Tag Archives: literature

Reading: Whatâ€™s the Function of Criticism? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #36 with Critic Noah Berlatsky

A little refresher course in lit crit 101. Well chosen articles that lead us back to Richards, Sontag, even Pound and Eliot.

Trump is no outsider: he mirrors our political culture – I didn't think I would bother with statements of the obvious, but hey ha. Trump puts the ideology of the right into the limelight, where it promptly and predictably melts.
"What is new and different about him is that he has streamlined these narratives into a virulent demagoguery. But the opportunity has been building for years; all that was required was someone blunt and unscrupulous enough to take it. … Trump disgusts us because, where others use a dog whistle, he uses a klaxon. We hate to hear his themes so clearly articulated. But we know in our hearts that they suffuse the way the world is run." – (politics corporateculture )
Storyspace and hypertext: index to articles – – (none)
Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare’s co-writers | Culture | The Guardian – i bloody knew it! Now waiting for the New Oxford to publish between Oct and Dec. – (literature collaboration collaborativewriting )

The Jew’s Daughter – Fiction from 2000. Read in concert with Composition #1 – (dh literature )
[toread] Emotional contagion – “As usual, xkcd nails it: Mouseover title: "I mean, it's not like we could just demand to see the code that's governing our lives.”
From “Emotional contagion”

Language Log

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13218 – (Unread )

Can Pearson Solve the Rubric’s Cube? |e-Literate – Quick! add efficacy to the mission statement. "So we have plenty of reason to believe that Pearson is quite serious about becoming a company whose mission is to deliver educational efficacy, whatever that may mean to them. But that leads us to several more questions. First, does Pearson’s notion of efficacy truly align with the academic community’s ideas of what a good education is supposed to accomplish? And second, will Pearson be successful as a company if they deliver “efficacious” educational products?" – (efficacy publishing pearson )
Borges, Foucault, and Perec on Lists – – (notetaking literature DH )

Online Forum Takes Notes on Note Taking – – Comment on Note taking cluster – (lists notetaking notebooks literacy )
“Notes, Lists, and Everyday Inscriptions”: Introduction | The New Everyday – A curated cluster media commons, considering how we take notes – the devices and the technques. #1 on my Instapaper list right now: That's a case where the note is the content. – (lists literacy newmedia #plenk2010 ple )
Will the Book Survive Generation Text? – The Chronicle Review – The Chronicle of Higher Education – A modest prediction of more cultural catastrophe on the way. – (literacy literature doomsayers )