IM Week 7 lecture.

Some notes I was able to grab from this weeks lecture, not very extensive, just dot points provoking some interesting thoughts.

Q1.Apart from reminding us that narrative is made up of ‘everyday stuff,’ what can lists achieve as a literary device?

lists allow to generally get details across quickly without having to explain
quick descriptions in separate ways
main interest for us atm in this subject is the ways they aren’t literally
what can lists achieve as list..
twitter is a listing more than a narrative – instagram, flickr… generate lists certainly don’t tell stories.. there are people telling stories.. but they’re the exception. they’re meant to be little fragments
without constraints you can’t have creativity
because it’s digital doesn’t mean the software can do everything and anything you want with it
constraint is fundamental
lists = move away from narrative ruling them all
lists provide one method for answering a problem.. next step is what can we do with lists
we can’t be literary in the sense of narrative
wanting to be playful with language – bit more like writing a song than writing a narrative.

Q2. Why and to what end are we to be freed from the ‘tyranny of representation’?

rep in this context = any can be used to represent things in a narrative but also what the words actually mean
science says we’re not special
what he’s saying representation is a constant representation of us in the middle of the universe.. he’s saying get over ourselves..
the world doesn’t just make sense to our narrative
my life is a story = arrogance because I must be narrating it = writing a story would be like saying writing the fact you’re going to win the lottery
why? we leep misreading the world

Q3.Bogost writes ‘lists do not just rebuff the connecting parts of language but rebuff the connecting of being itself.’ How do lists do this?

removes any meaningful links between items in the list
language can’t account for what the iPhone is… it ca’t account for what the screen feels. we’re not saying there’s a consciousness but there is something going on

> our media use is becoming more niche

> newspapers, commercial radio, channel ten.. all dying out