Mudpit: Naming & Noticing
Your small-groupmates helped you get a start on this phase of analysis on your text or artifact. Now you’ll extend this phase in your mudpit by adding a whole bunch of concrete, specific things you notice about your thing.
It’ll help to have your text or artifact in front of you so you can examine it closely. Failing that, check out an image or schematic on the internet. Do what you can to get your artifact in front of you so you don’t have to go from memory.
Remember to slow down & pay attention to each detail. Resist making judgments or jumping ahead to conclusions now, because they’ll most likely be pretty obvious, shallow interpretations. Remember, too, that the more time and energy you sow in the early stages of analysis, the more goodness you’ll be reap in the meaning-making phase.
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Process Writing for “Billy Sim” (remember to bring your annotated copy to class so you can refer to it in discussion)
Mandatory one: From p. 16: “Clearly, video technology cages imagination; it offer interesting information to use, but it implies that all peripheral information is irrelevant and off-limits. Computers make children advance faster, but they also make them think like computers.”
Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why? Back up your claims with specific evidence.
How do Klosterman’s ideas develop as the essay goes on? How are they challenged (by himself and others)? Does he seem to change his mind about anything? Is your mind changed about anything?
Process Writing for “Porn”
Think about the way that your generation uses the Internet. What does it say about your generation? What can it “teach us about ourselves?” (Klosterman 112) What is it that you all want?
Is it different from what you all want in real life (like Klosterman’s example on page 113 of the guy in the bar)? If so, how do you account for the difference? What does the difference say about the internet and/or your generation?
Pornography was a big driver of internet growth in its first decade. Social media has driven the better part of the last decade. In the way that Klosterman “reads” internet porn, read social media. What does it say about us? About what we want?