4.0116 Collage; Cyperspace (2/39)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 23 May 90 20:07:22 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0116. Wednesday, 23 May 1990.


(1) Date: Tue, 22 May 90 23:06 EDT (22 lines)
From: BML@PSUARCH.Bitnet
Subject: belated response re midrash and collage

(2) Date: Wed, 23 May 90 11:32 MST (17 lines)
From: <RRINER@NAUVAX>
Subject: CYBERMARS

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Date: Tue, 22 May 90 23:06 EDT
From: BML@PSUARCH.Bitnet
Subject: belated response re midrash and collage

Marc Bregman a couple weeks ago posted a query about collage as a model
for the structure of midrash. There has already been some invoking of
an analagous model for such redaction according to non-diachronic
criteria. The model bases itself on cinematic montage, however, rather
than pla stic arts and has been applied to inner-biblical problematic
editing (rather than to post-biblical work). Eisenstein's (Sergei) THE
FILM SENSE about the synergy achieved in splicing divergent shots
together is particularly appropriate. For use of this model, see: R.
Alter, THE ART OF BIBLICAL NARRATIVE (New York: Basic Books, 1981) 140.

Also, Mr. Bregman, your colleague Alan Cooper at HUC (Cincinnati) has
also invoked such a model in his work, I believe several years ago in a
review in the journal STUDIES IN RELIGION; you might check with him
directly.

Hope this is of use,

Bernie Levinson, Penn State
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Date: Wed, 23 May 90 11:32 MST
From: <RRINER@NAUVAX>
Subject: CYBERMARS

Have been informed about your recent Cyberspace Conference in msg. fm
MHEIM forwarded to me. Colleague Mel Neville and I "taught" a Mars
Colony simulation this last spring: 24 students role-playing and
"MUD-gaming" in "Tiny Mars" address "telenet naucse.cse.nau.edu 5678
(for TinyMars), 4201 (for Dragon) JOPSY (John Phillip Crane) keeps house
there. Colony was linked over BIXNET to other communities in same Solar
System. We plan to do a better job in Spring semester 91 with teams/
classes on several other campuses, each smulating a "viable community"
somewhere ~2040; we get Mars again! Intent to use BITNET, sharing
syllabi among instructors, etc.

All this sounds pertinent to how your Conference was focused; we remain
open to innovations and alternatives.