Cognition | epiphonema

Reid – The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition

Posted by justin on February 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Reid, Alexander. The Two Virtuals: New Media and Composition. West Lafayette: Parlor Press. 2007. Introduction: The Two Virtuals There are two virtuals. The first is the virtual reality with which many of us are familiar. This is the virtual reality of technology – cell phones, MMORPGs, etc. This virtual reality has created anxiety for higher education by raising anxieties about the diminution of humanistic... Read More

Filed under CCR712, Major Exam · Tagged with baudrillard, becoming, cognition, consciousness, control society, cybernetics, deleuze, disciplinary society, distributed cognition, hardt and negri, materialist philosophy, multiplicity, network theory, new media, new media pedagogy, posthumanism, singularity, virtual-actual, virtual-technology

CCR691 – Week 3 – Ch. 2 Blog for Comment

Posted by justin on September 14, 2009 · 6 Comments

Chapter 2 : Poetics and Narrativity: How Texts Tell Stories – Phillip Eubanks Main Claims / Executive Summary In this chapter, Eubanks sets out to reclaim narrative and metaphorical criticism from the hands of “traditional poetics” in order to recognize how influential narrative and metaphor are to the creation of meaning in daily life. To achieve this, he begins by grounding the all-pervasiveness of narrativity in two areas:... Read More

Filed under CCR691 · Tagged with CCR691, cognition, conceptual metaphor, lakoff, metanarrative, metaphor, method, methodology, narrative, narrativity

music

New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]