lunes, 25 de septiembre de 2017
Contra los curas independentistas
Y contra el sermón de la majadera profesora Marina Garcés en Barcelona—indigno de una "filósofa crítica", aunque quizá digno de un cura catalán.
Brandau, Dieter. "Editorial
de Dieter: Religiosos independentistas." EsRadio 25 Sept. 2017.*
2017
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Me citan en Poetics Today
A cuenta de la narratividad, me cita Meir Sternberg en este artículo —de hecho una monografía sobre el tema— en Poetics Today. La cita no es de hoy, ni de ayer, pero ahora la veo gracias a ResearchGate:
Sternberg, Meir. "Narrativity: From Objectivist to Functional Paradigm." Poetics Today 31.3 (2010): 507-659.
_____. "Narrativity: From Objectivist to Functional Paradigm." Poetics Today 31.3 (Sept. 2010): 507-659. Online at ResearchGate.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261739916
2017
Sternberg, Meir. "Narrativity: From Objectivist to Functional Paradigm." Poetics Today 31.3 (2010): 507-659.
_____. "Narrativity: From Objectivist to Functional Paradigm." Poetics Today 31.3 (Sept. 2010): 507-659. Online at ResearchGate.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261739916
2017
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Enfermedades morales de la mente
Federico a las 6. En Cataluña están enfermos... y ojo que es contagioso en Zaragoza. http://esradio.libertaddigital.com/fonoteca/2017-09-25/federico-a-las-6-en-cataluna-estas-enfermos-117697.html
Comenta aquí cómo Marina Garcés, pregonera de las fiestas de la Merced invitada por Ada Colau, equipara en su pregón de fiestas a los asesinos y víctimas del terrorismo, diciendo que en estas fiestas se echa en falta, con dolor, a los asesinos de Ripoll, "que nadie sabrá si querían morir matando".
La frase se las trae, porque su sintaxis pone en duda y equipara también la duda sobre si querían morir (poca duda en el caso de yihadistas, pero bueno) y la duda sobre si querían matar. El intento de blanquear a los terroristas está fuera de duda, pero persiste la duda sobre cómo le funciona el cerebro a esta persona: si realmente no entiende los terroristas querían matar, el asunto ya es de cabeza—si rige o no—y no sólo de vileza moral.
¿Hace falta ser filósofa para llegar a este nivel de discernimiento? Esta mujer está muy mal, o por lo menos está muy mal dando lecciones de filosofía moral en mi universidad.
Pues Marina Garcés es profesora del departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Zaragoza, una ciudad donde no es ella la única que profesa el catalanismo. Y se autodefine como "filósofa crítica." Bien, pues esto es lo que hay como pensamiento crítico, o más bien como pensamiento que está en estado realmente crítico.
En fin, que mejor y en términos más proporcionados lo cuanta Federico Jiménez Losantos. A partir del minuto 15.
Comenta aquí cómo Marina Garcés, pregonera de las fiestas de la Merced invitada por Ada Colau, equipara en su pregón de fiestas a los asesinos y víctimas del terrorismo, diciendo que en estas fiestas se echa en falta, con dolor, a los asesinos de Ripoll, "que nadie sabrá si querían morir matando".
La frase se las trae, porque su sintaxis pone en duda y equipara también la duda sobre si querían morir (poca duda en el caso de yihadistas, pero bueno) y la duda sobre si querían matar. El intento de blanquear a los terroristas está fuera de duda, pero persiste la duda sobre cómo le funciona el cerebro a esta persona: si realmente no entiende los terroristas querían matar, el asunto ya es de cabeza—si rige o no—y no sólo de vileza moral.
¿Hace falta ser filósofa para llegar a este nivel de discernimiento? Esta mujer está muy mal, o por lo menos está muy mal dando lecciones de filosofía moral en mi universidad.
