I’ve pulled some “sound bites” from DJ Spooky’s “Loops of Perceptions” article in hopes of breaking it down into something I can understand through linking central ideas. Each one begins with “think of” and ends with a series of linking ideas. “Think of DJ culture as a kind of archival impulse put to a kind [...]
The Bank of Imagination and its Rhetoric
When considering the “Bank of Imagination” as a rhetorical device of new media, I instantly refer back to how dialogue has evolved over centuries upon centuries. When people look at mass media, especially in the beginning days of newspapers, they see a string of dialogue: news->audience. It is a one-way communication, hence the word “mass.” [...]
The Evolution of Writing
I was both fascinated and opposed to an article I read called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I didn’t really agree with most of what Carr said, but I was “stung” by his few paragraphs on Nietzsche: “Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter—a Malling-Hansen Writing Ball, to be precise. His vision was failing, [...]
Constrained Creativity
Oulipo seems like it would be the most fascinating and frustrating writing technique I have ever come across. The idea of constraining yourself to produce new, fresh waves of creativity seems as though it “cannot be ill, cannot be good,” to borrow from Hamlet. But I also say, don’t knock something until you try it. [...]
