The Desk | Coursework

Hyperliterature: Techst Text


These works began as projects in or related to Professor Alan Liu's Hyperliterature course. Now, they form part of an ongoing digital humanities project which will link my writings on Turing, Self-Organizing Maps, Machine Writing, Postmodern Identity and Queer Theory, and Hypertext Narrative into a loose constellation of critical nodes.

BYOH (Bring Your Own Hypertext)

My class presentation / directed reading for the Bring Your Own Hypertext day. Each student brought in a work to talk about. My eventual presentation focused on performing textual interconnectivity - reading each other's works and attempting to create explicit links between then, tying them into a loose fabric. Go.

SOMs (Self-Organizing Maps)

A site discussion and guide on a particular subset of artificial intelligence and neural network theory, focusing again on breadth of examples and implementation as they occur on the Internet today, but also drawing out a theory of the role of the SOM/primitive neural network in the process of the Internet and other human data systems becoming "articulated." Go.

Constrained Authorings

A site which meditates on the current possibility spaces of math and literature, especially as they occur on the Internet Produced in partnership with Elizabeth Freudenthal. Go.

Machine Literatures Lecture

Lectures notes on machine literatures, both on the breadth of examples represented in part by the Constrained Authorings site and their groundings in contemporary human writings. Written and delivered in partnership with Elizabeth Freudenthal. Go.

Machine Writing and the Turing Test

From writing to writing system, in accordance with a queer theory of identity and a reception theory of art. This paper ties together the speculations and survey of the Constrained Authorings, Machine Literatures, and Self-Organizing Maps sites, and considers them in terms of the broad history of science, the particular history of Turing's Test, and the ethics of art and authorship. Go.

 

 

 

TopHomeAccount ()
The Desk ©1999 Jeremy Douglass. All rights reserved.
Contact: jdouglas@umail.ucsb.edu

 Constrained Authorings | Machine Literatures | Machine Writing and the Turing Test | Self-Organizing MapsLast Updated: Tuesday May 21, 2002 8:04 PM .
Login | Logout | New | EditTo FooterTo Top ?