10/08/2008

About not dissertating

I need to work on my blank verse chapter and get started on my synaesthesia chapter. I haven't read a thing from my working bibl for said synaesthesia chapter, but I did write this down the other day: Webster's The White Devil presents a strikingly posthumanist scenario in which people are unable to ENCOUNTER events that have HAPPENED, events that they seemingly should have direct, personal access to.

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07/31/2008

Epic win or epic fail?

Search terms that do not produce any results in the MLA International Database: 1. technological determinism AND Shakespeare 2. technological determinism AND Marlowe 3. technological determinism AND English Renaissance 4. McLuhan AND Marlowe 5. McLuhan AND English Renaissance 6. McLuhan AND Early Modern 7. Kittler AND Marlowe 8. Kittler AND English Renaissance 9. Kittler AND Early Modern 10. technological determinism AND blank verse

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05/23/2008

Can I borrow a cup of theory?

From my dissertation prospectus: "A significant portion of the theory on which this project is based derives from Deleuzian (and neo-Deleuzian) concepts of affect." Is it okay to have a "portion of theory"?

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04/26/2008

The in-text citation would be (Dork 29).

My work has at last boiled down to the following question: How do you cite a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) in MLA style?

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02/24/2008

Reading reading reading

Reading this semester: 1) Burt (ed.), Shakespeare After Mass Media. 2) Hockey, A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities (1980). 3) Rotman, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero. 4) Kastan, Shakespeare After Theory. 5) McAlindon, Shakespeare Minus "Theory". 6) Craik, Reading Sensations in Early Modern England. To read post-hibernation period when seminar and semester are over: 1) Kirschenbaum, Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. 2) Elkins, Six Stories from the End of Representation. 3) van Dijck, Mediated Memories in the Digital Age. 4) Jenkins, Convergence Culture 5) Deleuze, Cinema 1: Movement-Image (and probably a re-read of Cinema 2: Time-Image). Primrose Road: scaring Internetters out of going to grad school since 2007.

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