In-Text Index—09/11/2023

I find the way Angela Haas explains organization interesting, especially in relation to the relationships between database and narrative that Folsom and Hayles discuss. Haas clarifies her usage of subheadings, stating “Despite the use of subheading to facilitate spatially organized logics, it is important to read productive intellectual and practical overlaps across and between the rhetorical repertoire” (413). Haas is explaining how to read her writing, and how subheadings should be approached. This recognition of subheadings “pointing” has a place in Folsom’s and Hayles’ discussion of the database. Can subheadings be part of a database? (95) [JU-03]

[Folsom, 2007; Haas, 2018; Hayles, 2007]

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  1. Subheadings do signal arrangement and function as organizational beacons, in this sense. I would say yes, it does seem to me that subheadings can be part of a relational database because “relational” indicates a pluralized relationship among records. With this, there arises multiple possibilities, and the simultaneous structural hierarchy can co-exist with the Venn-diagram-like blurring and blending, like Haas’ urges us to consider. But I offer this $.02 more as first words than final words on the matter; what do others think?

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