Almir Hodo (Mentor)
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That would certainly be a good theory and potential explanation! It could very well be that the increasing global anglicization influenced the results. Other factors one might also consider is the influence of schools, the increasing presence of English as a subject in curricula throughout primary and secondary education as well as globalization as a...
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I think it might be best to think of the use of the word 'apparition' in its most literal sense here - a ghost-like, i.e. flickering appearence. The faces appear in the dark mass of the crowd for but a moment; they flicker in and out of the viewer's field of vision as they turn this and that way. In a way their motion makes them ephemereal as they pop in and...
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@AndreaM(BaselStudent) Perfect! I just noticed that some portion of the website's UI design must have broken down over the years. The conversations still seem largely accessible but the layout has gone a bit sideways, as they say. Glad to hear that it's (somewhat) working though!
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That's actually a very good question, Elodie. I think what might be crucial in regards to hyper-reading is indeed the "hyper" aspect of it - meaning the transition from text to text happens in an instant and at a speed that isn't possible in the physical medium. Hyper-reading thus would be a mode of lay reading that only becomes accessible through the comfort...
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Dear Andrea,
When you try opening the hyperlink, does it just open a blank page? I tried stripping the hyperlink down for you, let me know if either of these two works:
https://thegoldennotebook.org/book/p376/index.html
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I own Aaron Dembski Bowden's "Horus Heresy: Betrayer" both in print and ebook format. Due to the rather dense and at times heavy nature of its content, I find reading this sci-fi novel much more appealing in print. An ebook feels so impersonal to me, completely unsuited for leisure reading. I enjoy the weight of a book, its smell, texture, the rustle of pages...
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The cell phone is a very divisive piece of technology and has changed much of our lives for better and for worse simultaneously, I'd like to think. Naturally, we now hold more potential information in our hands than anyone did 50 years ago. We hold means of nigh unlimited entertainment in our hands, for a comparatively paltry price if considered in a wider...
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As some have already remarked, this question elicits the same response in me as any question asking about uses and limitations of other ways of reading. It is a tool, a tool of our "profession" so to say, and as such, I'd say that it is only truly valuable if used in conjunction with the other tools at our disposition. As someone who paints a lot, I have a...
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What strikes me everytime when reading about techniques such as "close reading" or "distant reading" is that surely people must have been doing this ages before we started making these definitions. Is this our equivalent of the roman legionary making fire without having a clear understandement about the chemical, perhaps even physical properties of such a...
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A photograph of cherry tress from the 1910s
A photograph is a snapshot of life, of existence, something that once was and never again will be in that exact state. The moment a photograph is made, it becomes a window into history. However, even if it is a direct, photonic translation of materiality on to an image, it is not necessarily the objective truth. A...
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I definitely agree with this. I think that sometimes the context of literary production is just too important to the full scope of the product itself to be just disregarded, even if such literary productions might makle up only a small quantity of the whole of literary production.
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I think that the collaborative practice is a natural addition and even extension of working with literature. There is only to be gained from discussing experiences and interpretations of text. We do not have to accept or agree with views of other readers, but we can try and entertain any and every viewpoint and look at a text in a new way, even if we...
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@DanielaLang(Baselstudent) While I agree that Wikipedia really needs some tighter editing control and surveillance in terms of who edits or creates pages and where that information comes from, I think giving up the name to the public is the wrong day to go about this as on one hand I feel that this comes uncomfortably close to infringing on privacy, but on the...
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As many have said, I use search engines such as Google or the University's literature search engine to filter out what I need, and then I start skimming through the material to find something that is more closely related to my interests or demands than just the rough filter. I cut and paste what I specifically need or could need and then impose whatever...
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The opposition of how a "silence underlies" all "our words" (Line 3) strikes me as particularly interesting. The poem does not indicate what sort of silence underlies the spoken words, only that that there is this presence of the unsaid. The poem only specifies that it is "an earnest, vivid thought", that none of the participants in this conversation dare or...
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@AnnOates This is what struck me the most. "Apparition" is a descriptive that, to me, si clearly tied to something ethereal and potential unreal or illusory, but certainly dreadful or goose-bump inducing.
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"Apparition" is a very interesting choice of word, as it not only implies that the faces are fleeting, but that they have a sort of mystical, ethereal quality, or at least it does so to me. An apparition is something unnerving, ghostly and wraith-like to my understanding, so the faces are not just something material, but immediately evoke an image of dread.
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I don't think I can really pick a specific way of reading as a favourite, as I think that all of them play an elemental role in sifting through masses of literature, finding a particular subsection one has an interest in, and then working through it by close reading.
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Discussing a read text can be a fascinating and stimulating mental experience, if one is into that sort of thing. However, depending on what exactly one reads, it can become increasingly difficult to find actual people to discuss literature with. Say, in my surrounding I will have little issue to find someone to discuss Brecht's Dreigroschenroman or anything...
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When it comes to academia, I prefer to start out with distant reading to gain an overview of the field at hand, before then close reading into the particular subsections that interest me and analyzing them more closely. So I suppose I'll have to go with a mixed approach.
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Hyper reading, to me, is a quintessential tool of the modern age. Accessability of information is key in my everyday work- and study-life. It allows me to gain a most basic and cursory understanding of any topic at hand, from where on I can employ close reading to explore topics, authors and similar that actually interest me.
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The choice of medium depends on the task at hand for me. If I am rereading something for a paper then I'd like to have it in digital format purely for the sake of searchability. For absolutely everything else I prefer paper, as it just feels like a more satisfying all-around experience to me.