Pues Marina Garcés es profesora del departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Zaragoza, una ciudad donde no es ella la única que profesa el catalanismo. Y se autodefine como "filósofa crítica." Bien, pues esto es lo que hay como pensamiento crítico, o más bien como pensamiento que está en estado realmente crítico.
En fin, que mejor y en términos más proporcionados lo cuanta Federico Jiménez Losantos. A partir del minuto 15.
_____. "Federico a las 8:
Ridículo de Podemos en Zaragoza." EsRadio
25 Sept. 2017.*
2017
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Retropost #1799 (25 de septiembre de 2007): Mucha tecnología de la información y
Mucha tecnología de la información y
Publicado en Quejas. com. José Ángel García Landa

(Nota enviada al Rincón de Opinión de la Universidad... a ver si aparece. Ahora ya he solventado el misterio de quién lo lleva en la práctica).
La Universidad nos ha hecho llegar hace poco un CD-ROM con librito-resumen, titulado "Innovación docente, Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación e Investigación Educativa en la Universidad de Zaragoza: Caminando hacia Europa". Dejando aparte la cuestión de que no tenemos por qué caminar hacia Europa porque llevamos allí toda nuestra vida, hay que hacer dos observaciones:
- Primero, agradecer a la Universidad la información que nos hace llegar y la planificación de estos programas de innovación docente; también vaya el agradecimiento a todos los que han contribuido con notable esfuerzo a una publicación que puede resultar muy útil.
- Segundo: Observar que los documentos en el CD-ROM están desordenados, y no se corresponde su orden ni con el del índice del propio CD-ROM ni con el del librito adjunto. Con lo cual cuesta muchísimo tiempo encontrar el documento que se busca: hay muchísimos. También se hubiera agradecido una selección previa o clasificación destacada (aunque se prestase a críticas) de los trabajos más innovadores o de interés general a juicio de quienes han editado este trabajo. Hay demasiadas cosas por leer en el mundo.
Como mínimo, para permitir el uso de este trabajo, creo que habría que desfacer el entuerto, que los responsables hiciesen el índice como es debido y nos lo pasasen al personal docente e investigador por correo electrónico, en plan fe de erratas. Gracias.
Por cierto, hablando de ponerse las pilas: un resultado interesante de búsqueda en Google. Buscando "Facultad de Filosofía y Letras" (926.000 resultados) aparece la de Zaragoza en los primeros puestos—ahora la tercera, detrás de la de Buenos Aires y la de México, hace un rato la segunda. Creo que es inmerecido, sinceramente, un puesto tan encumbrado.
Buscando "Departamento de Filología Inglesa" (45.400 resultados) aparece (hoy) nuestro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana en el último puesto de la primera página—uf. Aparecen antes Granada, la Autónoma de Madrid, la Complutense, la de Jaén, la de Granada, la de Salamanca, la de Alicante, la del País Vasco y la de Málaga. (Disclaimer: también hay facultades de letras, departamentos de inglés... etc.).
Y buscando "Universidad"—con 61.700.000 resultados en Google—está la Universidad de Zaragoza en la novena página. La primera, la de Puerto Rico. La primera española (Politécnica de Madrid) en el 8º puesto y única de la la primera página. Hablamos del mundo hispa(no-)hablante, claro—en el cual aparece Harvard también cerca de los primeros puestos, la séptima.
To put on the piles, que vienen arreando.
PS: Aquí hay en PDF otra comparativa reciente sobre universidades españolas. Y según Ibercampus, en el ranking mundial de universidades de la Universidad de Shanghai, llega a colarse la Universidad de Zaragoza entre las 500 mejores del mundo... que no parece mucho decir:
"El equipo español comienza a puntuar a partir del puesto 170 de la lista gracias a la Universidad de Barcelona, que es la primera en aparecer. Pero no solo la catalana tiene el lujo de estar presente, ya que le siguen también la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de València, la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de València, la Universidad de Granada, la Universidad de Sevilla y, finalmente, la Universidad de Zaragoza."
