ENG 921 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Racter, Chess Notation
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What does an author do: constructs, transforms ideas, composes, collects, collaborate, choose and organize words. There is no one type of conceptual writing and no one type of authorship. What does it mean to translate: lingual; one language to another, intersemiotic translation; book to movie (text to visual) The task of the translator : literal vs the poetic, finding that intended effect upon the language into which he is translating which produces in it the echo of the original , must incorporate the original"s mode of signification . An interdependent game; can"t make a move without a response. Long history of chess used in art, especially modern works. Used to represent war, intelligence, madness and interiority, cities. Turing and playing a passable game of chess. Long been the litmus test of whether a computer is intelligent (and human) Computers as increasingly more ubiquitous and our relationship with them increasingly symbiotic. Play and rules constraint in poetry; breaking and keeping.
