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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 227–230.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 217–222.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2012
... objects from the natural world and informing them, i.e. changing the world. But apparatuses do not work in this sense. Their intention is not to change the world, but to change the meaning of the world. Their intention is symbolic. Fitterman's aim, also, is to draw a parallel between Flusser's focus...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 111–131.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., as described through the poetic devices present in fuller versions, inform one another. The intersection of these arcs encodes a matrix of human responses to catastrophic climate change specific to the narrative’s home biome. 60 Sewatohkwatshera’t, usually translated as “the Dish with One Spoon,” represents...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Cheryl Savageau Abstract When I listen to the old stories, I am struck by the attention the Ancestors gave to the world around them, and how that informs the old stories, how the Ancestors were reading the Land. The Land, for us, is epistemologically and ontologically primary. That is to say, we...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 96–115.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of Water . Whereas in The Handmaid’s Tale the river is configured doubly as a site of bodily violation wherein violence against queer characters is palpable but also as a space that informs nostalgic reunion for queer female community, in The Shape of Water hydro-eroticism speaks to the fraught and layered...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of historical trauma? How might they function as prosthetic memories, at once disturbing and informative to readers who might otherwise not be exposed to those histories at all? What are the ethical implications of horror elicited by fictional representations of historical suffering? This article engages...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 21–34.
Published: 01 October 2020
... personal experience and that of his tribal nation of how Indigenous memory and inquiry can inform research practices that are relational and not exploitive. Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Native Indigenous medieval research decolonization At the heart of any...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2022
... rebel occupied a unique globally legible location. Revisiting the popular reportage and writing on the Indian Rebellion, this essay argues that cannabis was materialized through the rebel’s body as the rationale for victory, loss, and disorder to ultimately inform and reveal how the reproduction of race...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 161–163.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... In other words, tools inform objects.The removed objects thus acquire an unnatural, im probable form , and they become cultural objects.This productive and inform ative action is called "work," and its result is called "a work." Some works, such as apples, for example, have been produced w ithout having...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 115–124.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and retain the entirety o f a given survey? Is the best educational outcome that we can hope for their selective recall o f works and ideas? And how much and what kind of inform ation is accessed and processed by students during one course? In m y experience, a literature course usually creates highlights...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 133–134.
Published: 01 March 2016
... the population. Launched in 1801, the census marked a pivotal moment in the state's attem pt to know its constituents. For the firs t time in the nation's history, the mass body became legible, as the numbers gleaned from the census made inform ation about the population available at unprecedented levels.4...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 101–112.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of attaining environm ental inform ation has morphed into one of managing environm ental sensation. Or, to play o ff the title of a recent collection, numbers have turned to nerves.1 W hat can we learn about environm ental culture and interpretive approaches if we regard inform ation, sensation, and feeling...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 63–73.
Published: 01 March 2013
... mentioning the telegraph by name, the opening chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's History o f England (1848) invokes the new topos o f seamless, automatic, wired inform ation when it contrasts the m odern era o f journalism , com m unication, and publicity w ith medieval society: We live in a highly...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 138–141.
Published: 01 April 2024
... in 2002. 5 Long connects this issue to a preponderance of false newspaper articles about Dickens, and to the existence of what we call “fake news” in newspapers of the 1860s: stories of doubtful or unknown origin, offered with the intention of circulating information known to be false. “Hoaxing...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 197–206.
Published: 01 March 2014
... wall plaques to map the concept o f the show. One m ajor exception to this use of wall text occurs through the Bigger Picture caption project atTate M odern in London, where alternative captions w ritten by museum guests hang along­ side the art historical inform ation of the standard caption. One...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (2): 145–147.
Published: 01 September 2013
... inherited ways and habits have left us blind to see but they also make mere critics into "m akers" by leveraging the speed and inform ation-processing o f com­ puters to do things that human readers cannot do for themselves.The fact that much of the best w ork In this emerging field has, as W itm ore...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 193–197.
Published: 01 March 2008
... w orld, where the special bulletin is "fired o ff" across space and through sound waves, and the intangible realm of the ideolog­ ical, where the sym bolic meaning o f whatever inform ation or impact the report carries hits home in the mind. The etymological similarities that connect the technologic...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to conceal. It provides empirical evidence and quantitative information for histories of slavery and the slave trade, but these numbers deny the human experience, allow us to take comfort in abstraction, and reveal themselves “for the fictions that they were—false representations meant to make a stark...
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., the contagion of rev­ olution and violence was w ith in the body politic and thus needed to be contained to prevent the exterm ination of the empire. This vision was informed by nascent theories of life that, as Travis Chi W ing Lau argues, w ould also have been informed by debates about im m unology...