En mejor lugar nos deja Google... aunque no he buscado en chino. Buscando "University OR Université OR Universidad OR Univesità OR Universitet OR Universtiät", resulta que Google España me da todos los primeros resultados de universidades españolas y en español... (toma ya) y Google.com me da todo universidades inglesas y americanas. Pero vete ya a fiar de ningún índice objetivo, claro.
Publicado en Quejas. com. José Ángel García Landa

(Nota enviada al Rincón de Opinión de la Universidad... a ver si aparece. Ahora ya he solventado el misterio de quién lo lleva en la práctica).
La Universidad nos ha hecho llegar hace poco un CD-ROM con librito-resumen, titulado "Innovación docente, Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación e Investigación Educativa en la Universidad de Zaragoza: Caminando hacia Europa". Dejando aparte la cuestión de que no tenemos por qué caminar hacia Europa porque llevamos allí toda nuestra vida, hay que hacer dos observaciones:
- Primero, agradecer a la Universidad la información que nos hace llegar y la planificación de estos programas de innovación docente; también vaya el agradecimiento a todos los que han contribuido con notable esfuerzo a una publicación que puede resultar muy útil.
- Segundo: Observar que los documentos en el CD-ROM están desordenados, y no se corresponde su orden ni con el del índice del propio CD-ROM ni con el del librito adjunto. Con lo cual cuesta muchísimo tiempo encontrar el documento que se busca: hay muchísimos. También se hubiera agradecido una selección previa o clasificación destacada (aunque se prestase a críticas) de los trabajos más innovadores o de interés general a juicio de quienes han editado este trabajo. Hay demasiadas cosas por leer en el mundo.
Como mínimo, para permitir el uso de este trabajo, creo que habría que desfacer el entuerto, que los responsables hiciesen el índice como es debido y nos lo pasasen al personal docente e investigador por correo electrónico, en plan fe de erratas. Gracias.
Por cierto, hablando de ponerse las pilas: un resultado interesante de búsqueda en Google. Buscando "Facultad de Filosofía y Letras" (926.000 resultados) aparece la de Zaragoza en los primeros puestos—ahora la tercera, detrás de la de Buenos Aires y la de México, hace un rato la segunda. Creo que es inmerecido, sinceramente, un puesto tan encumbrado.
Buscando "Departamento de Filología Inglesa" (45.400 resultados) aparece (hoy) nuestro Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana en el último puesto de la primera página—uf. Aparecen antes Granada, la Autónoma de Madrid, la Complutense, la de Jaén, la de Granada, la de Salamanca, la de Alicante, la del País Vasco y la de Málaga. (Disclaimer: también hay facultades de letras, departamentos de inglés... etc.).
Y buscando "Universidad"—con 61.700.000 resultados en Google—está la Universidad de Zaragoza en la novena página. La primera, la de Puerto Rico. La primera española (Politécnica de Madrid) en el 8º puesto y única de la la primera página. Hablamos del mundo hispa(no-)hablante, claro—en el cual aparece Harvard también cerca de los primeros puestos, la séptima.
To put on the piles, que vienen arreando.
PS: Aquí hay en PDF otra comparativa reciente sobre universidades españolas. Y según Ibercampus, en el ranking mundial de universidades de la Universidad de Shanghai, llega a colarse la Universidad de Zaragoza entre las 500 mejores del mundo... que no parece mucho decir:
"El equipo español comienza a puntuar a partir del puesto 170 de la lista gracias a la Universidad de Barcelona, que es la primera en aparecer. Pero no solo la catalana tiene el lujo de estar presente, ya que le siguen también la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de València, la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de València, la Universidad de Granada, la Universidad de Sevilla y, finalmente, la Universidad de Zaragoza."
