and examine what electronic literature already is before continuing to create more information. The endless stockpiling of information that we are currently producing makes it immensely difficult to keep track of what is actually happening in this field.
it seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing: with an unprecedented amount of available text, our problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information... I manage it, parse it, organize and distribute it... is what distinguished my writing from yours.
After all, you have instruments such as the WayBack Machine. This large database cataloged information in the realm of digital literature. But, how are we supposed to keep track of the WayBack Machine itself when some of the information being added to that database is from 2004? If we consider the year 2004 as the distant past, as evidenced in the way we store it in a database, then this suggests an error in the way we have been recently taught to record information.
The world's approach to public policy has changed dramatically since 2011. For instance, one only has to look at the above Facebook banner to recognize that they way we share information is different. The Facebook community has usurped the concept of the collective memory and changed the way we record current events. An eyewitness account or personal testimony on Facebook can be seen as more reliable than traditional journals. Provided, that is, that consumers rely more on their peer groups for information than commercial products.This revolution of the transmission of information, which cutout the tradition pulp machines cannot be stressed in importance enough. The global community, in lieu of neocolonialism, has expanded in the digital realm. The world's landscape has changed. People, therefore, have looked to individuals for the purpose of more accurate, eyewitness reporting. After September 11th, it became clear that the information we receive (at least here in the United States) is biased and lacks a personal perspective about world events. It is unfortunate that it took a global tragedy to draw attention to national politics.
September 11th is the birth of a new, electronic consciousness. The Internet became the way that people could learn about one another directly without the bias of traditional print media. The way we communicated, recorded collective memory, and measure the past all changed during this decade. This is so important that the true birth of digital time for the masses should be seen as happening at on September 11th and continuing until two days ago. The first decade after September 11th should be referred to as Y-1, Electronic Literature ([Y-1, EL, or 1ELs]) within academia. What this decade ushers in is still unknown, but we know that life as we know it, has already begun to be recorded differently. Since 2004 is already considered an antiquated time, then surely, we should revisit the aughts and record what has passed in academia and world events.
Jennifer Sussex is a writer, student living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
9.9.11
Is this the cure for cancer?
"Loss of cell cycle control is typically an oncogenic process. For cancer to occur, the cells need to replicate beyond any normal physiological control. To answer your question, one factor that in important in controlling the cell cycle is p53. p53 is a checkpoint control in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Defects in p53 cause a loss of cell cycle regulation and are considered an oncogenic transformation."
8.9.11
"All conceptual writing is allegorical writing"
I am reading "Notes on Conceptualisms" by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman. On page 15, the authors mention that "allegory implicates Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem: if it is consistent, it is incomplete; if complete, inconsistent (15)." They reference the fact that "writing is necessarily inconsistent, containing elaborations, recursions, sub-metaphors, fictive conceits, projections, and guisngs that combine and recombine both to create the allegorical whole, and to discursively threaten this wholeness." In terms of allegory, they
Wikipedia's entry on this says that "Gödel's theorem shows that, in theories that include a small portion of number theory, a complete and consistent finite list of axioms can never be created, nor even an infinite list that can be enumerated by a computer program. Each time a new statement is added as an axiom, there are other true statements that still cannot be proved, even with the new axiom. If an axiom is ever added that makes the system complete, it does so at the cost of making the system inconsistent."
Wikipedia's entry on this says that "Gödel's theorem shows that, in theories that include a small portion of number theory, a complete and consistent finite list of axioms can never be created, nor even an infinite list that can be enumerated by a computer program. Each time a new statement is added as an axiom, there are other true statements that still cannot be proved, even with the new axiom. If an axiom is ever added that makes the system complete, it does so at the cost of making the system inconsistent."
6.9.11
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