Toussaint

Fifteenth Amendment

Peonage slavery

the modern novel first arises not as an autonomous development but as a compromise between a western formal influence (usually French or English) and local materials.

we know how to read texts, now let’s learn how not to read them

: you invest so much in individual texts only if you think that very few of them really matter.

to the distance from the text

taking an explanatory matrix from social history and applying it to literary history.

A new “science” emerges where a new problem is pursued by a new method

This is in opposition to the then-popular New Criticism, which advocated texts as self-contained and self-referential objects that could be removed from their contexts of production and readership

Do you really think Apple doesn't know? In a company obsessed with the details

And Foxconn security went out, scooped him up, and beat him before releasing him.

He took this fact that we all already know, this fact that our stuff is made overseas in maybe not the greatest working conditions, and he made the audience actually feel something about that fact.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it.

The greatest trick the videogame industry ever pulled was convincing the world that videogames were games in the first place.

The seeing machine was once a sort of dark room into which individuals spied; it has become a transparent building in which the exercise of power may be supervised by society as a whole

a simple idea in architecture

The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power

making certain children believe that two and two do not make four or that the moon is a cheese, then put them together when they are twenty or twenty-five years old; one would then have discussions that would be worth a great deal more than the sermons or lectures on which so much money is spent; one would have at least an opportunity of making discoveries in the domain of metaphysics

He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.

Visibility is a trap.

if they are schoolchildren

The constant division between the normal and the abnormal, to which every individual is subjected, brings us back to our own time, by applying the binary branding and exile of the leper to quite different objects; the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring, supervising and correcting the abnormal brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms to which the fear of the plague gave rise.

What other games, game forms and game elements do they draw on? What player skills from other games will transfer to this game? How exactly is the game played, with how many people, doing what sorts of things? Also, what programming language was the game written in, using what sort of development process? How many people were involved in designing and producing it, and what earlier code was directly incorporated or otherwise re-used? How does the game play with or against the platform on which it was implemented and the history of programming on that platform?

Combat might somehow be tortured into confessing a story, but what it mainly does is facilitate a particular type of competition, providing an apparatus and context for play, a computer-mediated way of interacting with another player rather than a digital vehicle for an expressive message

This is the technological factor that most directly accounts for the horizontal symmetry of the playing field in Combat. An idea of a fair playing field was no doubt the basis for this hardware decision in the first place

the wood-grain plastic front of the case �" the design of which is imitated in the Flashback 2.0 �" made it seem, at the time of its release, more like a piece of furniture or a stereo component than like some piece of esoteric hobbyist electronics, such as a HAM radio or one of the Altair microcomputers that were available before the VCS.

a model that distinguishes five levels

by being bundled with the VCS originally it helped to assert that play involving several people was the ordinary use of this system.

the cartridge

domestic image

human specificity, the way enactments of power fall upon certain types of bodies more than others.

The novel media technologies employed contribute to the sense that the games pose a new, unique threat and helps sever them from earlier games in public discourse.

Atari's Gotcha (1973) had caused a bit of a kerfuffle several years earlier owing to its pair of round pink rubber controllers which looked a bit too much like breasts for the comfort of some critics – especially since the controllers had to be squeezed to operate the game.

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laim that ꞌinteractiveꞌ video games present special problems, in that the player participates in the violent action on screen and determines its outcome

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The Peripheral

The Peripheral

Digital Methodology Project

the Video Computer System was manufactured in Sunnyvale, California

move to compete directly with the Channel F, Atari named the machine the Video Computer System (or VCS for short), as the Channel F

$804 adjusted for inflation

Nachträglichkeit

manqué

move forward and backward in the text

gles, like wate

anovelthatrelishesaprintfetishwhilerevealinghowliteratureanditsreadersencounterandevolveinrelationtodigitalmedia.

Produced by inscription technologies, technotexts construct their materialities so as to foreground the inscription technologies that produce them

which like the index of Nabokov's Pale Fire turns out to be an encrypted pseudonarrative of its own

but filled with light blue color

To develop this point as vividly as possible, I will enter the hermeneutic circle by considering first nonverbal marks, working out from there to their interplay with words and the resulting active construction of the book's materiality.