En mejor lugar nos deja Google... aunque no he buscado en chino. Buscando "University OR Université OR Universidad OR Univesità OR Universitet OR Universtiät", resulta que Google España me da todos los primeros resultados de universidades españolas y en español... (toma ya) y Google.com me da todo universidades inglesas y americanas. Pero vete ya a fiar de ningún índice objetivo, claro.
—oOo—
domingo, 24 de septiembre de 2017
Referendum "con garantías" ... a la catalana
El referéndum prometido por Putschdemón y sus secuaces para el 1-O se realizará, en efecto, con todas las garantías previstas, tal como viene prometiendo (sin que nadie lo detenga ni inhabilite) el delirante presidente de la Generalidad de Cataluña. Diga lo que diga Rajoy el referéndum se realizará y, es más, tendrá una victoria arrolladora del sí (sí a la independencia catalana y a su república bananera del Mediterráneo).
Y se realizará según previsto, pase lo que pase, porque en la ley del referéndum no había previsto ningún mínimo de participación para que fuese legítimo. Bueno, "legítimo." Pongan más: """""".
Es decir, no es que los nacionalistas catalanes, y sus corifeos socialistas y podemoides, y los rebaños silenciosos de Lérida y Gerona y Tarragona y Barcelona, se vayan a tragar la piedra de molino de un resultado falsario y minoritario. Es que ya se la han tragado por anticipado. Ya ha sucedido lo que podría suceder.
En cuanto a las voces críticas, Serrat —¡Serrat!— se ha atrevido a decir que este referéndum "no es transparente"—un hito del pensamiento crítico y de la osadía verbal frente a las autoridades. Podemos pensar, por simplificar, que representa Serrat a la Cataluña media que pone objeciones al nacismo catalán éste. Y no lo ve claro, Serrat.
Transparencia no es que falte; más bien está todo muy clarito. Putschdemón puede votar en el salón de su casa, ante el "acoso del Estat", y proclamar que ha habido un mínimo de participación en la única urna que tenía todas las garantías del Estat Catalá. Y no será eso contradictorio con lo prometido, sino estrictamente acorde con la letra de la ley. "Ley" catalana.
Ésa es la medida del delirio catalán, por muchas firmas que se recojan llamando a dialogar con estos dementes fascistas—y con los insensatos que hablan a su favor.
Éste es el nivel. Así que ojo.
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Retropost #1798 (24 de septiembre de 2007): Future Narratives
Future narratives
Publicado en Literatura y crítica. com. José Ángel García Landa

A question sent today to the Narrative-L:
Dear members of the Narrative List:
No real reason for this question, except for intellectual curiosity and a wish to get the list going after the summer. I find that the threads here are often welcome by people who bring to them, and perhaps extract from them, issues related to their own concerns; so getting associations of ideas going is a good thing for many of us... Take it as an excuse, then. My question is:
Can you think of any instances of people (writers, etc.) who have imagined, and perhaps thus helped to bring into existence, new narrative forms, genres or media? E.g. did anyone imagine film before film? (This brings to mind Aldous Huxley's virtual reality films in Brave New World, and Matrix-like transmissions of virtual reality programmes are imagined by Olaf Stapledon in Star Maker).
I've just begun William Gibson's Spook Country and he invents there (I expect they're invented, one never knows) a subculture of artists who recreate famous celebrity events in California (or elsewhere) with virtual reality technology, on the very spot where they took place. That's just an example.
Did anyone imagine the upsurge of fan fiction on the web before it happened?
Has anyone invented a narrative form based on, say, the tracks left by our searches using Google? Or is anyone doing complex multimedia narratives on the Web, combining text, images, video, sound... or is that just a plain old blog?
Or better, none of the above—anything I am unable to even think just now, because it is a kind of narrative that doesn't exist yet, and perhaps never will, but which has been imagined in a suggestive way by some recent science-fiction writer or filmmaker?
