I am not sure what “The Garden of Forking Paths” is trying to accomplish, but I am interested in the contrasting views it seems to provide on our future and past. The narrator offers this advice to “soldiers and bandits,” “Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should…
In Byung-Chul Han’s “Hypertext and Hyperculture,” he ends with the idea that “Re-theologization, re-mythologization, and re-nationalization are common reactions to the hyperculturalization of the world” (10). There is a suggestion that the hyperculturalization of the world will lead to a type of fundamentalism. Considering this was originally published in German in 2005, I feel it…
To begin with, reading Borges (2018) was quite nostalgic; it brought back memories of literary criticism, the necessity of thematic coding, and events that come to life in your mind. Now, I nearly feel confident in predicting that whoever wrote the script for The Flash (2023) got some inspiration from this short story and its…
Mailloux’s (2000) historical trace of disciplinary conflicts, rhetorical transitions, and epistemological aftermaths contains a wealth of information. Amidst all those arguments raised, the author’s conclusion most closely aligns with some of the ideas I have previously had because of my encounters with identity politics and labeling in academia both as a student and teacher. Academics…
Reading Borges in the past, I remember regarding the infinite permutations of “garden”-pathing, forecasting hypertext, abundant, wonderful, and inviting. But this time, the fourth? or fifth?, a Friday afternoon in late August, am struck by the inexhaustible and therefore exhausting (for mortal humans) infinitude. A garden does not plant, nor water, nor curate itself. The…
During our opening class meeting, August 21, everyone created a list of five sites or platforms associated principally with the phrase “in digital environments.” Time runs out, so we didn’t have much opportunity to talk about the environments, specifically, nor generally, but I returned to them today, Tuesday, with the goal of sorting them and…