Laura’s podcast
This may create more confusion than clarification. I myself, have been lost most of the way… although this may not be a bad thing in a hypertext
voices:Megan Luepke, Ben Barnard, Colleen Tichich, Jeff Field
works used:
Stitch Bitch:the patchwork girl by Shelly Jackson (1997)
Women of no Time. The Pomegranate by Ada A. Aharoni Ph.D (1997)
The Northwest Indiana Times (Oct 8 2007)
The Bible John 1:1
October 9th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Laura,
I’ve listened to your podcast five times now and every time I hear something new, and then just as I strive to follow my reaction (my train of thought–choo-choo), the podcast pulls me to a side track, closely related but different. So, overall: well done. You’ve created a rich (fudgy) world that effectively conveys many of the concepts and texts that we’ve been reading. I especially liked the imitation of Jackson’s crazy quilt, especially especially the little wink that comes from quilting in her line about others plagiarizing her–not only have you done it literally by borrowing her language, you’ve done it stylistically by “knotting” her ideas throughout the podcast into hers.
I also appreciated the care you took with your gaps, and the “hyperlinks” (urls?) of the other threads that were thereby exposed. Even though choice is not possible in the podcast media, I felt the metaphor of hypertext was very present in the preciseness of your collage. I found these juxtapositions particularly effective at the end: the woman of no time, I am not who I think I am, the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. These really pull from various strands of Jackson’s work.
It also occurred to me that your multiple threads imitated the multiple universe theory you were expounding upon in the “top” voice or thread. It’s cool that others in the class saw other possible meanings (this is the way thought sounds in the head, this is where Laura gave an example of what she meant by idea, etc.); that indicates a complexity in your creation.
I was sure what to make of how we are “meant to communicate through pure idea.” (I’m not sure I know what a pure idea would be.) I’m especially confused b/c you followed this up with the claim that then we would have a media for every human dilemma. But wouldn’t communication through pure idea entail the absence of media, the final achievement of immediacy Bolter and Grusin say we’re striving for?
Great work.