Preliminary Class Business

• Enrollment
• Wiki membership |Bio assignment 
• Readings for next class
• Teams to be formed in next class
• Bring your laptops to next class

   

Mapping Tools

• Mapping Tools in Toy Chest

  • Google Earth
    • Featured Overlays
    • KML (Keyhole Markup Language), distributed in KMZ files
  • Google Maps "My Maps"
  • Google SketchUp
    • Google 3D Warehouse
  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

• Examples of Map Projects

  • The Emigrants Project (from 2008 version of English 149)
    • Google Lit Trips

  • Charles Cumming, The 21 Steps [Online Map-Based Story]

  • Christophe Benda, Senghor on the Rocks

  • The Critical GeoWiki Experiment (from 2008 graduate course)

1. Where We Are in the Argument of This Course: Review & Overview

• Sir Thomas Wyatt, "They Flee From Me" (1557) [commentary by Ian Lancashire]

   

• Alan's hand-annotated copy of "They Flee From Me" (.pdf file)

   

• Franco Moretti, p. 1:   "But within that old territory, a new object of study: instead of concrete, individual works, a trio of artificial constructs--graphs, maps, trees--in which the reality of the text undergoes a process of deliberate reduction and abstraction.  'Distant reading' I have once called this type of approach; where distance is however not an obstacle, but a specific form of knowledge: fewer elements, hence a sharper sense of their overall interconnection.  Shapes, relations, structures.  Forms.  Models."

   

2. What is a model?

              Willard McCarty, Humanities Computing (pp. 21-22) (cf., Moretti on maps as models, 53-54) 

• Kid's models 

   

• Models for adults 
  • NASA Shuttle Model
  • Other NASA models
  • Architectural models (1 | 2)
  • Model Hurricane (1 | 2),
  • Model Mosquito (1 | 2 | 3)
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  • Terracotta army (1 | 2)
  • Stage scenery
  • Tableaux vivants

•  What models share with other forms of representation.

• What is unique about models?

  • (McCarty, pp. 25-26)

3. What is modelling? 

•     (McCarty, p. 22)

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