Steve Ersinghaus

Jesse Abbot writing hypertext poetry.

A nice set of courses on hypertext by Deena Larsen. It’s a backbone syllabus!

Surface will be a very nice reading environment for hypertext and other hypermedia works. Soon the link will be an issue of touch, bringing a few more interesting affordance elements to the “surface” of units of meaning.

We’ve talking a lot about narrative distance this week (and last week). August Wilson has a neat example of this in his play, Fences. Here’s a chain:
1. Troy and Cory clash at the end of the play after building tension between them.
2. While not immediately linked to the above, but critical to it, [...]

Not much logging to do here at the moment because we’re steeped in the arts. My nose is buried in the 100 Images Project. But I also have some ideas going about hypertext, processing, and the ghostly arguments about hypertext that have been traversing the journals for the last few years.
I heard someone [...]

Lots of interesting conversation and work at Hypertext 08. It’s going to take a few days to recover from the travel and the amount of ideas passed about.

Mark Bernstein’s 2nd Wiki Challenge is up.
I’ve been slowly nudging our history faculty to use wiki technology to replace their text books. We’ll be adding Wiki software to a mint condition server soon so that they have the opportunity. Faculty complain about the expense and redundancy of text books (this is only [...]

Is Courbet’s The Stone Breakers a unit of meaning?
No is my answer. It is a potential universe of possibilities though. It is a whole within a greater assemblage, as is Bill Kluba’s Two Tables.
On the poet and the poet’s language, Shelley writes:
Their language is vitally metaphorical; that is, it marks the before unapprehended [...]

In this next Gallery Talk, John Timmons and I sit in the office and talk Courbet, realism, and reading process. It really gave us a chance to continue on some of the idea we roundabouted on the Saint Francis piece.
In terms of the “Confluence” thesis, much of this is laying down ground work for much [...]

 

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The next Gallery Talk sessions took place over the course of last week, with John Timmons stepping into the office to cover Bonaventura Berlinghieri’s Byzantine altar piece on Saint Francis and Gustave Courbet’s work. We read, we talk, and follow where ever things lead.
The first vidcast covers certain reading issues and relationships. “What [...]

 

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I laughed when the waitress tells Harley she needs her hand.
“God how I adore you,” Harley declared.
The waitress flushed and parked the pitcher with a deliberate slosh into Harley’s lap. “I need this,” she protested, extracting her hand.
See Victory Garden “Adoration.”
It is significant that we learn that the waitress is Veronica Runbird. She [...]

This is a short clarifying post that extends my last essay Reading Hypertext: Developing Imperceptibility. In that essay I wrote:
In the modern world, science trumps theology because the scope of science is more massive and more tangible. Hubble’s deep field photographs inspire the sublime just as Bub feels what a Cathredral means not with [...]

Alan Bigelow’s new yarn is up at webyarns
“Love Is…” is an attempt at a definition, and as with all definitions that try to explain what love is, precision is not possible, and perhaps not even desirable. This piece moves toward a definition of love in three stages: first through a standard, accepted lexicon; then via [...]

I have so many small projects going, it’s hard to know where to concentrate effort. One item to complete is Brimmer and Death, a story based on a world created by Neil Gaiman.
Two things to do: freshen up the dramatic pull of the story. It’s still a little dull.
The last is to work on the [...]

Dan Green writes:
I’d have to say that the discipline of literary study has become more than unmoored and confused. I’m afraid that “the overt hostility to aesthetic questions in certain quarters,” as Jonathan puts it, has become the mainstream attitude among academic literary critics. Some writers might still be valued because they can be used [...]