Archive for July 2009
Post-It Notes
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 31, 2009
I’m reading Marginalia by H. J. Jackson, and I started wondering how marginalia — and the whole practice of writing in/on books — might have begun to change with the invention of the Post-it note. Then I realized that I don’t even know when Post-it notes were invented! Then I thought of Romy and Michele’s [...]
Nameless Letter
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 22, 2009
I came across a new scrap writing website about a month ago but was apparently too lazy to post about it, until now. It’s called Nameless Letter and it’s part public art project, part ongoing scavenger hunt. Like the wonderful blog People Reading, Nameless Letter represents reading as a communal activity, something for people to [...]
CFP
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 18, 2009
A cool call for papers dealing with ephemeral texts — their value and how to work with them (especially given recent technological advancements in the preservation and dissemination of texts) — is located here. (Why doesn’t it include rhetoric and composition as one of the many “cfp categories” into which it’s placed?)
Random Plug
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 14, 2009
Wow, check out this awesome grad course being offered in NYU’s English department this fall: The Social Life of Paper!
Random Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 10, 2009
“To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs.” From: Perec, Georges. Species of Spaces and Other Pieces. Ed. and trans. John Sturrock. New York: Penguin [...]
Random (Long) Quotation
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 9, 2009
“There are few events which don’t leave a written trace at least. At one time or another, almost everything passes through a sheet of paper, the page of a notebook, or of a diary, or some other chance support (a Métro ticket, the margin of a newspaper, a cigarette packet, the back of an envelope [...]
Scrap People
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 8, 2009
In considering how to describe and categorize scrap writing, I’m wondering about the people behind scrap writing websites. Who are they, and how did they get into the scrap writing business? Found: A host of people are behind this enormous project and its various instantiations — the magazine, the books, the website — but perhaps [...]
Another Blog Becomes a Book
Posted by: dkoupf on: July 2, 2009
Cake Wrecks is a wonderful blog devoted to cataloging and critiquing errors, inaccuracies, and blatant atrocities in professional cakes. Its creator writes, A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate – you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it’s simply one I find funny, for any [...]
My Scraps
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