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Plato & Saussure

Posted in August 26th, 2009

Update: We now have a classroom for this coming Tuesday. It is CBW 1.106.
Read Plato’s Phaedrus and Saussure’s Course on General Linguistics. Note: For Plato you only need to read Phaedrus, the whole book is over 400 pages long, but the relevant dialogue begins on page 396-459. Read the entire dialogue, but especially focus on [...]

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Beginning Fall 09

Posted in August 23rd, 2009

The first grad class of the semester is in just a few day, when this blog will become dedicated to EMAC 5300, Introduction to the Study of Emerging Media. Tune back in soon for full syllabus, reading list, etc.

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What This Class is About

"the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable content . . . .The archivization produces as much as it records the event." -Derrida, Archive Fever