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Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

March 9 2010, 4:35pm | Comments

Blog Post 3quarksdaily Prize : Vote for me

March 1 2010, 4:27am | Comments

Link Technologies of Culture: The Archive

"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new…

February 24 2010, 8:38am | Comments

Metafilter Sacrifice, speech, writing and art Sacrifice, speech, writing and art: I am interested in the different ways in which a sacrifice, a sacrament, a spoken word and a written word act as signifiers.…

February 24 2010, 6:28am | Comments

Metafilter De-constructing 'code' (picking apart its assumptions) De-constructing 'code': I am looking for philosophical (from W. Benjamin through to post-structuralism and beyond) examinations of 'code'. That both includes the assumptions contained in the word 'code'…

February 2 2010, 7:35am | Comments

Wikipedia Other The Other or constitutive other (also referred to as othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy, opposed to the Same. It refers, or attempts to refer, to…

January 26 2010, 2:48pm | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments

Link When the Meganovel Shrank

It seems significant, somehow, that Infinite Jest—the big buzzy signature meganovel of the nineties—was set at the end of the aughts. Most of the book’s action appears to take place…

January 8 2010, 6:21am | Comments

Link Evidence of Everything Exploding

A surreal webgame, littered with explosive potentialities. Help the arrow escape influential pages from historical art movements.

January 5 2010, 8:54am | Comments

Link We have a message from another world

In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he…

December 11 2009, 5:11pm | Comments

Link A reader’s guide to the art of science

There is something stirring in the world of science writing. Since it emerged as a labelled corner of the bookshop, the genre has been dominated by practising scientists who also…

December 7 2009, 6:07pm | Comments

Link How we read: an investigation

A classical, although often implicit, view in social science is that the human brain, unlike that of other animals, is a learning machine which can adapt to essentially any novel…

November 23 2009, 8:55am | Comments

Link How Google Wave is Changing the News

It’s not too often that legacy media learns a new mass communication tool along with its audience. But that’s exactly what’s going on now because of Google Wave. Although it’s…

November 23 2009, 6:17am | Comments

Link A Certain Realism: 'The Known Unknowns' - 4…

The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel…

November 21 2009, 5:45am | Comments

Link Whitechapel - Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing

Saturday 21 November, 6pm Until 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings…

November 21 2009, 5:43am | Comments

Link IMG MGMT: Hubris/Nemesis/Whatever

Another binary myth fundamental to Western culture is the eternally popular hubris/nemesis complex. According to this idea, those who transgress against the natural order always get their just desserts. Hubris…

November 13 2009, 5:22pm | Comments

Link keytweeter

A twitter user who logs and archives every key he presses on his computer keyboard: 39doc↵of↵↓↵↓↵↓↵ar↓↵it was runningoh ok↵this morning the code i was writing↵last night i mentioned it was…

November 10 2009, 2:26pm | Comments

Writing from 3quarksdaily Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects

November 1 2009, 10:02pm | Comments

Metafilter Innovative Book Designs Innovative Books: I am looking to compile a list of the most innovative uses of the book format. Books that break the mould in their layout and design,…

November 1 2009, 5:37am | Comments

Link Luis Camnitzer, ALPHABETIZATION, Part Two: Hegemonic Language and…

In all the traditional approaches to pedagogy, both in art and in literacy, the possibility of perceiving the transitional nature of the space produced by text or image—the common space…

October 27 2009, 11:51am | Comments

Link 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments

Link Serpentine Gallery: Poetry Marathon - Saturday and Sunday,…

Tickets £25/£20 (two day) £15/£10 (one day) Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk or Ticketweb: 08444 77 1000 www.ticketweb.co.uk The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 is an open-air structure, so please…

October 15 2009, 8:04am | Comments

Link On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of…

We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over…

October 12 2009, 9:56am | Comments

Link The Origin of the Work of Art

In his article, Heidegger explains the essence of art in terms of the concepts of being and truth. He argues that art is not only a way of expressing the…

October 8 2009, 9:35am | Comments

Link Posthumous Novels by Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace…

After author David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, his longtime agent, Bonnie Nadell, found herself lost in a maze of words. Scattered on two different computers and in hard…

October 8 2009, 9:05am | Comments

Link Is the Internet melting our brains?

By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a…

September 28 2009, 9:01am | Comments

Link Fictional Stimulus

Fictional Stimulus is a reading experience for people who like books and are curious about the future of literature in the digital world. It's an introductory taster for those new…

September 28 2009, 8:54am | Comments

Link HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

Though you’ll still have to do your writing using the old fashioned method — one word at a time — web applications and social media have made the process of…

September 17 2009, 12:27am | Comments

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