What an Artist Is The city of Peekskill has redefined the word "artist" as part of its zoning code: "Artist: An individual who practices one of the fine design, graphic, musical, literary, computer or performing arts; or an individual whose profession relies on the application of the above-mentioned skills to produce a creative product; i.e. an architect, craftsperson, photographer, etc".
A father and son acting duo, literary academics and computer scientists have teamed up on a project to mark the centenary of James Joyce's first novel.
Although a rarity in literary fiction, the computer metaphor is of course a staple of sci-fi, underpinning the principle of memory-erasure in stories such as Philip K Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (filmed as Total Recall).
The other leg is a reading room, with one wall devoted to magazines (heavy on literary, art and computer titles) and another to books (a collection that ranges from volumes on Jewish mysticism to Hunter S. Thompson's "Proud Highway").
Bell's major books — "The End of Ideology," "The Coming of Post-Industrial Society," "The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism," each with its cosmological title — contain whole libraries of thought, ancient and modern, on philosophy, sociology and psychology, economics and technology, history and law, with excursions into literary theory and computer science.
Last fall, Congress adopted the library's recommendation that when the copyright safeguards malfunction on "literary works, including computer programs and databases," that an individual has legally purchased, the person be allowed to use technology like the software Mr. Sklyarov developed to regain reading access to the work.
Theodor H. Nelson, the media philosopher who coined the word "hypertext," called computers "literary machines," and that's an excellent way to think of hypertext novels.
Used earlier for the generation of concordances in literary analysis and other computer applications in the humanities, full-text indexing placed great demands on computer storage because the resulting index is at least as large as the body of the text.
Researchers came to games from disparate fields: computer science, literary studies and film studies.
In recent years she has preferred to strive for fluency with literary language rather than computer code.
The event attracted historians, literary scholars, psychologists and computer scientists, including more than a few "note-makers" (as the current terminology would have it) eager to play with the possibilities of paper and screen.
