As an act of reparation for neglecting to send my 20th Century German Thought class a link to Derrida's "Structure, Sign and Play" in due time, I sent out an interesting interactive link to a consideration of the piece that made good use of Landow's principles of hypertextuality (whatever they may be). In a tumultuous spell of twelve-or-so minutes, I realized that the Landow/Hypertextuality of my email was the same as the one that graced a subject heading that I had seen very recently on The Olde LiveJournal, so I quickly contextualized the note above ("a friend of mine"..."at another 'university' "..."recalled...") and sent it out to the mostly-sleeping members of my poor, haphazard class.
My professor, if anything, seemed to approve, so I thought that I would show you the degree of beneficient snideness that this beautiful little piece of angst-poetry and your story at large was able to generate:
Quoting Silke Weineck, Professor of Germanic Literature:
"The lesson, I assume, is that carrying around a book on New Media for months erases all memory of Old Media such as xerox copies?"
Guffaw, guffaw, guffaw.
Lauren Stokes--how are you? How is Swarthmore? Und Deutsch? Pray tell--what is it that you are studying? Tell me about Hypertextuality! Tell me about exciting, intellectualized things, because I feel that I have been living in a hole made of mud for most of a year!
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Date: 2007-04-08 04:10 pm (UTC)As an act of reparation for neglecting to send my 20th Century German Thought class a link to Derrida's "Structure, Sign and Play" in due time, I sent out an interesting interactive link to a consideration of the piece that made good use of Landow's principles of hypertextuality (whatever they may be). In a tumultuous spell of twelve-or-so minutes, I realized that the Landow/Hypertextuality of my email was the same as the one that graced a subject heading that I had seen very recently on The Olde LiveJournal, so I quickly contextualized the note above ("a friend of mine"..."at another 'university' "..."recalled...") and sent it out to the mostly-sleeping members of my poor, haphazard class.
My professor, if anything, seemed to approve, so I thought that I would show you the degree of beneficient snideness that this beautiful little piece of angst-poetry and your story at large was able to generate:
Quoting Silke Weineck, Professor of Germanic Literature:
"The lesson, I assume, is that carrying around a book on New Media for months erases all
memory of Old Media such as xerox copies?"
Guffaw, guffaw, guffaw.
Lauren Stokes--how are you? How is Swarthmore? Und Deutsch? Pray tell--what is it that you are studying? Tell me about Hypertextuality! Tell me about exciting, intellectualized things, because I feel that I have been living in a hole made of mud for most of a year!
Yours Robotically,
Jessi Holler,
Lost, Mostly.