Daniel Anderson, Writing Pusher

I found an old cassette in a shoebox. Here is the aftermath.

Before the regular routines start to roll through the days I just want to say how much I enjoyed the 2011 Computers and Writing Conference. Since 1994, I've attended the conference, missing just a few times. There is something about C&W that makes collaboration and friendship not the usual words we pitch about our work but a tangible atmosphere that permeates inside and outside the sessions. It's always a great experience. And the hosts in Ann Arbor did a fantastic job. The panels, town halls, keynotes, and posters were informative and provocative.

A remix of a typing screencast

A screencast for "This is What I Did in My Class," this is a draft to sort out some moves. And it will somehow be woven into the performance.

 Just an endmember among the tracings for "Watch the Bubble." Some of those connections might be helpful, but it also seems to fit on its own. And it zooms out a layer from here with its remixing of the two previous posts.

I'm composing in and for the bubble tonight. The bubble reflections are a challenge since the project bubbled up some six months ago. Reflecting merely produces more forward movement, as it should. I think the main thing that will come from looking back and trying to capture the composing moves that went into such an organic project will be a new project and confirmation that nothing ever ends. All of the talk about revision that plays out in classrooms doesn't even come close to capturing the true spirit of mixing that comes from reflecting and reworking. It is not revision but the passage from emergence to performance where projects are renewed because they are brought back to life.

I want to cast some thoughts about the word, emergence. I feel like the word has become more of a symbol. We talk about emergence, say that entities emerge together, shape one another. We say that things are coemergent. But what does that mean? Do entities come into being equally? How could they? One acts upon another through a process more like performance. Another pulls from the circuit in a kind of emergence. Could we measure the flows among the entities? We could account for them as best as possible. As I type now the music sends energy in waves into the room. The wristsupport wraps the body. The words in the songs send out messages. We could say these all emerge together but they don't. Sometimes the sounds take over. Other times ideas drive the words. Sometimes the words become the material. And still we're at symbol.

With thanks for the memories.