Clouds, Graphs, and Maps: CCC from a Distance

Slide 1: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive Clouds, Graphs, Maps CCC from a Distance Derek N. Mueller Syracuse University CCCC New York, NY | March 24, 2007

Slide 2: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive http://inventio.us/ccc/

Slide 3: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive “Distant reading: where distance… is a condition of knowledge: it allows you to focus on units that are much smaller or much larger than the text: devices, themes, tropes—or genres and systems.” Franco Moretti – “Conjectures”

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Slide 6: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive “Graphesis is premised on the idea that an image, like a text, is an aesthetic provocation, a field of potentialities, in which a viewer intervenes. Knowledge is not transferred, revealed, or perceived, but is created through a dynamic process.” Johanna Drucker, “Graphesis”

Slide 7: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive http://tagline.earthwidemoth.com/cccexp/issues.html

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Slide 12: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive Implications 3. CCC Online Archive is more than a mirror; it adds to CCC, offering features the printed journal cannot. 4. Visual models demand that we revisit claims and propositions about disciplinary trends and patterns, including future trajectories. 5. Distant reading prompts us to explore how such knowledge might concretely change the ways we work. http://inventio.us/ccc/

Slide 13: Distant Reading | Abstracts | Visual Models | Clouds | Graphs | Maps | CCC Online Archive Clouds, Graphs, Maps CCC from a Distance Derek N. Mueller Syracuse University CCCC New York, NY | March 24, 2007