Solitary                       Musings

What Samuel Pepys did for the diary in 17th century England is revitalized in the academy in the 21st century. Centuries of studicians¹ suffered the toil of lengthy paper-writing, however the dawn of the 21st century found Pepys favored form return in the classroom. Below lie the reconstructed remnants of Genis' course work, composed alongside a collective of other studicians. Unlike the Romantic novel or the pastoral lyric, these critical pieces offer Genis' responses to questions about various pieces she had read. What is important here is not the text in question, but the astute, concise, at times prolix account of the readings.

Genis' archive was arranged chronologically and has been left in that manner, for easier reading and contextualization.

First Steps into the Electronic Blue 8-29-07

Thematics and Anxiety in "Twelve Blue" 9-19-07

Understanding Theoretics 9-26-07

Linked: The Experiment 10-3-07:

M1

M2

M3

M4

M5

A Peek In Hyperfiction: on "Victory Garden" 10-10-07

Genre and Form 10-17-07

Coding the Text: on "Galatea" 10-24-07

Hyperpaperbacks: on "House of Leaves" 10-31-07

Digitized Lyricism: on "riverIsland" 11-7-07

Hyper-Humanology: on "Lexia to Perplexia" 11-14-07

Narrative rEvolutions: on "LG15" and "Second Life." 11-28-07  

Fragmentary Meditations on "House of Leaves" 12-05-07

1. Mid 21st century term for the "reader/writer," (an allusion to Barthes' "readerly and writerly texts.") Studicians are professional readers and reviewers who engage in research of their own reading practices. They began to take the place of the author and lecturer in Queens, NY, during 2006. These individuals wrote the texts they interpreted and vice versa following the great Manuscript Massacre, in which libraries were burned and new texts had to be rapidly produced for study. Studicians took it upon themselves to fill the shelves with their notes on years of collegiate reading.