Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books - 0 views
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The WWW is the Great Mother of All Hypertexts, a world-wide library where you can, or you will in short time, pick up all the books you wish. The Web is the general system of all existing hypertexts. Such a difference between text and system is enormously important,
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Today there are new hypertextual poetics according to which even a book-to-read, even a poem, can be transformed to hypertext. At this point we are shifting to question two, since the problem is no longer, or not only, a physical one, but rather one that concerns the very nature of creative activity, of the reading process, and in order to unravel this skein of questions we have first of all to decide what we mean by a hypertextual link.
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Notice that if the question concerned the possibility of infinite, or indefinite, interpretations on the part of the reader, it would have very little to do with the problem under discussion.
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Webster's World of Cultural Policy - 1 views
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Facing the indifference and hostility of the vast majority of their populations -- sometimes referred to as "non-publics," to indicate their disinterest in establishment culture -- European policy-makers reinterpreted their own roles. They began to see themselves as needing to address the many cultures within their societies, not simply promoting the traditional "high art" culture favored by wealthy patrons in the past. Instead of focusing on how to lure people into established arts institutions, these cultural ministers turned to a set of much broader social questions: How can we begin to overcome the already-entrenched alienation of modernization? How can we retrieve and preserve relevant traditions? How might we facilitate cross-cultural communication, even cooperation? How can we help animate community life?
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Among the primary means devised to realize the aims of cultural democracy is community animation.
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What's most important for advocates of cultural democracy is to keep the big picture in mind.
Thought Police Can't Protect Real Children - 0 views
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would have established the catagory of "nonexistent youth"
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The banning of fictional depictions of child abuse would likely be as meaningless as the banning of fictional depictions of car chasing with the aim toward reducing motor vehicle accidents in real life.
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If content alone was the issue, war footage and horror films should be banned as well.
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Super deformed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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chibi by some anime fans, though chibi is a different concept that refers more to a person's stature rather than the art style. It is part of the Japanese culture, and is seen everywhere in Japan, from subway signs and advertising to anime and manga.
Bellydancing Has Changed My Wife - 1 views
My wife was always unhappy because of the stressful work she had but it all change when she started joining a bellydance class at Bellydance Art Academy. She has that glow in her face that I did ...
Fanart as craft and the creation of culture - 0 views
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, these young people enact relationships to the subject and process of fanart making, fellow fanartists and the fan community that are not unlike those of the medieval European craftsman to his craft, guild workshop and community. Appreciation of local and global aesthetics is quickened, and a desire to develop a high level of skill is inspired.
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personally relevant content
Electronic literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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N. Katherine Hayles discusses the topic in the online article Electronic Literature: What Is It. She argues in her 2008 text Electronic Literature that, "electronic literature, generally considered to exclude print literature that has been digitized, is by contrast 'digital born,' and (usually) meant to be read on a computer."[1]
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Computer art installations which ask viewers to read them or otherwise have literary aspects
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N. Katherine Hayles discusses the topic in the online article Electronic Literature: What Is It. She argues in her 2008 text Electronic Literature that, "electronic literature, generally considered to exclude print literature that has been digitized, is by contrast 'digital born,' and (usually) meant to be read on a computer."[1]
[pixiv] pixivについて - 0 views
Affective Aesthetics « Symposium Blog - 0 views
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But then that’s an argument Henry Jenkins has repeatedly made, here, for example, that parody tends to be male- and industry-preferred whereas the more emotional engagement of fanvids is often dismissed out of hand.
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Vidding thus is an art form that is both too subtly critical (because always inflected with fannish passion) and too polished aesthetically (because the aesthetic dimension does matter above and beyond the critical point being made) to, perhaps, fit into a quick overview of YouTube remixes. Still, as both a vibrant subculture of critical interpretive if not outright political remix culture and an sophisticated artistic subculture with its own aesthetic value system, fan vids certainly deserve to be included in any “Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing.”
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The academy has often been accused of unrealistic attempts of objectivity in the humanities in particular but even in the sciences. After English departments in the seventies destroyed the idea of an objectively created value system that can separate great from merely mediocre and bad literature, after anthropology departments realized in the eighties that observers cannot ever remain neutral and always bring their own biases to their field research; after queer theory and gender theory and critical race studies have brought the personal into the academic in the nineties; after affect theory has established itself as a field of study since–it amazed me that vidding may indeed have been overlooked in its merging of love and inquiry, affect and analysis, celebration and criticism.
Art/Science of Anime/Manga - 0 views
'Boys love' a vicarious escape for girls -Yomiuri - 0 views
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However, her words convey a profound truth--a yearning for relationships with interchangeable roles that are free from fixed ideas about gender.
Japan, Ink: Inside the Manga Industrial Complex - 0 views
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Manga sales in the US have tripled in the past four years.
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Europe has caught the bug, too. In the United Kingdom, the Catholic Church is using manga to recruit new priests. One British publisher, in an effort to hippify a national franchise, has begun issuing manga versions of Shakespeare's plays, including a Romeo and Juliet that reimagines the Montagues and Capulets as rival yakuza families in Tokyo.
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Circulation of the country's weekly comic magazines, the essential entry point for any manga series, has fallen by about half over the last decade.
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Fanfic Symposium: On Swinging Both Ways, Fannish and Pro - 0 views
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Fanfiction puts narrative back in the hands of the people! It's a folkloric art! It helps us go from being passive consumers of media to active participants in creating the archetypes of our culture!
Slash Fandom on the Internet, Or, Is the Carnival Over? - 0 views
An introduction to otaku movement - 0 views
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