the great escape from the prison house of language: games, production studies, and the humanities
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the great escape from the prisonhouse
of language Sebastian Deterding (@dingstweets)
Digital Creativity Labs, University of York DiGRA/FDG 2016, August 3, 2016
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know, dear reader, that i, too was once a young humanities scholar …
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… taught by my mentors …
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… that all possible knowledge is already contained within the walls of the library.
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to venture into the world outside the library was to flirt with temptation and the eternal damnation of my very soul.
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out there were the people that our texts referred to.
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the people that read our texts.
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the people that wrote our texts.
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but we must be wary never to speak with these people. for the meaning and truth of our texts never be revealed by the people; they are revealed only by other texts.
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this my mentors and their texts taught me.
Wimsat & Beardsley, 1949 Barthes, 1967 Foucault, 1969
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meaning
a simple model
author text
writes
intends
reader
interp
rets
is read by
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meaning
new criticism, formalism, structuralism: the meaning is in the text (form)
text
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meaning
discourse analysis, new historicism: the meaning is in other texts
textcontextcontext contextcontext
contextcontext contextcontext
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meaning
deconstruction: you will never reach meaning outside texts
texttext text…
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all of which is true
iff …
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all of which is true
you never dare to venture outside the library.
iff …
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the great taboo: is the practice of solitary reading and writing in the library necessary and sufficient to understand cultural meaning-making?
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the beauties outside the library.
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(just speaking of and with authors, for now.)
author
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understanding the effectiveness of persuasive communication
author text reader
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meaning
understanding and improving creative practice
author text
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constraining spurious contextualising readings
author text
context
context
context
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discovering new contextual readings
author text
context
context
context
context
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discovering new contextual readings
author text
context
context
context
context
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understanding how contexts affect texts
author textcontext
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meaning
understanding the gaps and relations of meaning-making
author text
writes
intends
reader
is read by
interp
rets
scholar