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1. The Interface Effect

   Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent and immediate connection. But, following the pessimistic path, media are the obstacles to direct communion, disintegrating self and other into misunderstanding and contradiction. In other words, media interfaces are either clear or complicated, either beautiful or deceptive, either already known or endlessly interpretable.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 20:13

2. Video Games as Literary Devices

   Looks at degrees of subordination of videogame to art in art/games by Regina Célia Pinto, Natalie Bookchin, Neil Hennessey, and Jim Andrews. Published in 2007 (With links updated in October 2015) by the University of Chicago Press in a book edited by Grethe Mitchell and Andy Clarke called Videogames and Art (source: Vispo.com)

   Daniel Johannes Flaten Rosnes - 28.09.2021 - 20:57

3. Principles of Literary Criticism

   Principles of Literary Criticism was the text that first was the text that first established his reputation and pioneered the movement that became known as the 'New Criticism' Through a powerful presentation of the need to read critically and creatively, with an alertness to the psychological and emotional effects of language, Richards presented a powerful new understanding both of literature and of the role of the reader. Highly controversial when first published, Principles of Literary Criticism remains a work which no one with a serious interest in literature can afford to ignore.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 21:25

4. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding

   The Rise of the Novel is Ian Watt's classic description of the interworkings of social conditions, changing attitudes, and literary practices during the period when the novel emerged as the dominant literary form of the individualist era. Erudite, yet gracefully written and often amusing, Watt's study examines the nature of the novel audience, the role of the book trade, and the changing structure of society at large.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 22:07

5. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful

   An eloquent and sometimes even erotic book, the Philosophical Enquiry was long dismissed as a piece of mere juvenilia. However, Burke's analysis of the relationship between emotion, beauty, and art form is now recognized as not only an important and influential work of aesthetic theory, but also one of the first major works in European literature on the Sublime, a subject that has fascinated thinkers from Kant and Coleridge to the philosophers and critics of today.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 23:04

6. Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

   Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing the technological sublime.
    

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 28.09.2021 - 23:33

7. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

   Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms our children and other intrepid creative users of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the post-war world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.

   Criminalizing our children and others is exactly what our society should not do, and Lessig shows how we can and must end this conflict—a war as ill conceived and unwinnable as the war on drugs. By embracing “read-write culture,” which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support—artistic, commercial, and ethical—that they deserve and need. Indeed, we can already see glimmers of a new hybrid economy that combines the profit motives of traditional business with the “sharing economy” evident in such Web sites as Wikipedia and YouTube. The hybrid economy will become ever more prominent in every creative realm—from news to music—and Lessig shows how we can and should use it to benefit those who make and consume culture.

    

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 00:05

8. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

   Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures--joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these activities, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, development of skills useful in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 00:35

9. How Voters Feel

   The book sets out to unearth the hidden genealogies of democracy, and particularly its most widely recognized, commonly discussed and deeply symbolic act, voting. By exploring the gaps between voting and recognition, being counted and feeling counted, having a vote and having a voice and the languor of count taking and the animation of account giving, there emerges a unique insight into how it feels to be a democratic citizen. Based on a series of interviews with a variety of voters and nonvoters, the research attempts to understand what people think they are doing when they vote; how they feel before, during and after the act of voting; how performances of voting are framed by memories, narratives and dreams; and what it means to think of oneself as a person who does (or does not) vote. Rich in theory, this is a contribution to election studies that takes culture seriously.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:10

10. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

    Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

    Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:32

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