{"id":116,"date":"2020-01-20T18:35:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/?page_id=116"},"modified":"2020-01-30T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T22:49:42","slug":"week-1-january-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/weekly-schedule-2\/week-1-january-16-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 January 16, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Unit One: Groundwork<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 16 Week One: Introduction \/ toward a nonlinear, nonunified theory of texts and technologies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introductions, course overview\u2014course narrative arc and the material forms of argument, exposition, creation and interrogation with which we will engage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read in advance: Luis Borges \u201cIn the Library of Babel\u201d (1941) <a href=\"https:\/\/maskofreason.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf\">https:\/\/maskofreason.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf<\/a>&nbsp;<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*for a small biographical note on Borges and this short story see: <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryofbabel.info\/About.html\">https:\/\/libraryofbabel.info\/About.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In class we will watch and discuss Alain Resnais\u2019s 1956 short film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/videos\/a-bibliophiles-paradise-the-national-library-of-france-in-a-classic-documentary-from-1956\">Toute la M\u00e9moir\u00e9 du Monde<\/a>\u201d<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction to Assignments: Textual Practice, A Theory of Text Technologies: A Digital Portfolio (A theoretical introduction drawing from texts read this semester and a curated, captioned photo documentation of your own renderings from classmate-led textual practice demos potentially using the Scalar platform for presentation). \u201cLiterary Text Biography\u201d&nbsp; a textual material analysis of a work of literature from a prepared list that appears on Week Seven. There\u2019s something for everyone here!)<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For keywords see at the end of the syllabus some terms listed under the TP assignment description. Some that I list here we shall need to add to the list and generate definitions. Namely, excerpts from Heidegger\u2019s \u201cThe Question Concerning Technology\u201d, Roland Barthes on \u201ctext\/tissu,\u201d and Jacques Derrida on \u201ctext\u201d vs McLuhan from <em>Gutenberg Galaxy<\/em>: text, technology, textuality, paratext (Genette \u201cthe verbal and visual accessories that accompany texts including covers, titles pages, prefaces, and TOC) work, book, reader.&nbsp;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit One: Groundwork January 16 Week One: Introduction \/ toward a nonlinear, nonunified theory of texts and technologies Introductions, course overview\u2014course narrative arc and the material forms of argument, exposition, creation and interrogation with which we will engage.&nbsp; Read in advance: Luis Borges \u201cIn the Library of Babel\u201d (1941) https:\/\/maskofreason.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf&nbsp; *for a small biographical note &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/weekly-schedule-2\/week-1-january-16-2020\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8605,"featured_media":0,"parent":94,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/116\/revisions\/249"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/2020texttech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}