My face has been splattered with purple, as have my arms, granting contrast, and thus defining me, marking me, and at least for the moment, preserving me

The unreliable narrator, a literary invention foregrounding the role of consciousness in constructing reality, has here given way to the remediated narrator, a literary invention foregrounding a proliferation of inscription technologies that evacuate consciousness as the source of production and recover in its place a mediated subjectivity that cannot be conceived as an independent entity

second, it recuperates the vitality of the novel as a genre by recovering, through the processes of remediation, subjectivities coherent enough to become the foci of the sustained narration that remains the hallmark of the print novel

First, it extends the claims of the print book by showing what print can be in a digital age

Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day

It will not be art, it is true, but at least it will be life, natural under all its make-up, clear, precise, and sometimes even cruel.

The Author Exploiting his Own Works

and even there the writing-machine, by that time fully developed, will probably suffice for all needs.

a tax of four or five cents for an hour's 'hearing,' and the fees of the wandering author will be relatively important by the multiplicity of hearings furnished to each house in the same quarter.

there will then be fountains of literature in the streets as there are now hydrants.

clamists

the exchange of commonplace conversation, the joyful exclamations of assembled crowds, the dialects of strange people.

The Author Making Cylinders of his Own Works

'What a charming writer!' All shuddering with emotion, they will sigh, 'Ah, how this "Teller's" voice thrills you, charms you, moves you! What adorable low tones, what heart-rending accents of love! When you hear his voice you are fairly exhausted with emotion. There is no ravisher of the ear like him!

fluent current ingeniously set in action

the indolence and selfishness of men

the necessity of cutting the leaves

the cerebral phosphates

desuetude

suggestive models which at the pleasure of the operator shall express pain, surprise, dejection, terror, or death, all photopainting, in short, having become simply a question of a vast diversity of mechanical processes

landscape painters being ruined by photopainting

abstract art photography

saturated with pictures

And yet it is the duty of art, whether by music or poetry or painting, at any cost to carry us beyond ourselves, that for an instant at least we may hover in that sphere of the unreal where we may take the idealistic aëropathy cure.

trite copies of nature as seen with a photographer’s eye

scientific Fridays

Twilight burnings

Davinci Code was also burned earlier in the year

book burnings involving the Harry Potter franchise

But, what some people don’t know is that Farenheight 451 is based on a story called “The Fireman,” which in turn was based on a story named “Bright Phoenix.” “Bright Phoenix” was actually written in 1947, aligning the timing of the story with the early comic book burnings (and the now infamous Nazi book burnings in World War II).  And while it is a known fact that the title of the book refers to the temperature at which paper burns, I’ll bet it took a considerably lower ignition point to destroy the low quality paper used in comics in the forties.

Bible

the press of the New World

Cadmus

“O, my books, my books, my precious printed books!” reiterated the forlorn bookworm. “My only reality was a bound volume; and now they will not leave me even a shadowy pamphlet!”

so that I shall content myself with observing that it was not invariably the writer most frequent in the public mouth that made the most splendid appearance in the bonfire

how indefinite was the proportion between the physical mass of any given author and the property of brilliant and long-continued combustion

“If they can reach so high,” said I; “but that task requires a giant, who may afterwards distribute the light among inferior men. It is not every one that can steal the fire from heaven like Prometheus; but, when once he had done the deed, a thousand hearths were kindled by it.”

English standard authors

weight of dead men’s thought

who had dared to assume the privileges due only to Heaven’s better workmanship

"Mosses From An Old Manse"

Cadmus was credited by the ancient Greeks (Herodotus[4] is an example) with introducing the original alphabet to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.

Mr. Oldbuck's dream

but you will soon find it strangely peaceful and freeing

And in India, the most cost effective way to achieve that is slavery.

See the little girl playing with the hammer?” asked a local investigator. “Along with the child, the size of the hammer grows, and that’s the only progress in her life.”

