The Rhetoric of HTML
These are teasers for chapters of an online "book" Writing
With Images. They are unfinished and
spare in the fashion of web-writing. Many of them are several
years old, but they still receive some visitors.
- Satire:Two "classic" sites
for satire: DadaNetCircus and Distorted Barblie.
[For more on web
satire, see Writing With Images,
5.3: Images in net.art.satire]
- Dada Photomontage and
Hypertext Mapping:Imagemaps and perspectives on
information
- Art and the Semiotics of
Images: Three Questions About Visual Meaning.
[For more
on word/image in web writing, see Writing With Images, 1.5:
Word-Image Chains
- Writing With Images: Towards a Semiotics of the Web. A much fuller and more systematic treatment of visual meanings.
- e-passagen: a machine for thinking. Matchings of image and textoids from Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project—mostly 19th century Paris, but with some displacements and slippages of strict chronology. Accompanies the next item.
- Montage/Critique:
Another Way of Writing Social History Discussion of how adequate juxtaposition/collage is as a mode for doing cultural critique. Fraces the problematic from Benjamin through his various emulators on line. Appeared in PostModern Culture.
- Flickr Photographers and the History of Art; Flickr photographers and groups who forge conenctions (and identities) by making remakes/homages to masterpieces of painting.
George L. Dillon
University of Washington
December 2008