[…]The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (winner of the 2004 Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts. She is now at work on a book to be called Strategic Formalism: Shape, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. Caroline Levine is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She’s the author of two books: The Serious Pleasures of Suspense (winner of the 2004 Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies) and Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts. She is now at work on a book to be called Strategic Formalism: Shape, […]
[…]wagons in the medieval city of York and a detailed analysis of the previously unpublished source code to Will Crowther’s original “Colossal Cave” text-adventure game. He has published a video course with Packt Publications, “Building Games with Scratch […]
[…]of Oregon. Her research interests include ecofeminism, the environmental humanities, disability studies, and comics studies, with a particular emphasis on graphic […]
[…]and “The Mysteries of Postmodernism, or, Fredric Jameson’s Gothic Plots” in Gothic […]
[…]A central issue for me is: what could digital forms reveal about poetic language that conventional critical writing cannot? To explore this, in the late 90s, I began to experiment with “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard,” the Mallarmé poem often cited as the forerunner to concrete and modern visual poetry. Simply put, it seemed to me proto-digital more than proto-concrete. It became an interactive CD-Rom (sounds quaint now!) containing translations and critical interventions impossible on paper, but seemingly implicit. Since then, I’ve focused on the Readers Project (with John Cayley and Daniel Howe), making poems embodying elements […]
[…]that ask students to consider not only what they write, but how. She is currently at work on a critical book, “The Upright Script: Modernist Mediations and Contemporary Data […]
2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bergen’s Digital Culture Research Group, Kathi Inman Berens works with canon formation and reception history of electronic literature. A curator and scholar, Kathi has installed literary exhibits and live performances at the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and at two annual conventions at the Modern Language Association. Her shows have been reviewed in academic journals and the Huffington Post. A lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication, and member of the Annenberg Innovation Lab’s Research Council, Kathi won in 2012 an IBM Faculty Award for her work […]
[…]He is also the Podcast Section Head for First Person Scholar, uWaterloo’s multimedia games studies periodical run through its Games […]
[…]being variable, and visible according to different organizational rubrics: theme, language group, discourse style, real world geography, “Joe’s Favorites,” “Users’ Favorites.” Many different ways to view the Table of Contents, or Field of Contents. Different views for different uses, different moods. 3} — Many programmers have made it a Holy Grail to devise a nest of algorithms to…automatically…link new pieces of designwriting together in a meaningful way. The results are sometimes interesting, but most often dull. My counsel: try that, if it interests you, but don’t leave ALL the linking functions to the machine. Have machine-linked views AND Human-DJ-Linked views. […]
[…]Laurie Becklund (HBJ 1991) wears out its claim as Nike’s unauthorized biography by being less critical of the sneaker giant than Just Do It manages to be. Take away the feud between CEO Phil Knight and J.B.’s husband Rob, who left the company in 1986, and Swoosh is no more unauthorized than a pledge raid on the frat house. two tales of one Nike Author, authorized, unauthorized, authority, authoritarian: terms laid waste by postmodern discourse attain recuperation in the business world of letters. Some of the respectable journalists I name may resent being identified as authors of authorized corporate histories, […]