I'm going to go out on a limb and approach my blog differently this week. Call me lazy, but I'm simply pasting the notes I typed while reading. Mainly because I found them somewhat amusing (my notes). I was intrigued by Porter, then Johnson-Eilola was hard to get into - as soon as he got into the Google discussion I got confused, and the annotations in the photocopy added to the confusion of ideas. Anyway, if you read this thanks and enjoy.
PORTER intertextuality
What is originality?
sources + social contexts > writer
editing and editors - objectivity - use of quotes
"norms" of discourse communities
posthumously famous people -Robert Frost
starving artist
hipster.
Eliot's "tradition" = intertextuality?
Bartholomae "The struggle of the student writer is not the struggle to bring out that which is within; it is the struggle to carry out those ritual activities that grant out entrance into a closed society"
"there is this tendency to see writing as individual, as isolated, as heroic" (44)
"community writers"
Johnson-Eilola The Database and the Essay
"We are comfortable with unreliable narrative."
What's reliable?
"The production of 'original' text will continue to be an important activity, but the cultural and economic power of that activity is on the wane."
the anti-hipster, or, hipsters don't want cultural or economic power.
"What right should any single person have over an idea?" should they care about "rights"? greed.
writing≠compilation
sampling in music=[good] compilation
What is creativity?
Does publicity relinquish your creativity/privacy?
Google=writing/rhetoric?
Interesting post this week Karen. I had some similar thoughts in my own notes.
ReplyDeletewriting does = compilation, in my opinion. A compilation of ideas, introduced externally, that you translate onto paper, to try and make a point. These ideas may not have been your creation, but the power of what you write, or the overall message this compilation can convey is something the author can claim as their own.