Alan Liu, Beckman Lecture Notes

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Alan Liu, Beckman Lectures
UC Berkeley, Fall 2003

Lecture 2 (October 15)

Transcendental Data
Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse

This page contains illustrations and other materials for the lecture. (Last revised 10/15/03 )

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<anthology>
    <poem><title>The SICK ROSE</title>
        <stanza>
            <line>O Rose thou art sick.</line>
            <line>The invisible worm,</line>
            <line>That flies in the night</line>
            <line>In the howling storm:</line>
            </stanza>
            <stanza>
            <line>Has found out thy bed</line>
            <line>Of crimson joy:</line>
            <line>And his dark secret love</line>
            <line>Does thy life destroy.</line>
        </stanza>
    </poem>
</anthology>

XML markup of poem

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Content Management

Transmission Management

Consumption Management

Morphology Of Discourse Network 2000

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Transformability

Autonomous Mobility

Automation +

Separation Of Content From Material Instantiation or Formal Presentation

Technologic Of Discourse Network 2000

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Code from a simple database-driven Web page that draws content dynamically from an Access

Ed Falco, Self-Portrait of Child With Father (1999)

XML-based, partial representation of Falco's story

Code from XML document and its associated XSLT stylesheet (the latter designed to pour XML content dynamically into HTML for the Web)

Two Examples of Data Islands

SQL statement:

SELECT * FROM Artists ORDER BY LastName, FirstName, Dates, Nation

XLST (and XPATH) statement:

xsl:value-of select="LEXIA_TITLE"/>

Comparison of "Select" Statements in Databases and XML

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RSS News Aggregator

The "Bauhaus" Effect of Data Pours

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J. M. W. Turner, Light and Colour

J. M. W. Turner, Light and Colour: The Morning after the Deluge (1843)

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Marcos Novak's "transarchitecture": examples: 1 | 2

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Lisa Jevbratt, 1:1