1. discuss what type of time most influences yours and others' lives based on TWITTER. Were you at all affected by what your peers were writing? Did anything unanticipated happen that ruptured your daily construct of living?
Based on Twitter, I persist that chaos time most influences yours and others' lives. As I logged on Twitter account and followed my classmates' posts, I followed what their posts meant to be. For example, when Jessica posted that there was snow outside in the early morning, I first looked at the outside through the window. Moreover, when Prof. Dana posted that BBC and BAPE are on sale, I did not know that what BBC and BAPE were. Therefore, I researched those on the web. In my opinion, these two cases can not be anticipated. In other owrds, both happened utterly in random. I did not even guess not only Prof. Dana posted for the sale of BBC and BAPE but also Jessica posted about snow outside in the early morning. They might have more other words to post than those above; they could post their favorite movie star, study, or food eaten in dinner. l had certain events which were completely random. When I walk on the street as usual, my left ankle was suddenly sprained. Moreover, on the last few weeks, the U.S. dollar rate was not stablized; it kept horribly increased.
2. Spend about 15 minutes playing with the hypertext reading of Borges' text. What do you think the designer intended for us to learn through this hypertext activity? Did you find yourself running in circles? Were you attracted to certain words more than others? If so, what do you think this says about you?
With the sentence from hypertext "he believed in an infinite series of times, a growing, dizzying web of divergent, convergent, and parallel times.",
I think that the designer intended for us to learn through this hypertext activity emphasizes an infinite series of times.
In fact, when I Saw the words "infinite series of times" and "that fabric of times", one thing is just flashed on me. That is Mobius strip. It has many similarities with the definition of times he mentioned in hypertext; it has a number of straight lines and converging and diverging curves.
I feel that I am walking on the Mobius strip over and over. It will be stopped only by the death.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
One of my professors used to repeat one opinion about life, people tend to repeat their mistakes. I think that is why some “circles” created. I don’t agree with him. Life is never as a circle if you can stop and look at it. Everyday is different and treasury. Because I am not brave, I always scare of death since I was little. Therefore, from long time ago, I started to ask myself “what should I do now if I will die tomorrow?” Standing in other angle, you might find out more interesting in life. Helen Keller prayed for “the light of a brighter day”. How lucky we are, enjoying all those sunny and raining days!
ReplyDeleteThe increase of U.S. dollar rate is not the worst one yet. Have you read the article about U.S. will be bankruptcy predicted by a Russian economist?
I like your idea bout the mobius strip and time. I don't know that repeating mistakes is necessarily a "bad" thing--Oscar Wilde once said that the secret to staying young forever is to repeat your mistakes over and over.
ReplyDelete:)
I like your view on the twitter experience. Based on your examples you can see why you believe in the chaotic time.As far as the hypertext goes, i think your view on what was meant for us to get out of the text was incredible. I was completely lost and when i read your post it helped m greatly.
ReplyDelete