Computers and Writing

Chapter 13: The Web
            In chapter 13, Rice addresses how cool and corporate development merge on the web to create a result that predicts a futuristic, web-based writing process. Rice talks about HP’s “Cooltown,” a utopian future in which all movement is controlled by computer technology created for the internet. It is based on mobility [...]

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In chapter 11 Rice discusses Kerouac’s spontaneous writing method in which sentences run into each other and ideas quickly with out much transition. This writing method is marked by a quick pace which Rice links to the speed of technological development of the 1950’s and 60’s. Spontaneous provides a look into the inner mind of [...]

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    Our group defined plagiarism as using someone else’s work for your own personal gain, whether it is grades, finance, or even just recognition. Remix is taking part of someone else’s work and changing it to make it your own. The main difference between the two would be that plagiarism is directly copying another’s work, [...]

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Rice argues that cool can be used to describe someone who is oppressed culturally, economically, and or politically. Rice begins by showing that cool’s origins are placed within African history, and that the term probably came to America with the slave trade. Rice points to Amiri Baraka’s Blues People for further insight into the historical [...]

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Chapter One: In this chapter, Rice gives a history of cool, and talks about its definitions. Cool is perceived as something dealing with rebellion or an independent nature. It then talks about how cool is used in different ways at different places on the internet.
Chapter Two: Talks [...]

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Ripples By: Norma “Incachild” Gutierrez
I picked this project initially because it caught my eye, but on closer examination there are many readings in this image. Each time you look at it it develops more from the last time. This project is composed of digitally manipulated photographs. There are many different elements to it and you [...]

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