Articles
- Remote Viewing: Observations Inspired or Furthered by And They Were Two In One And One In Two
by Gary ShipleyThe Voyeurism of Heads In Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, Ash is forced to decapitate his possessed girlfriend, Linda, with a spade. But even when headless the body...
- “Banal Story”: A Hypermedia Critical Edition
by Quimby Melton"'Banal Story': A Hypermedia Critical Edition" features a reading of the overlooked -- and atypical -- Ernest Hemingway short story, a critical bibliography of relevant secondary sources, and a remixed "all text" edition of the story itself. An unauthorized, eclectic conflation of three editions of the story, the "Banal Story" all text is as much visual art as literary artifact. More broadly, the project illustrates the radical possibilities hypermedia offers 21st century manuscript studies and material textual scholarship.
- Early use of the word ‘asemic’
by Tim GazeThanks to Giles Goodland. Note: page numbers refer to the source mentioned at the end. The word 'asemic' was published in 1885, in the Society for Psychical Research's...
- Production’s “dubious advantage”: Lesescenarios, closet drama, and the (screen)writer’s riposte
by Quimby MeltonThe largely overlooked Lesescenario, or "closet screenplay," belongs to a tradition of "readerly" performance literature that can help screenwriters subvert their marginalization as writers and the marginalization of their texts as literary objects.
- The Strangeness of Realism vs. the Realism of the Strange: Themes in Synecdoche, New York
by Gary Shipley"Charlie Kaufman's film(script) can be understood as a commentary on a line from E. M. Cioran: 'He who does not believe in the impossibility of truth, or does not rejoice in it, has only one road to salvation, which he will, however, never find.'"
- Nora and Me (and Food)
by Marsha McCreadie"The instant I said, 'No, thank you,' I knew my goose was cooked. When Nora Ephron offered me some chicken cooked by her own hands, right on the cusp of my interview with her, my middle class suburban girl response was to politely decline."
- Codex Seraphinianus: Hallucinatory Encyclopedia
by Peter Schwenger"What we would get from a decoded Codex would be nothing more than the pleasure of "getting it" -- that is, cracking a code. If you are a cryptographer, that pleasure will top all others. But ... there is also a pleasure in not getting it. As long as the Codex is not pinned down ... it offers itself as an endless source of speculation about its nature vis-à-vis more orthodox encyclopedias, more familiar worlds."
- On the Codex Seraphinianus
by Kane X. Faucher"Abiding by the Cartesian dictate that even the most fabulous inventions are mixtures of known things in the world, Serafini's innovations are hybridizations of actual botanical, zoological, mechanical, and human elements sewn together in a fantastic weave of rainbow-hued creativity." (Features a selection of images from Luigi Serafini's Codex Seraphinianus.)