February 2012
6 posts
“There’s no demonstration of life’s futility or language’s emptiness that is so...”
– Fail Worse – The New Inquiry
Dashboard/Reader folks: I’m trying out some new formatting business here, so my last post is a little funky formatting-wise. It probably makes more sense if you click through than if you view it in-dash or in-feed.
The dialogic book-fort.
I want the line between text and hypertext to blur. I want my books as portable as texts online and I want my online texts as faithful and tangible as paper and ink. I want to copy and paste paragraphs from paper — I want to look up words and cross-reference sentences. For that, even online texts still behave too much like paper.
*“I start every dance with a box…The box documents the active...
Can critical theory be done online?
Obviously, but how does it look? How do we know what it is? How is it fostered and presented? The LA Review of Books and The New Inquiry seem to be taking a valiant stab at it. From the LA Review of Books’ interview with Rachel Rosenfelt of The New Inquiry:
Do you think there’s a kind of criticism that is more suited to the internet than to print?
It depends on how you define...
