Publics and Publishing in transition
Welcome to ARTS2090 for 2011
Welcome! You’ll find lots of ways into interesting material on the history, theory and contemporary state of publishing on this site. You’ll find links to all this further down this page. There is a full course guide with live links. Use this for linking out to the online readings/preparation. There is also a pdf you [...]
Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu
Still kind of mindblowing really—
Ted Nelson speaking in Sydney this Wednesday
Ted Nelson, one of the most interesting people in the history of personal computing, is speaking at Sydney University this week. His topic: “The Computer World Could Be Completely Different“. He is a radical thinker about publishing, to say the least. Quote from his web site: “Before the personal computer, and before the Web, there [...]
Arcade Fire Interactive
If you’ve never seen this Arcade Fire interactive from a little while back, it’s really interesting, in itself, and as an example of highly innovative publishing and marketing. You need to view it in the Chrome browser though … also a specific and unusual constitution of a public through publishing that is even subtler than [...]
Elizabeth Eisenstein on Printing and Disruption
Elizabeth Eisenstein is arguably the best known scholar on printing and its social impacts. Here is some video of her talking about print/text and disruption.
Spiral and Spokes Model for the Process of Research
This is a great post on Glen Fuller’s blog about the basics of research as it occurs. He takes up Bob Hodge’s excellent spiral and spokes model, which tells us we are always in a (non-linear) middle of our research. Well worth looking at.
Domino Project and “Poke the Box”
I’m not sure what I think about all this … but this is all about transforming publishing, and the Domino Project is in league with Amazon, not to mention Seth Goden, who’s a bit of a publishing guru for some people. And there’s a free download for those who want to get their own project [...]
Your Blog and Your Tutor’s Email Address
Many apologies if there is some confusion. Obviously you can’t send the web address (URL) for your blog (as the course outline requires you to) to your tutor if you don’t yet have their email! This is fine. Your tutor will give you this email address in the tutorials in Week Two. You can send [...]
Gregory Ulmer on Social Shifts and the “Apparatus”
The very interesting Gregory Ulmer on orality, literacy and electracy. We’ll be watching some of this in the lecture in Week Two.
Guardian documentary on the history of publishing
… British publishing and in the twentieth century, but it’s a good documentary. You can find it here.
Andrew’s ARTS2090 links
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