On April 17 we had a roundtable discussion on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” here at FAU. I learned a lot from this event and am leaning evermore towards this presentation format, especially as opposed to the single-authored paper recitation/reading that dominates the MLA.
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Re-reading Pattern Recognition for my presentation at the ACLA in a couple of weeks. Although my presentation focuses upon the novel’s relation to film—in particular, Chris Marker’s La jetee—Pattern Recognition speaks to a vast and inter-related media ecology comprised of words, images, icons, fashion, adverts, watermarks, human labor, sigils, and typewriters (including, hilariously, “Stephen King’s […]
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