A tub had caught all --ha! ha!

hearkening to the death watches in the wall

WhenawomanisagueststaronStarTrek,nineoutofteniimesthereissomethingwrongwithher

eavilyuponthetypesofinterpretivestrategiesmorecommontothefemininethantothemasculine.

Inthisessay,Iproposeanalternativeapproachtofanexperience,onethatperceives“Trekkers”(astheyprefertobecalled)notasculturaldupes,socialmisfits,ormindlessconsumersbutratheras,indeCerteau’sterm,“poachers”oftextualmeanings.

“The biggest thing for years,” said Holmes. “We have two hours before we need think of starting. I think we might employ it in getting some dinner and then, Lestrade, we will take the London fog out of your throat by giving you a breath of the pure night air of Dartmoor. Never been there? Ah, well, I don’t suppose you will forget your first visit.”

“The biggest thing for years,” said Holmes. “We have two hours before we need think of starting. I think we might employ it in getting some dinner and then, Lestrade, we will take the London fog out of your throat by giving you a breath of the pure night air of Dartmoor. Never been there? Ah, well, I don’t suppose you will forget your first visit.”

There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.

We will be gathering, we global warming skeptics

Describing himself as a “skeptic,” not a denier – “that is a word meant to put me down” – the veteran weather forecaster told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that the news network was promoting an inaccurate view on the issue.

In a series of tweets and emails he sent to Al Gore

Traditionally, approval rating polls are conducted among all adults, so those are probably better for making historical comparisons. And there’s something to be said for inclusivity if your goal is to assess the extent to which Trump has a mandate with the public. He is, after all, the president of all Americans and not just those who are registered to vote or who do so regularly. But for forward-looking, predictive purposes — to assess the effect that Trump will have on the midterms, for instance — the voter-based polls are probably more useful.

The danger of asking the “truthfulness” question first is that everybody has some bias. So it quickly becomes very easy for a reader to eliminate credible sources because “of course they would say that, wouldn’t they?”

In the Congo today, just as in America not long ago, there is yet another way

The frictionless genius of our creative class, which we see every day in our lives and in advertising, leads us to support environmental destruction and human enslavement that we never see.

Do you really think Apple doesn't know? In a company obsessed with the details-- with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case-- do you really think it's credible that they don't know?

It is not creative labor, nor is it free. It is fascinating that, during a pivotal moment in early computing history, the industry’s foremost electron-ics company represented it that way.

However, if we look inside computing hardware, we will not see dancing bunny-suited clean room work-ers, happily making chips for free.

the material conditions that are usually invisible to the user and are necessary for digital media device creation

Navajo women did not make circuits because their brains naturally “thought” in patterns of right-angle colors and shapes. They did not make them well because they had inherent Indian virtues such as stoicism, pride in crafts-womanship, or an inherent and inborn manual dexterity. And Fairchild did not employ Navajo women because of these traits. These traits were identified after the company learned about the tax incentives available to subsidize the project, the lack of unions and other employment options in the area, and the generous donation of heavy equipment given by the US government gratis as part of an incentive to develop “light industry” as an “occupational education” for Indians.

In this case, it can be seen how racialization—the understanding of a specific population as possessing traits and behaviors that belong to a race, not an individual—is a process, not a product

This is an eloquent illustration of how racialization works; prior beliefs about Indians as unreliable workers unsuited for modern form of labor are trans-formed into assertions of the positive value of “primitive” habits. This shift demonstrates the fluidity and mutability of gender and race stereotyping; Indians were described as careful, docile, and hardworking when it helped their managers to understand and explain productivity through an ethnic lens.