Jose Angel García Landa
http://www.garcialanda.net
I find that the issue of "the imagination of future narrative" or "future communication" if you want is well worth pursuing, as it promises to hold complex unfoldings and interesting interactions.
By way of interaction between list and blog, I paste here my queries (sometimes some of the most intriguing answers) so as to provide a date or anchoring point, I classify a bibliographical record of the entry, and keep the whole thread in my mail folder for imaginary future use.
(Today's example of retrofuturistic technology: The Opening Books project).
FROM THE ANSWERS:
Christy Dena on Sept. 24:
Great questions Jose!
I'll tackle some. Apologies in advance for the references to my own sites and research -- I'm adding them here in case someone finds them helpful or interesting.
One question was whether narratives have been based on/created (?) by Google searches etc? Just about every single technology on the web and beyond has been employed for storytelling (but more for artworks) now. There is blogfiction, botfiction, SMS fiction, MMS fiction, mobile stories, online comics, search fictions, email fictions and so on. I have a listing of some links on my del.icio.us site (which needs updating):
http://del.icio.us/new_media_arts
There are some search fictions listed here:
http://del.icio.us/New_Media_Arts/Creative_searchfiction
There are also programs being created specifically for online experimentation (non-artificial intelligence) with storytelling. Some programs are covered here in my post at WRT:
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2007/04/28/ficlets-literary-lego/
I have another question to add to your one about narratives imagined but not materialized yet. I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas whether the following type of emerging narrative has been prefigured:
I'm researching what I've been calling 'polymorphic narratives' -- which are narratives that are spread across media platforms. A story, for instance, begins in print form and continues on the web. This is a subset of my larger research which is into what media theorist Henry Jenkins has called 'transmedia storytelling'. Judging by the descriptions Jenkins gives, he is actually referring to a transmedia series. A polymorphic narrative is not a series (it is not episodic): they are the equivalent of paragraphs distributed across media platforms. I'd love to hear if anyone has some ideas on this form being imagined.
Emma Kafalenos on Sept. 24
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Cortazar in his story translated as "Blow-Up"? (But not Antonioni's film of the same title.)
Artworks in one medium that embed artworks conceived as in another medium (whether represented in the other medium or in the medium of the containing artwork--e.g., through ekphrasis) seem to have the power to represent art forms not yet in existence. That is not to say that the writer or artist necessarily foresaw the later development.
My essay "The Power of Double Coding to Represent New Forms of Representation: The Truman Show, Dorian Gray, "Blow-Up," and Whistler's Caprice in Purple and Gold" (Poetics Today 24, 1 [Spring 2003]: 1-33) might be of interest.
Peggy Phelan on Sept. 25:
Thanks Emma for recalling the point about new genres and media within Jose's question. "Machinima" (sometimes spelled machinema) is perhaps one of the most interesting new genres to have emerged from the underbelly of video gaming. Basically, this genre makes use of code from games that has multiple functions but cannot be accessed through the game itself. This 'superfluous' code is then re-programmed into new narratives and new web-based films and visual art. Interestingly, some of the re-coding can be done in live performances, and this in turn creates a new kind of performance art - -so far, all collaborative and interactive. Audiences scream out directions to programmers who are "improving" new code from the stream of code that is being recycled and refashioned from the gaming code. As someone primarily interested in live art and not code, I find the performances sort of transfixing because they are sort of mesmerizingly awkward, 'naive,' and even 'dumb' in terms of narrative complexity or dramatic arc. And yet there is no doubt that they are completely absorbing performances --combining elements of sampling from hip-hop, old school improv techniques, and new media savvy in re: to gaming and coding. And the frenzy with which the directions are thrown out from the audience is something to behold. The best re-programmers are those who can quickly meld one direction into another, and this requires, among other things, adroit fingers, typing, and so on. There are now 'teams' and 'stars' as in sports events.
Here is a wiki link for those who would like a more detailed (and probably more accurate) description of the recycled code etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
My answer to the list, Sept. 25:
Thank you all for so many interesting answers!
