CLASS FOUR BLOG POSTS

THOUGHTS ON THE NEW MEDIA READER READINGzzz:

147- 176: Six Selections by the Oulipo

- The Oulipo stands for "Ouvroir de Litterature Potentille" or rather "Workshop for Potential Literature"

- This is seen as a "knitting circle" for writers resulting in not literature but potential literature

- The result is a fun mix of elegantly crafted phrases with an air of randomness while retaining a cohesive quality. From the pages of excerpts you do get the sense that these are writers playing with one another on the page.

183-189

Prose and Anticombinatorics by Italo Calvino

- Idea of Anticombinatory character is that when "among a larger number of possibilities, the computer selects those few realizations compatible with certain constraints"

THOUGHTS ON THREE THINGS DEMO-ED IN OUR CLASS:

We read THIS wonderful article, on the possibility of neutrinos being able to travel faster than the speed of light-- not true it turns out, back to work scientists.

Use THIS website/labyrinth of genres for a fun way to find new music!

Or if you want to do none of that, get into a psychedelic mood and watch THIS music video by Blockhead