http://scrawledinwax.com/2009/07/14/pfft-says-the-cyborg-to-our-worries-about-attention/ WHERE MODERN THINGS MELT INTO OTHER MODERN THINGS Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:38:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://scrawledinwax.com/2009/07/14/pfft-says-the-cyborg-to-our-worries-about-attention/#comment-1452 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:49:12 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=1318#comment-1452 The RAship that I’m working on right now enacts that shift to database knowledge in interesting ways. Peter Paolucci is working on a new sort of critical edition of Shakespeare’s plays not in terms of the usual line + footnote/endnote format (in which the play text and the annotations are fixed, and fixed together following the arc of the narrative), but rather in a way that disposes with the fixed text altogether. Instead, the critical edition is simply criticism/commentary being pulled from the webiverse, matched up with the play text, then scripted into an ever evolving website that can take into account what *anyone* has to say about Shakespeare’s plays (which the reader can then widen or narrow down as they like). Quite interesting. Well, my part of it isn’t, but the project is.

]]> http://scrawledinwax.com/2009/07/14/pfft-says-the-cyborg-to-our-worries-about-attention/#comment-1450 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:15:54 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=1318#comment-1450 Yes! Who would have thought that secondary orality (like the industrial city) would be a century-long blip, a detour, an aberration?

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