Colloquium 2991:
Literatures of the 21st Century
Links to online
class materials:
Blogs of interest
An interesting video on the evolution of
digital text
Read Geoff Ryman’s hypertext
novel, 253
Our contributions to 253, The Sequel
Wired
magazine’s six
word stories
Neil Gaiman on authors
auctioning content in their work
Bruce Sterling’s “Slipstream
Manifesto” from SF Eye
Read
the online literary magazine Spork
Read
the online literary magazine Forklift,
Ohio
Susan Orlean’s article in The New Yorker, “Orchid
Fever”
Look at some orchids
The 2003 State
of the Union Speech
The 2002 National Intelligence
Estimate (NIE) on Iraq
“Declaration
of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places.” Osama
bin Ladin’s August 1996 fatwa published in Al Quds Al Arabi
“Freedom
from Tyranny and Fear.” Presidential Address, Sept. 20, 2001
The 9/11 Commission (the text is also
available from the Government Printing Office here)
Read Orson Scott Card’s short
story, “Ender’s
Game” (from Analog, August 1977),
the inspiration for Doctorow’s “Anda’s Game”
Artwork for Oates’s “The Cousins”