Concerning Christy's question about "polymorphic" narratives—i.e. "spread across multiple media platforms", I suppose one obvious source would be the very existence of narratives (e.g. classical myths) which give rise to multimedia representations, say, pictures of Odysseus or narratives about Odysseus. It is a short (and long) step from that to the use of different media platforms to articulate a single work of art by one artist. Long, because although other connective strategies may be easily devised (and perhaps have been used? any suggestions here?) one seems to need a form unified in a digital sequence with multimedia capacity before this kind of work becomes manageable or mainstream. Although perhaps part of what is suggested in the word "spread out" used by Christy refers to a much more disjointed or "distributed" narrative—the kind of thing Jill Walker has been writing on? One thinks of William Gibson's cult videos in Pattern Recognition being disseminated across different websites... but then that was only video (which can be multimedia in itself, to be sure). Or an Amélie-like strategy for urban narrative made of clues taking you from one piece of the artwork to the next? Anyway, one major issue, apart from the nature of the pieces spread across multiple media platforms, would seem to be the thread that links them together, or the frame which holds them together: either a unified, marketable object in digital form, or an experiential sequence to be tracked out in different places and disconnected media. Or things in between. But I must look closer into Christy's del.icio.us collection before indulging any further in random musings and speculations.
Publicado en Literatura y crítica. com. José Ángel García Landa

A question sent today to the Narrative-L:
Dear members of the Narrative List:
No real reason for this question, except for intellectual curiosity and a wish to get the list going after the summer. I find that the threads here are often welcome by people who bring to them, and perhaps extract from them, issues related to their own concerns; so getting associations of ideas going is a good thing for many of us... Take it as an excuse, then. My question is:
Can you think of any instances of people (writers, etc.) who have imagined, and perhaps thus helped to bring into existence, new narrative forms, genres or media? E.g. did anyone imagine film before film? (This brings to mind Aldous Huxley's virtual reality films in Brave New World, and Matrix-like transmissions of virtual reality programmes are imagined by Olaf Stapledon in Star Maker).
I've just begun William Gibson's Spook Country and he invents there (I expect they're invented, one never knows) a subculture of artists who recreate famous celebrity events in California (or elsewhere) with virtual reality technology, on the very spot where they took place. That's just an example.
Did anyone imagine the upsurge of fan fiction on the web before it happened?
Has anyone invented a narrative form based on, say, the tracks left by our searches using Google? Or is anyone doing complex multimedia narratives on the Web, combining text, images, video, sound... or is that just a plain old blog?
Or better, none of the above—anything I am unable to even think just now, because it is a kind of narrative that doesn't exist yet, and perhaps never will, but which has been imagined in a suggestive way by some recent science-fiction writer or filmmaker?
Jose Angel García Landa
http://www.garcialanda.net
I find that the issue of "the imagination of future narrative" or "future communication" if you want is well worth pursuing, as it promises to hold complex unfoldings and interesting interactions.
By way of interaction between list and blog, I paste here my queries (sometimes some of the most intriguing answers) so as to provide a date or anchoring point, I classify a bibliographical record of the entry, and keep the whole thread in my mail folder for imaginary future use.
(Today's example of retrofuturistic technology: The Opening Books project).
FROM THE ANSWERS:
Christy Dena on Sept. 24:
Great questions Jose!
I'll tackle some. Apologies in advance for the references to my own sites and research -- I'm adding them here in case someone finds them helpful or interesting.
