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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. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. The Theory of Affordances

   James J. Gibson originally introduced the term “affordance” in his 1977 article ‘The Theory of Affordances’, which he subsequently elaborated his book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception in 1979. Gibson defined affordances as all “action possibilities” latent in the environment, objectively measurable and independent of the individual’s ability to recognize them, but always in relation to agents and therefore dependent on their capabilities. For instance, a set of steps which rises four feet high does not afford the act of climbing if the actor is a crawling infant.

   An affordance is a relation between an object or an environment and an organism, that affords the opportunity for that organism to perform an action. For example, a knob affords twisting, and perhaps pushing, while a cord affords pulling. As a relation, an affordance exhibits the possibility of some action, and is not a property of either an organism or its environment alone.

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 01:33

7. 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

8. Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Network Culture. Politics for the Information Age

   Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 02:32

9. Word Perfect: Literacy In The Computer Age

   This book seeks to discuss the enourmus impact computers have on how we read and write, and how we define literacy. While it is written as a critical analysis, the book also reads as a narrative of two opposing models of writing: print literacy and the emerging online literacy.

   Mathias Vetti Olaussen - 29.09.2021 - 11:20

10. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word

    This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.

    In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral genres across the globe and through time, and examines the rise of abstract philosophical and scientific thinking. He considers the impact of orality-literacy studies not only on literary criticism and theory but on our very understanding of what it is to be a human being, conscious of self and other.

    Alisa Nikolaevna Ammosova - 29.09.2021 - 13:39

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