The immobility and vulnerability of the Navajo worker was rhetorically respun into an act of purposeful and care-driven cultural preservation on the part of the corporation

indigenous electronic workers at Shiprock were pressed into service as examples of the peaceful coexistence and integration of the past and the future, the primitive and the modern, creativity and capitalism. They were cited as evidence that digital work—the work of the hand and its digits—could be painlessly trans-ferred from the indigenous cultural context into the world of technological commercial innovation, benefiting both in the process.

immigrant women of color were hailed as the ideal workforce because they were mobile, cheap, and above all, flexible; they could be laid off at any time and could not move to look for al-ternative forms of work, while their employers could close plants and reopen them in locales with the most favorable conditions

Indian-identified traits and practices such as painstaking attention to craft and an affinity for metalwork and textiles were deployed to position the Navajo on the cutting edge of a technological moment precisely because of their possession of a racialized set of creative cultural skills in traditional, premodern artisanal handwork

avajo workers were always represented as different from white workers, as possessing innate racial and cultural traits that could be enhanced or rehabilitated to produce chips accurately, quickly, and painlessly

We were really screwing up the whole societal structure at the Indian tribe. You know, the women were making money and the guys were drinking it up and it was a failure.

between 1965 and 1975

American my-thologies around Indianness gave these workers a desirable identity as culturally foreign yet familiar

$6,000 a month

The code aesthetics of light, however, occur at the disjunction between the player’s mental model of the code as it is expected to be (“If I LOOK in a place, an object is either there or not, and if it is there, a description of the object will be printed”) and the reality of the code as it actually functions. The implied code is wrong, and the virtual light entering the player’s imaginary eye is to be mistrusted, if for no other reason than that the actual code is unconventional: what is seen is not always what is modeled, and what is modeled is not always seen.

However, understanding of the work is advanced by reading these messages; indeed, trying to interact and failing is necessary, as their poetic menace puts much of the coming experience in context.

playing the Text as one plays a game, he searches for a practice that will re-produce the Text

it cannot be apprehended as part of a hierarchy or even a simple division of genres

Marxism, Freudianism

phenomenal existence

a traversal [traversee]: it can cut across a work, several works.

The Text is not the decomposition of the work; rather it is the work that is the text's imaginary tail

In opposition to the notion of the work--a traditional notion that has long been and still is thought of in what might be called Newtonian fashion--there now arises a need for a new object, one obtained by the displacement or overturning of previous categories. This object is the Text.

epistemological shift

The promise of patent is this

Might not these currents be intercepted

her fingers

new forms of encyclopedias

the head of the trail

Poulsen long ago put speech on a magnetic wire.

grew like Topsy

A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot

His hands are free, and he is not anchored

Combine these two elements, let the Vocoder run the stenotype, and the result is a machine which types when talked to.

A girl strokes its keys languidly

someone may speed it up

The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop.

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it

the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item

evidence-based foundation that draws from the learning sciences

This can unintentionally present higher education as easily available to everyone, located in a specific place, taking place formally over discrete periods of time, and mostly optional for workforce advancement and may also cause us to overlook and undervalue learning experiences that occur apart from discrete, formal institutional experiences.

chearful look'd the God

rapes belief

the bride

saffron

So at the same time that UI research addressed itself to the problem of giving humans access to a seemingly impersonal, technically unwelcoming realm, it also shaped that interaction toward particular use cases and has invited us to accept what the machine serves up as given, natural, and beyond our ability to change outside prescribed bounds.

But when we begin thinking of GUI design as applied epistemology, it quickly becomes clear that visual metaphors do not eliminate abstraction but rather substitute one kind of abstraction for another, one representation scheme for another.

And behind all the uproar was silence - the silence which is the voice of the earth and of the generations who have gone.

the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit.

"No personal complaints are received by the Central Committee," the Committee of the Mending Apparatus replied. "Through whom am I to make my complaint, then?" "Through us." "I complain then."

The troubles began quietly, long before she was conscious of them.

The Central Committee announced the developments, it is true, but they were no more the cause of them than were the kings of the imperialistic period the cause of war.

"The Machine," they exclaimed, "feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.

which you may employ most profitably in your daily lives

Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought LafcadioHearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.

forests had been destroyed during the literature epoch for the purpose of making newspaper-pulp,

all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

Think of her as without teeth or hair.

the button that produced literature

Great men, but men

fifteen seconds

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