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http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.109/19.2lennon.txt

 

interesting article - new tech and po-mo

 

I am not a Borg

Today we had a very interesting discussion
I have spent ages commenting on the others' Blogs so little ltime left to post..But main thoughts
1) why so interesting in class - so little discussion on our Blogs?  Wrong medium? Should we be using a forum? Have asked Polly to investigate!
2) Democratisation?  Don't think so at the mo because
A) who owns the machinery to produce thes messages?  What is their agenda?
B)self-censorship due to societal expectaions of how we shoule "behave" - fear of repriesals if we transgress - as in the Snowdon case mentioned in class... and many moer?
C) IT as the new opium of the masses?
D) Tribes? Communities? Peronae?
E) reality and the moment are only ever fleeting in whatever context and have only ever been that way so this new world we are exploring is infact the only way we can truly consider anything...it is infact the only "real"... ephemeral, transtory, shifting, various, multifaceted, infinitely different
F) but... controlled by who? business? governments?

So do these mean I am a Luddite or does E) above mean I am moving into the virtual world? Am I becoming a Borg?

am I a Luddite?

School Days

Well today we had a very frustrating session trying to set up all our Blogs so that we could communicate virtually with each other as we learn and it was massively ironic how the only way we could achieve this was by all sitting in the library together on computers talking to each other and standing up and helping each other. I know some of the students were wondering what the point of all this is - all process, no product... all medium, no message.....
So for those frustrated students who want to know where this is heading:

n  Task One: practical portfolio
hand in: 28/3/14

n  produce an electronic document (blog, online journal, myspace page, or webpage, and/or to maintain records of your contribution to online journals, collaborative poetry or stories, chatrooms, for a or ezines)
n  Reflective commentary

 

There will also be a task two later....

I also asked them to read

https://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/baudrillard-simulacra_and_simulation.pdf

www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm

 

The second of these two links is the shorter

radio gaga

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bdbpt

Sounds interesting!

'twas brillig and the slythy toves

Before I could post this... I had to re-learn how to sign in and post...  so I could record my thinking on web poetry.

1) searched for web poetry – came up with a lot of e-poems which were playful and challenge conventional ideas of genre, form , content, presentation, analysis….

For example:  http://www.arras.net/web_poetry.htm

In particular: http://www.arras.net/RNG/flash/dreamlife/dreamlife_index.html

 BUT

Did not seem to be any more interactive in terms of collaborative or fluid production of text… the  reader – or viewer – still more-or-less a viewer – or reader (with the caveat that all readers produce meanings).  Production of meanings but not construction of arfefact or particiapeation in performance..

There must be more to this… surely it should be interactive, participatory, challenging boundaries between author and reader…

So

2) searched for hyper-text poetry

This was more like it

Especially …. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_poetry

This seems to sum up everything we need to think about ( I know… Wikipedia again!)

Consider: hypertext poetry, collaborative poetry (writing and publication), digital poetry, computer generated poetry, different media, interactive poetry (Interaction allows the reader to participate and influence the work and their experience of it.)

But then immediately came up against a problem

3) The hyper link to:

http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/jabber/

was dead – shame as this looks like a very important and early example of the genre? Form?

 So – I searched for it elsewhere to find that you have to BUY the opportunity to participate in this poem… leading me to ponder on the relationship between  the writer and the reader – has it actually changed – we have to pay the author to play the poetry-game.

So rather than a collaborator – we are now a customer – a consumer --- so where is the  democratisation offered by the digital revolution?

 4)  Decided I need to do some more reading – found this bibliography but will also ask a friend to recommend key texts.

http://leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/newmediapoetry.html

5) Definitions here – useful

http://course1.winona.edu/geddy/Eng353/hypertext_poetry_and_fiction.htm

6) BRILLIANT PLYFUL INTERACTIVE SITES

http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall01/johnson/PG3.html

http://www.clickablepoems.com/

 

But again – interesting mix

Some obsolete, some interactive, some just links to video performances… some linking to sites where you have to PAY…