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* better solution: "break the circuit of transmission and reception into 2 independent parts assisted in their mating by a common standard" (212) | * better solution: "break the circuit of transmission and reception into 2 independent parts assisted in their mating by a common standard" (212) | ||
** this is the database solution, SQL/relational databases | ** this is the database solution, SQL/relational databases | ||
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Revision as of 18:44, 1 March 2018
Alan Liu, Local Transcendence
"Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse"
new encoding standards, forming a "discourse network 2000" (210)
especially interested in "what will discourse netwrok 2000 mean for the act of authoring?" (210)
"What is the social logic that underlies the techno-logic of discourse network 2000?" (211)
"How is an author now a postindustrial producer?" (211)
"What are the aesthetics of encoded or structured discourse or, as I will term it, of postindustrial dematerialization? And: How is it possible for writers or artists to create in such a medium?" (211)
thought experiment: the problem of sending a poem over the internet to a distant computer, these "idiots savants" of machines
- poor solution is to "transmit procedure" (212) -- difficult to adapt to local needs
- better solution: "break the circuit of transmission and reception into 2 independent parts assisted in their mating by a common standard" (212)
- this is the database solution, SQL/relational databases
- XML/markup
- content management - transmission management - consumption management