ENGL 1128 Lecture Notes - Close Reading, Technological Utopianism, Malcolm Gladwell
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Professor emeritus of english and art history, brown university. 1980"s and 90"s, very familiar with post-structuralist literary criticism. No man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved. Discourse: a way of understanding and communicating that is rexognized and allowed by a society . Lexia: text composed of blocks of text . Meme: a unit of cultural transmission or a unit of imitation . The formal logic by which new media refashion prior media forms (jay bolter and grushin) Sometimes our greatest freedom may be to choose freedom from freedom (656) Journalist for the washington post and the new yorker. Author the tipping point (2000), blink (2005), outliers (2008) Focuses on unexpected aspects of ordinary things. Moroney vs. huffington: model for newspapers (553) Free as law vs. free as price (554)
