Let Me Edutain You

When I was a graduate student at UC Riverside, I took a class with James Tobias where, among other things, we played video games. We also read and wrote about games and gaming. The reading part has always been sort of a game to me, anyways. The writing part: definitely a game. Here’s how we Let Me Edutain You

Structures of Thinking, Structures of Writing

Back in the 1960s Douglas Engelbart challenged the way people thought about things. In a 1962 report titled “Augmenting Human Intellect,” he proposed a switch from linear thinking –i.e., “a sequence of steps of reason, beginning with known facts, assumptions, etc., and progressing towards a conclusion”– to a system based on the rearrangement of concept-statements. He Structures of Thinking, Structures of Writing

Ocupación poética a la deriva

Como todavía estoy de vacaciones y he vuelto a Madrid, me acerqué al Matadero a tomar una caña y dar un paseo con una amiga.  El paseo se multiplicó poéticamente. La realidad aumentada, y cito de la web de Intermediae directamente: “permite geolocalizar contenidos en unas coordenadas físicas”, es decir, nos permite repensar el continente físico Ocupación poética a la deriva

Dos días por cada minuto

Soy muy de perder libros. Es una desgracia terrible e inexplicable, muy mía. Esta mañana he comprado algunos ejemplares de esos que o bien he perdido terriblemente hace tiempo, o jamás (más terrible todavía) llegué a comprar. España está en crisis, señores, ayudémosla hoja a hoja.  Ferré, Providence, 2009Fernández Mallo, Antibiótico, 2012Vilas, Gran Vilas, 2012Vilas, Aire nuestro, 2009Calvo, Los ríos Dos días por cada minuto

The New Sentence

  Pretty words I found reading Ron Silliman. Some of them, he meant to write but didn’t get to. hallucinated dreamlike interwoven emphasis closure rhythm absence shaping syllogistic move deduce   huracán   emotional   The sentence is the horizon,   border torque polysemy   silencio líquido A.