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“I walked down the half-lit stairwell whistling. The tune had died out to sporadic shrieks of high-pitched noise as I experienced my own echoes in the silence. Familiar beige walls, cracked and filled to hide decades of structural decay. Esoteric hieroglyphs which allow only those sacred, modern day masons a view into their significance orient themselves with indifference underneath the dust. There are no people here, no signals. The stairs lead further down, absence communes with disconnection, silence with age. What lay in this unremarkable stairwell was not any great art or object but a contemporary sublime. We may even call it the anti-sublime, for it is not the vastness which brings terror but the lack of access to vastness. With no connection to the infinet, the internet. I find only the immediate and the internal. These are the places we can begin to call the ‘unspaces’, somewhere on the border of space. Somewhere between perception and translation.”
Reflections on curation When approaching curation, we may notice three actions that are being undertaken:
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A detailed chronology of research I've carried out for an assignment on posthumanism. the timeline itself is also an assignement supposed to trace one aspect of digital culture. Presentation of idea: https://prezi.com/imwqiwnitica/representing-research
Timeline: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/758854/Representing-research/ My proposition is that considering texts in the same way we might games invokes the inspection of a multitude of different spatial layers of interpretation. These layers in contemporary society are largely rendered in media as a site of conflict between reality and other worlds. The interjections of game-space into an individual's daily life is being treated as a speculative future and from this observation, the entrapment of the individual in texts is being carried out through metafictional techniques designed to promote the text as a 'real world' artefact. Game-space cannot be solely defined within the digital realm because play is never so defined as to be on or off, 1 or 0. Play, and the game-space, are analogous components that are constantly involved in the individual's relationship to the world.
A blog I created for my assignment on P K Dick's novel. I created a small chatbot to respond to simple questions, had there been sufficient availability I would have created a better functioning version.
Click here to see Po-Mo-Ro-Bo
To examine the representations of otherness and exoticism in early modern literature a post-colonial critical interrogation of the language and roles given to the sub-alterns will hopefully provide the most compelling conclusions on the respective representations of oppression and otherness. This essay will compare Othello (1604) and The Tempest (1611) by William Shakespeare adding historical context drawn from The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation (circa. 1580-1600) compiled by Richard Hakluyt. Othello and Caliban will be analysed as characters oppressed and labelled by western attitudes and hegemony; Caliban by the invading Prospero ('abhorred slave', 'Hag-seed', 'filth as thou art'. Act 1, Sc. 2. ln.498-520) and Othello through his 'moor' ancestry ('Moor', 'thick-lips', 'old black ram', 'Barbary horse'. Act 1, Sc. 1. ln.57-113) in Venetian culture. By interpreting their language and behaviour as methods of subverting power through either 'mimicry' or 'hybridisation' (Bhabha, 1994) the essay will focus on the bestial allusions as indicative of hegemonic oppression through dehumanisation. The dehumanisation process allows, as Bandura (2002) postulates, for a lack of moral self-sanctioning when treating other people and, as such, is a method by which the ruling classes are able to righteously persecute the 'others'.
We were asked to create something useful for students, so I made a database for storing and categorising quotes. LazyCite was made with Apache open office and so if free for download and use. Current database size: 46 records.
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