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Suggested Readings?

Submitted by KF on 17 November 2006 - 9:38am.

So far, it appears that we have a very few suggested readings for our second-to-last week of class. These include a few online sources:

-- Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

-- The Semiotics of the Web

-- A New Alphabet

-- The Onyx Project

And a couple of print sources:

-- Daniel Punday, "The Narrative Construction of Cyberspace" (available through JSTOR)

-- Jerome McGann, from Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web (which I'll digitize a selection from if need be)

So this is last call: if you have other suggestions, post them in the COMMENTS to this post. And use the comments to vote for your preferences.

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I would suggest that people

Submitted by silversprung on 17 November 2006 - 11:31am.

I would suggest that people read about Sophie, on if:book, if they haven't already done so.

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I loved Sven Birkerts

Submitted by marmalade on 17 November 2006 - 2:30pm.

I loved Sven Birkerts Gutenberg Elegies--I hesistate to recommend one part over any other, but chapter 10 ("Close Listening"--a meditation on the beauties of reading) and chapter 11 ("Hypertext: of Mouse and Man"--how electronic reading is different than normal reading) are perhaps the most suitable. While neither is very long, maybe choosing just one would be best.

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Another print suggestion is

Submitted by Pimm on 18 November 2006 - 12:52pm.

Another print suggestion is Walking Mornings by Michael Joyce. I thought it might be appropriate to read this essay about his changed thoughts on hypertext/new media at the end of semester. Plus it's based on a talk he gave at Pomona. And it's already on Sakai!

As for my votes, I think the Onyx Project would be cool to discuss, as well as Jerome McGann's Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web.

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I liked Walking Mornings as

Submitted by Frabby on 18 November 2006 - 4:31pm.

I liked Walking Mornings as well.

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Me three-- although I'm not

Submitted by silversprung on 18 November 2006 - 4:35pm.

Me three-- although I'm not sure it would be as useful for us to talk about in class as some of the other stuff up here. It is a really nice essay, though.

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Hayles

Submitted by crashingintowalls on 19 November 2006 - 10:30am.

I was supposed to post this earlier, but I've been sleeping a lot. I'd like to suggest Katharine Hayles' "Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers," a piece that looks at the stakes of electronic literature from the standpoint of embodiment (just search the title on JSTOR). Among other things, Hayles probes the links between physical and textual bodies, focusing on the effects of new media that often have no physical essence. Indeed, the influence of new forms of literature seems to play out not just online, but in the "real world." Throughout, Hayles looks to delineate "pattern" from "presence," which I found particularly relevant to discussions that we have had regarding hypertext, games and distributed narrative. I think this reading could give us some interesting new views on existing issues and perhaps draw things together as we come to the end.

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