Draft presentation: Week 6

For discussion at the webinar on Friday 13th July. It took a while to find the right tools to do this. In the end, I used Keynote to put together the presentation and do the voice-over. Then exported as a movie and edited in QuickTime Player before uploading to Vimeo, and embedding the video here in my CRJ. This is a first attempt at the draft. I need a couple more images – one for the spoken introduction (to go on or after the title page) and one for the end of the presentation (to go before the references). The references are a work in progress. I assume that it is OK to use the images under fair use, but would like advice on that before publicly posting the final presentation. There are a few stumbles here and there – I’ll re-record when the final form of the presentation is decided. All feedback welcome.

‘It makes no sense to ask what entropy ‘is’, as though it was possible to find in this protean signifier a transcendent signification. Instead we must ask what it meant to whom, for what reasons, in what context, and with what consequences.’

N. Katherine Hayles (1990), Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

‘Most London business occurred in plain view. Chaucer’s London is a very public city, a place where people mingle together in crowded thoroughfare’s, where they post and publish their inner thoughts and broadcast them aloud, where different forms of street theater flourish, and where public presentation of the self far overwhelms any gestures toward privacy or inwardness. Whether in small lanes and byways, or in processional and ceremonial places like Cheap, in places of assembly like St Paul’s Cross or in taverns and bakeshops, Londoners rub elbows with one another. More to the present point, they socialize’

Paul Strohm (2014), Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury, New York: Viking, p.73.