One question was whether narratives have been based on/created (?) by Google searches etc? Just about every single technology on the web and beyond has been employed for storytelling (but more for artworks) now. There is blogfiction, botfiction, SMS fiction, MMS fiction, mobile stories, online comics, search fictions, email fictions and so on. I have a listing of some links on my del.icio.us site (which needs updating):
http://del.icio.us/new_media_arts
There are some search fictions listed here:
http://del.icio.us/New_Media_Arts/Creative_searchfiction
There are also programs being created specifically for online experimentation (non-artificial intelligence) with storytelling. Some programs are covered here in my post at WRT:
http://writerresponsetheory.org/wordpress/2007/04/28/ficlets-literary-lego/
I have another question to add to your one about narratives imagined but not materialized yet. I'd like to know if anyone has any ideas whether the following type of emerging narrative has been prefigured:
I'm researching what I've been calling 'polymorphic narratives' -- which are narratives that are spread across media platforms. A story, for instance, begins in print form and continues on the web. This is a subset of my larger research which is into what media theorist Henry Jenkins has called 'transmedia storytelling'. Judging by the descriptions Jenkins gives, he is actually referring to a transmedia series. A polymorphic narrative is not a series (it is not episodic): they are the equivalent of paragraphs distributed across media platforms. I'd love to hear if anyone has some ideas on this form being imagined.
Emma Kafalenos on Sept. 24
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Cortazar in his story translated as "Blow-Up"? (But not Antonioni's film of the same title.)
Artworks in one medium that embed artworks conceived as in another medium (whether represented in the other medium or in the medium of the containing artwork--e.g., through ekphrasis) seem to have the power to represent art forms not yet in existence. That is not to say that the writer or artist necessarily foresaw the later development.
My essay "The Power of Double Coding to Represent New Forms of Representation: The Truman Show, Dorian Gray, "Blow-Up," and Whistler's Caprice in Purple and Gold" (Poetics Today 24, 1 [Spring 2003]: 1-33) might be of interest.
Peggy Phelan on Sept. 25:
Thanks Emma for recalling the point about new genres and media within Jose's question. "Machinima" (sometimes spelled machinema) is perhaps one of the most interesting new genres to have emerged from the underbelly of video gaming. Basically, this genre makes use of code from games that has multiple functions but cannot be accessed through the game itself. This 'superfluous' code is then re-programmed into new narratives and new web-based films and visual art. Interestingly, some of the re-coding can be done in live performances, and this in turn creates a new kind of performance art - -so far, all collaborative and interactive. Audiences scream out directions to programmers who are "improving" new code from the stream of code that is being recycled and refashioned from the gaming code. As someone primarily interested in live art and not code, I find the performances sort of transfixing because they are sort of mesmerizingly awkward, 'naive,' and even 'dumb' in terms of narrative complexity or dramatic arc. And yet there is no doubt that they are completely absorbing performances --combining elements of sampling from hip-hop, old school improv techniques, and new media savvy in re: to gaming and coding. And the frenzy with which the directions are thrown out from the audience is something to behold. The best re-programmers are those who can quickly meld one direction into another, and this requires, among other things, adroit fingers, typing, and so on. There are now 'teams' and 'stars' as in sports events.
Here is a wiki link for those who would like a more detailed (and probably more accurate) description of the recycled code etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
My answer to the list, Sept. 25:
Thank you all for so many interesting answers!
Concerning Christy's question about "polymorphic" narratives—i.e. "spread across multiple media platforms", I suppose one obvious source would be the very existence of narratives (e.g. classical myths) which give rise to multimedia representations, say, pictures of Odysseus or narratives about Odysseus. It is a short (and long) step from that to the use of different media platforms to articulate a single work of art by one artist. Long, because although other connective strategies may be easily devised (and perhaps have been used? any suggestions here?) one seems to need a form unified in a digital sequence with multimedia capacity before this kind of work becomes manageable or mainstream. Although perhaps part of what is suggested in the word "spread out" used by Christy refers to a much more disjointed or "distributed" narrative—the kind of thing Jill Walker has been writing on? One thinks of William Gibson's cult videos in Pattern Recognition being disseminated across different websites... but then that was only video (which can be multimedia in itself, to be sure). Or an Amélie-like strategy for urban narrative made of clues taking you from one piece of the artwork to the next? Anyway, one major issue, apart from the nature of the pieces spread across multiple media platforms, would seem to be the thread that links them together, or the frame which holds them together: either a unified, marketable object in digital form, or an experiential sequence to be tracked out in different places and disconnected media. Or things in between. But I must look closer into Christy's del.icio.us collection before indulging any further in random musings and speculations.
