How has online culture seeped into creative writing and restructured our understanding of narrative? In this course, we will examine texts that have been stylistically and philosophically influenced by the internet and contrast them with short works (essays and stories) from pre-internet periods. The aim of this study is to discern shifts in the representation of human experience, and to discover what these shifts suggest about the more delicate facets of existence: emotion, embodiment, and cognition. This knowledge will then be put to practical use in weekly writing assignments geared towards dissecting, enhancing, and vivifying the writing process. Readings will include "Pattern Recognition," "Letters to a Young Poet," "Information Age," "IMAGE MUSIC TEXT," "No One is Talking About This," "The Gay Science" and "Something Speaks to Me." Essays include, "Three Ways of Being-With Technology," "A Global Neuromancer," and "The White Album." |