{"id":7,"date":"2011-10-03T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/digitaltalks\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T16:25:02","slug":"remembering-networks-agrippa-rose-and-network-archaeology-by-alan-liu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/lectures\/remembering-networks-agrippa-rose-and-network-archaeology-by-alan-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE, and Network Archaeology by Alan Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-29\" title=\"Alan Liu Giving his talk on Remembering Networks\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/05\/alanliu01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.7178836208768189\">ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1992, at the onset of the digitally networked aged, publisher Kevin Begos, Jr., artist Dennis Ashbaugh, and novelist William Gibson issued their collaborative artist book\u00a0<em>Agrippa (a book of the dead)<\/em>, whose last pages contained a self-encrypting, \u201cvanishing\u201d poem on a diskette. The poem immediately went viral on the networks and clinched\u00a0<em>Agrippa\u2019s<\/em>\u00a0status as a prototypical networked book or \u201cbook that became a network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Basing his talk on Agrippa as well as on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/agrippa.english.ucsb.edu\/\"><em>The Agrippa Files<\/em><\/a>\u00a0site that he and graduate students built to document the book\u2019s media and contexts, Alan Liu speculated on how a \u201cnetwork archaeology\u201d might be possible that extends the scholarly approaches of \u201cmedia archaeology\u201d and \u201cthe history of the book\u201d to past works that are networked.<\/p>\n<p>Liu concluded with a presentation of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu\/category\/research-project\/rose\">RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment)<\/a>\u00a0online system that the Transliteracies Project he directs created to capture networks of past writers, readers, and works through present social-network technologies.\u00a0RoSE is built on the following rules:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat individual works of media as proto or micro-networks<\/li>\n<li>Treat micro-networks of individual works as part of a macro-network<\/li>\n<li>Treat the past as a network<\/li>\n<li>Treat past and present networks differentially<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.7178836208768189\">BIO<br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-46\" title=\"Alan Liu\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2015\/05\/alanliu03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" \/>Professor Liu is<a href=\"http:\/\/liu.english.ucsb.edu\/\"> Chair and Professor of the English Department<\/a> at the University of California, Santa Barbara, an affiliated faculty member of UCSB\u2019s Media Arts &amp; Technology graduate program, and the author of <em>The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information<\/em>, and <em>Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database<\/em>. He founded the NEH funded <em>Teaching with Technology<\/em> project at UC Santa Barbara, <em>Transcriptions: Literature and the Culture of Information,<\/em> and the University of California multi-campus, collaborative research group,<em><a href=\"http:\/\/transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu\/category\/research-project\"> Transliteracies<\/a>: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABSTRACT In 1992, at the onset of the digitally networked aged, publisher Kevin Begos, Jr., artist Dennis Ashbaugh, and novelist William Gibson issued their collaborative artist book\u00a0Agrippa (a book of the dead), whose last pages contained a self-encrypting, \u201cvanishing\u201d poem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/lectures\/remembering-networks-agrippa-rose-and-network-archaeology-by-alan-liu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/104"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/digitaltalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}