Sigmund Freud / T.S. Eliot – On Authorship
Sigmund Freud – “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming” Freud is operating – even in the first paragraph – under the paradigm of creative writer as genius in this piece. He also likens creative writer creativity to the world of play – like children. Freud defines humour as something of a situation where the reality of daily life is interpellated with the play of childhood games. People never stop playing – they just move their play... Read More
Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Ch. 1 “Interface”
Lingua Fracta: Towards a Rhetoric of New Media Collin Gifford Brooke Chapter One: Interface Wow. A lot of stuff in this chapter. I’ll be brief, but I don’t want to miss much! Brooke begins by sketching how an electronic essay entitled “Hypertext is Dead,” published in Kairos acted as not only a single text object, but also as something more – a new media text. A main claim of Brooke’s work: “I believe that,... Read More
