How are things different now? What changes with our class? What stays the same? How do we move forward?
Wednesday, March 18 (Week 10)
- Contact re-established
- Introduction to Zoom and Slack
Friday, March 20
- Twine Workshop
The Sublime
Literature has traditionally been bound in books, but what happens when digital forms enable works too massive, too awesome to behold? And what about databases as instances of the digital sublime?
Monday, March 23 (Week 11)
- David Nye, chapter 1 from American Technological Sublime (1994), pp. 1-16
- Video Introduction to the Sublime (2015)
- Video on the technological sublime (2015)
- John Simon, Every Icon (1997)
- Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, Sea and Spar Between (2012)
- Blog (Round 4): Group A
Wednesday, March 25
- Lev Manovich, “The Database” from The Language of New Media (2001), pp. 219-236
- Jonathan Harris, The Whale Hunt (2007)
- Blog (Round 4): Group B
Friday, March 27
- Rettberg, “Network Critique” (from chapter 6) of Electronic Literature, pp. 179-182
- Jonathan Harris and Greg Hochmuth, Network Effect (2015)
- Blog (Round 4): Group C
Monday, March 30 (Week 12)
- Twine Workshop
Wednesday, April 1
- Sam Barlow, Her Story (2015)
- Blog (Round 4): Group D
Friday, April 3
- Her Story
- Blog (Round 4): Group E
The Broken
What’s the role of the broken, the glitched, and the ruined in digital narrative?
Monday, April 6 (Week 13)
- Video introduction to dysfunctionality (2015)
- Jason Nelson, Game, Game, Game, and Again Game (2007)
- Ansh Patel, Perfect World (2015)
- Blog (Round 5): Group A
Wednesday, April 8
- Bury Me, My Love (2017)
- Blog (Round 5): Group B
Friday, April 10
- Bury Me, My Love
- Blog (Round 5): Group C
Monday, April 13 (Week 14)
- Easter Break – No Class
Wednesday, April 15
- Alan Bigelow, How to Rob a Bank (2016)
- Blog (Round 5): Group D
Friday, April 17
- In class: Twine Workshop
- Working Version of Final Project Due
Monday, April 20 (Week 15)
- Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman, Pry (2014)
- Blog (Round 5): Group E
Wednesday, April 22
Friday, April 24
- Twine Workshop (including these tips on making the most of Twine)
Monday, April 27 (Week 16)
- Twine Workshop
Wednesday, April 29
- Competition Version of Final Project Due
Friday, May 1
- Twine stuff
Monday, May 4
- Course Wrap up
- Synthesis Blog post due