"the ratio among all of our senses." Blake Blake "ratio of five senses." HE's everywhere in McLuhan. #mediamodern- Benjamin from Work of Art - the old strains to become the new. the new is thought of in terms of the old. #mediamodern
- print putting itself out of print b/c it succeeded in engendering a reality that only post-print can satisfy. -Wutz. #mediamodern
- Edison 1st to break monopoly of writing (Kittler), writing pressed to the margins & concretized by invention of the typewriter. #mediamodern
- Away from symbolic mediation and recording physical traces of sound waves and light. recording and retrieving. #mediamodern.
- Educational reforms, serialized novels, realism and empiricism, lending libraries, changes in printing technology. #mediamodern
- post-print writers: Zola, Mann, Proust, Joyce, Musil. Informational unconscious, dictates rethinking the domain of writing. #mediamodern
- Daguerre and Fox Talbot - two photographers. Analog photography is Fox Talbot. Pencil of Nature (photography in terms of art). #mediamodern
- EBBrowning would rather have a photograph of a loved one than any great painting of them. Supernatural sense of photography. #mediamodern
- Photographic metaphors used as "ground zero of the real" (Wutz) - litmus test for realism. #mediamodern
- Valery sees photograph as evidence of bad literature. "descriptive genre invade Letters" due to photography. #mediamodern
- Baudelaire links photography with "the stupidity of the multitude, which is its natural ally." Dumbing down of France #mediamodern
- Correlation between mass reproduction and mimesis via reactionary thinking. #mediamodern
- B "if it [photography] be allowed to encroach upon the domain of the...the imaginary...then it will be the worse for us!" #mediamodern
- Frank Norris argues that photography isn't real enough from the POV of the artist. Truth as aesthetic. #mediamodern
- Frank Norris thinks journalism is fine for photography since it is "non literary" - wonder what @qalem would think! #mediamodern
- Norris goes beneath the "surface" of the photograph, since it is there. I.e. aesthetic truth exist b/c of media representation. #mediamodern
- Phonography - Cros, Edison and Berliner. Cros theoretical blueprint for phonograph. Berliner renames it the grammophone. #mediamodern
- Wilke Collins was supposed to be the first literary writer to record work - Tennyson ended up being the first. #mediamodern
- Marinetti's Sound Poetry - turn to sound as focus of poetic. Celebrates a bombardment. War correspondent. #mediamodern
- Transmedial poetry from Apollinaire. Ex: a poem which uses the phonograph to create noises in conjunction with what is read. #mediamodern
- Apollonaire: phonograph and cinema become only forms of reproduction. Poetry is reinvented w/ other mediums. #mediamodern
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Roger Whitson
assist professor of english @ washington state u: blakean, steampunk, dhumanist, maker, romanticist, victorian - author william blake & the digital humanities
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