{"id":37184,"date":"2015-09-10T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=37184"},"modified":"2015-09-09T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:10:48","slug":"janet-h-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/janet-h-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"janet h. murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>For me at the age of twenty, the only activity worthy of serious human effort was reading novels.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I began reading my own way down that long shelf of books.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>My favorite critic was Northrop Frye.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Some truths about the world are beyond the reach of a particular art form at a particular moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by the constraint of producing a single book with a single pattern of organization, I filled my collection with multiple cross-references, encouraging the reader to jump from one topic to another.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I simply wanted the reader to understand Mary Taylor&#8217;s exhilaration in opening a dry goods store in New Zealand in the context of her friendship with Charlotte Bront\u00eb as well as in relation to the range of Victorian opinion on women&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I did not think of this cross referencing as hypertext because I had not yet heard the term.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Although the computer is often accused of fragmenting information and overwhelming us, I believe this view is a function of its current undomesticated state.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The more we cultivate it as a tool for serious inquiry, the more it will offer itself as both an analytical and a synthetic medium.<\/p>\n<p><!--- [...]\n\n'I love the book!' she cried. 'If you are coming to talk against the book tomorrow, I will throw you out the window.'\n\n[...]\n\nHer reation was a sign that the new technologies are extending our powers faster than we can assimilate the change. ---><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>We cling to books as if we believed that coherent human thought is only possible on bound, numbered pages.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The computer is not the enemy of the book.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It is the child of print culture, a result of the five centuries of organized, collective inquiry and invention that the printing press made possible.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I am hooked on the charm of making the dumb machines sing.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>To elicit something with the tone of a human voice out of the silent circuitry of the machine.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I find myself anticipating a new kind of storyteller, one who is half hacker, half bard.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The spirit of the hacker is one of the great creative wellsprings of our time, causing the inanimate circuits to sing with ever more individualized and quirky voices.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The spirit of the bard is eternal and irreplaceable, telling us what we are doing here and what we mean to one another.<\/p>\n<p><em>uit Hamlet on the holodeck (pagina 1 t\/m 10) <\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--- Murray\u2019s analysis rests on an understanding of the computer as a medium of representation with a distinct set of properties. She argues that the computer is procedural, participatory, encyclopedic, and spatial, and that it affords three characteristic (but not unique) pleasures: immersion, agency, and transformation. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Frye asked, \"what if criticism is a science as well as an art?\" ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;] For me at the age of twenty, the only activity worthy of serious human effort was reading novels. [&#8230;] I began reading my own way down that long shelf of books. [&#8230;] My favorite critic was Northrop Frye. 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