Close reading: What is reading for?
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 338-355
ISSN: 1467-873X
In: Curriculum inquiry: a journal from The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 338-355
ISSN: 1467-873X
Copyright the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. ; Reading has always been a contentious and political practice, but this is heightened in the contemporary moment both because of the way the environments in which we read are changing so radically. For Katherine Hayles reading is "a powerful technology for reconfiguring activity patterns in the brain" [Hayles 2010, 193], a view representative of attempts to connect the new neuroscience of reading with age old practices of literary endeavour. For Sven Birkerts, however, "the Internet and the novel are opposites" [Birkerts 2010], a view that suggests that a hierarchy of reading that locks digital readers out of higher order thinking and literary experience. Meanwhile, Anne Mangen finds that electronic reading environments "negatively affect emotional aspects of reading" [Mangen 2016]. But these approaches tend to understand reading as something static that occurs in one space or another. However, in practice our reading is increasingly distributed. Reading can occur in multiple formats, across multiple platforms for the one text or reading experience. A novel begun in print can be read online in a born-digital format and concluded in a scanned digital format, for example. These journeys across platform require deeper investigation. If we think of the printed book as an interface between two orders of thinking, we need to consider how the experience of reading a digitized version of a formerly printed and bound book alters literary reception and student experience. How does the experience of reading across different technological platforms change the reader's relationship to the content? As more and more electronic reading platforms take on the physical attributes of material reading experiences either by retaining material traces or by emulating them, we might question what experience How do the material traces left on digitised works impact the reading process for reading in literary studies? The lively discourse surrounding Google Books and the human breaches of the material into the immaterial, as the work crosses the borders of formats and interfaces, raises valuable questions about the future of the book, reading in the twenty-first century, and the long and formidable shadow that centuries of material text production casts over Google Books' electronic utopia. This paper uses both book history and new media interface theory to consider the multitude of diverse experiences that is literary reading across different platforms in and out of the classroom and to consider whether distracted reading can be better understood as distributed reading. It considers critical infrastructure studies as a useful framework through which to think about reading in the digital age.
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As the title of this thesis suggests, Charles Bernstein's essay: "The Objects of Meaning: Reading Cavell Reading Wittgenstein" plays an important role in the analysis, it serves as a portal to his work. The essay on Cavell and Wittgenstein focuses on four issues which figure prominently in Bernstein's poetics: the relation between philosophy and literature, the political dimension of literature, the epistemological problem of skepticism and a theory of reading. All of these are major concerns in the works of Cavell and Wittgenstein. The first three chapters of the thesis discuss and elaborate on the first three areas of poetic and philosophical overlap. Each one gives an account of Bernstein's poetics by first supplying the philosophical context and then focusing on an aspect of Bernstein's poetics which develops from this breeding ground. It is one of my central claims, however, that Bernstein's poetry and poetry as epistemological inquiry in general is able to extend the works of philosophers such as Wittgenstein and Cavell in ways not predictable by the two philosophers' oeuvres. This is in particular apparent in my reading of Bernstein's Dark City which illustrates the ways in which poetry surmounts the possibilities of philosophy and turns out to be the adequate medium for an epistemological inquiry. Dark City (1994) is representative for Bernstein's poetry, because it brings together philosophy, politics and poetry. The dark city of words or city of dark words functions as a model and way to the just society. It stands in the tradition of Plato's Republic while reclaiming the place of poetry in society or the role of poetic thinking for the human being as such. The concluding chapter "Redemptive Reading" takes reading itself as its subject. Bernstein's theory of reading, developed in this chapter, is not only based on poetic reflection but also on the actual experience of reading/writing. The kind of reading suggested and provoked by Dark City is related to Cavell's idea of revitalizing language through a ...
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In: Routledge Revivals Ser
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ethnography in perspective -- 3 Ethnography: parody and pastiche -- 4 Supervising the text -- 5 Urban confessions -- 6 At Man's Best Hospital and the Mug'n'Muffin -- 7 Goffinan's poetics -- 8 The ethnography of a medical setting: reading, writing and rhetoric -- 9 Reading health economics -- 10 Epilogue -- Bibliography
In: Monthly Review, Band 68, Heft 3, S. 133
ISSN: 0027-0520
Marx's Capital presents a rigorous scientific analysis of the capitalist mode of production and capitalist society, and how they differ from earlier forms. Volume 1 delves into the heart of the problem. It directly clarifies the meaning of the generalization of commodity exchanges between private property owners (and this characteristic is unique to the modern world of capitalism, even if commodity exchanges had existed earlier), specifically the emergence and dominance of value and abstract social labor.… Volume 2 demonstrates why and how capital accumulation functions, more specifically, why and how accumulation successfully integrates the exploitation of labor in its reproduction and overcomes the effects of the social contradiction that it represents.… Volume 3 of Capital is different. Here Marx moves from the analysis of capitalism in its fundamental aspects (its "ideal average") to that of the historical reality of capitalism.… To move from the reading of Capital (and particularly of volumes 1 and 2) to that of historical capitalisms at successive moments of their deployment has its own requirements, even beyond reading all of Marx and Engels.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
This essay explores the vitality of an Althusserian reading of Capital by means of a reconsideration of the so-called "theoreticism". In this sense, I propose to approach the Althusserian intervention in the terms of a proper materialist query about practices. Following the idea posed by Etienne Balibar about the philosophical worth of Marxist theory in XXI century, I develop the thesis that in the light of Marxist "philosophy", the misunderstood relation still existing between theoretical and political practices are nevertheless thinkable. Finally, I propose that in as much as it might be considered that in this relation lies the kernel of Marx's discovery, it also could be a basis for rereading Capital under present challenges.
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In: Rethinking marxism: RM ; a journal of economics, culture, and society ; official journal of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, Band 17, Heft 1, S. 101-118
ISSN: 1475-8059
This essay explores the vitality of an Althusserian reading of "Capital" by means of a reconsideration of the so-called "theoreticism". In this sense, I propose to approach the Althusserian intervention in the terms of a proper materialist query about practices. Following the idea posed by Etienne Balibar about the philosophical worth of Marxist theory in XXI century, I develop the thesis that in the light of Marxist "philosophy", the misunderstood relation still existing between theoretical and political practices are nevertheless thinkable. Finally, I propose that in as much as it might be considered that in this relation lies the kernel of Marx's discovery, it also could be a basis for rereading "Capital" under present challenges. ; Facultad de Bellas Artes (FBA)
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In: Handbook of Research on Schools, Schooling and Human Development
In: Participation: bulletin de l'Association Internationale de science politique : bulletin of the International Political Science Association, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 34-35
ISSN: 0709-6941
In: Participation: bulletin de l'Association Internationale de science politique : bulletin of the International Political Science Association, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 29
ISSN: 0709-6941
In: Participation: bulletin de l'Association Internationale de science politique : bulletin of the International Political Science Association, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 28
ISSN: 0709-6941
In: Participation: bulletin de l'Association Internationale de science politique : bulletin of the International Political Science Association, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 29
ISSN: 0709-6941