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Retrpost #1797 (24 de septiembre de 2007): Serie Spanish Perspectives
Serie Spanish Perspectives
Publicado en Filología Inglesa. com. José Ángel García Landa

Sale el volumen número uno de la nueva serie de estudios Filología Inglesa coeditada por la Dra. Penas para Peter Lang: "Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture". Los editores de la serie son María José Álvarez-Faedo, Manuel Brito, Andrew Monnickendam y Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez. Y este primer volumen es de Juan Jesús Zaro, de la Universidad de Málaga: Shakespeare y sus traductores: Análisis crítico de siete traducciones españolas de obras de Shakespeare. (Bern - Berlin - Bruxelles - Frankfurt am Main - New York - Oxford -Wien: Peter Lang, 2007). Enhorabuena al inaugurador y a los coeditores.
Publicado en Filología Inglesa. com. José Ángel García Landa

Sale el volumen número uno de la nueva serie de estudios Filología Inglesa coeditada por la Dra. Penas para Peter Lang: "Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture". Los editores de la serie son María José Álvarez-Faedo, Manuel Brito, Andrew Monnickendam y Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez. Y este primer volumen es de Juan Jesús Zaro, de la Universidad de Málaga: Shakespeare y sus traductores: Análisis crítico de siete traducciones españolas de obras de Shakespeare. (Bern - Berlin - Bruxelles - Frankfurt am Main - New York - Oxford -Wien: Peter Lang, 2007). Enhorabuena al inaugurador y a los coeditores.
Etiquetas: Filología_inglesa, Publicaciones
Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-forg'd 'Carceri', in a Nutshell
Michel de Montaigne's subjectivism and
relativism is memorably formulated in his essay "That the relish for
good and evil depends in great measure upon the opinion we have of
them" (Essays I.XL), a reflection that must have influenced
Shakespeare. Here we point out the origins of modern constructivist
theories of reality in Montaigne's questioning of a common world of
evaluations and perceptions in this essay—with some incidental
commentary on the insights on relativism and constructivism afforded by
Shakespeare himself, and by William Blake as well. The relativization
of reality resulting from differences in perception, and the
intensification of reality-generating processes resulting from the
peculiarities of human nature, are crucial tenets of modern
phenomenological anthropology, but we should recognize their intellectual
debts to the ground-breaking insights of Montaigne and
Shakespeare:
Suggested Citation:
5 Pages Posted:
20 Sep 2017
Jose Angel
Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza
Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Prisons
and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-Forg'd 'Carceri', in a Nutshell (April 29,
2017). Ibercampus (April 29, 2017)
. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3038340
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_____. "Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-Forg'd Carceri, in a Nutshell." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 24 Sept. 2017.*
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2017
_____. "Prisons and Worlds of the Mind: Mind-Forg'd Carceri, in a Nutshell." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 5 Jan. 2023.*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/prisonsandworlds.pdf
2022
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De vampiros y otros muertos vivientes
Pongo un comentario sobre vampiros, zombis y otros muertos vivientes en The Joys of Teaching Literature:
The living dead, the actual ones, in all their versions, are more scary even than the fictional ones. And we seem to be getting more and more varieties of them as technology of artificial life-in-death progresses. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up being one of them, one of those abject things between life and death that nobody will want to touch.
The living dead, the actual ones, in all their versions, are more scary even than the fictional ones. And we seem to be getting more and more varieties of them as technology of artificial life-in-death progresses. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up being one of them, one of those abject things between life and death that nobody will want to touch.
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sábado, 23 de septiembre de 2017
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