Meeting notes, other notes, and references

RSS feeds of querries:

• phrases have to be in double-quotes like > “”Barack Obama”"
• to boost search results > “”Barack Obama”"^4 (carat and position number – 1 is the default
• key quotes about the topic/phrase

Jonathan Harris’s 10×10 and Lovelines are two new precedents that heavily relate to the output that I’m aiming to produce.

• new meaning of the media’s interpretation of crises through linguistic play
• impact of media on issues > narratives being produced > mass cognition
• how media conceptualizes issues/news events
• expressing large social dynamic
• public concern vs mass media
• words shape/express public conception of media
• system portrays its own meaning

Suggestions:

• Capturing the media hype of crisis and find a form that would heighten aspect of language
• Look for places where language was used to show sensationalism and structure of form that relates that
• Look at Dada – newspaper articles piece
• many eyes as a test bed for visualization
• figure out form before amount on the scene
• making natural language searching as simple as possible

Broaden Poetry Idea: write down everywhere i see how language is used in a particular form, think about how each would work, street signs, bags, etc, that slip below level of consciousness, think about them as a system: characteristics, what does it communicate as a form without any content, what would it mean with this content on to it

Find 3 completely different forms and experiment with content: differences that exist in different environments’ forms, and how they go out to the public

• Go broad before going deep

Audience: consider the people who will see it, and what is their worldview, understanding, opinion of what media is? what are their assumptions and how can I change those assumptions?

• What is the story i’m trying to tell? The linguistic structure and interface will shape story
• Who am I trying to tell it to and why?
• Think comparatively: how phrases are used in different contexts
• Clarify the elevator pitch on the story I’m trying to tell

Other precedents and supportive info (from comModified paper):

• Kay Rosen
• Barbera Kruger
• Jean Arp
• Max Ernst
• Other Neo-Dadaist artists

References from Sites of Contention: The Analytics of Crisis taught by Janet Roitman

• “Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis, Public Culture, 7, 2, 1995.
  
• “On Crisis” in The Practice of Conceptual History, Stanford University Press, 2002
  
• Marx’s Theory of Crisis, St. Martin’s Press, 1994, Chapters 1, 6, 7, 8, 9.
  
• “Millenial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming”, Public Culture, 12-2, 2000, pp. 291-343.
  
• “Introduction: commodities and the politics of value” in Appadurai, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1986, pp. 1-63.
  
• “Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography”, in Collier and Ong, eds. Global Assemblages. Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, Blackwell, 2005, pp. 336-352.
  
• “Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City” in J. Biehl, B. Good, A. Kleinman, eds. Subectivity: Ethnographic Investigations, University of California Press, 2007, pp. 315-340.

Potential aesthetic direction:

Movie credits – opening sequences (i.e.Saul Bass > Mad Men, success of opening of the movie Seven

Potential Language format:

• Form1: Tabloids [http://www.journalism.org/node/35] > one-liners, sensational, serious, impudent, harried, sharp rapid fire, snippets
• Form2: Haiku > 17 syllables total, 5-7-5; Paints meaning and imagery; simple, raw, strips away of excess in order to attain the goal of truth; makes every word important to the overall meaning;  natural poetic flow, a brief interlude of calm in the chaos of the world.
• Form 3: Presidential/Political slogans [ http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_political_slogans ] [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_slogans ] > Use most popular ones as madlibs filling in parts with queried findings or at the end of them