Paper Topic Extension

Since we're running behind a bit after the two weeks of attending readings, I'm deferring the paper topic for one week. Basically, the idea is for you to look ahead in the course -- scanning through the reading material, reflecting on the possible connections between different books -- and come up with a broad idea for a topic. I'm not expecting perfection here, just a general direction that you wish to head in. But you have an extra week in which to pull something together now.

Comments

[Megan]

In an attempt to revive the neglected class blog:

I was wondering what people thought of the title, _Artificial Respiration_. The introduction's take on it I don't think I understand.

The procedural artificial respiration deals with an immediacy (choking, drowning, etc.) that I feel like the novel impedes, slows down, while I feel that that immediacy is still, somewhere, there.

Is there any way this book is meant to clean the airway (airwaves?) of some blockage or to make way for new information? Is the "code" in there, if there is code?

Then there is the linguistic and meaningful link between artificial and artifice.

I take meaning from the title through my reading of the novel's relationship to the speech/writing dichotomy; I see artificial respiration in the "copying of speech" by the so-called canonical Argentine authors Renzi refers to.

Later in the novel Kafka is exiled into a world of writing, unable to speak (paired narratively with the moment in which Hitler speaks and writes, dictating _Mein Kampf_). Writing here, for Kafka, functions as “fallen speech,” and becomes a kind of artificial respiration.

But I'm much more interested in the term "Artificial Respiration" as it relates to historical trauma (James, help me out?), to the dissapeared, to the exiled (language is important there) and to the already dead.

Thoughts?

[el fastman]

Some random facts:

1
The relationship between decoding and reading is an interesting one which has been played out in the real world. A handful of Yale New Critics were very involved with the OSS, the precursor to the CIA, in the early stages of the Cold War, precisely due to their attention to "close-reading."

2
The dude (I can't remember his name, so I'll call him dude) who invented Winamp and Gnutella also created a private file-sharing program for smaller groups of people that he named WASTE. Also, while I was in the bathroom at the library the other day, I noticed that somebody wrote W.A.S.T.E. on a stall. It's good to know that our vandalizers are literate.

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