Week 8

27 October (synchronous Zoom class)

This week we will have a live synchronous workshop with Sxip and Coco on "Creating the Perfect Lyric". It will take place on Wednesday, 28 October 1800-1900 GST via Zoom. This is in lieu of Tuesday's class.

You can review the collective work of the class that was shared with the artists here:

Group #1 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/dhswhosthere/rlac/assignment-1

Group #2 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/learninginprogress/my-assignments/movement-interview-1-an-in-depth-yet-surface-level-analysis

Group #3 https://www.notion.so/Movement-Interviews-94e8ce70e33340a0820813aa6b465a19

Group #4 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rlac-gauthamcity/assignments/movement-interview

Group #5 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/markusha/blog/movement-interviews

Group #6 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/shinwon-rlac/assignment-1

Group #7 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rlacmaitheye/writing/assignment-1

Group #8 https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/rlac-ivana/assignment-1

In case you were unable to make class today, the recording of it can be found here.

29 October (asynchronous class)

The "Using GutenbergR" project in our RStudio account was presented earlier in the month. It allows us to import 4 texts from Project Gutenberg and study their most frequent words. I chose to work with the early American children's fiction from the "Little Cousin" series. But the notebook also allows you to pick three of your own and compare them one by one looking for the "most distinctive words" and visualize those. This idea of the most distinctive words is, incidentally, the one that Sxip and Coco seemed the most interested in for their lyric writing.

Now we are going to create a new notebook now using science fiction writers. Remember the class we had in which we spoke about how many scifi authors there are in Project Gutenberg (even after the 1920s public domain cutoff.) The notebooks is entitled: SciFi Gutenberg R.

In order for you to run the notebook in RStudio Cloud, you need to choose four works of English-language science fiction, (NB: not four authors). Browse a little bit and choose your four text corpus based on the authors that seem the most interesting to you, their themes and life trajectories. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database link in column B of the table below can be helpful in identifying themes that could be of interest (e.g. Gallun's themes include Martians, plant men, crystal folk, Pluto colony, silicon plague, etc). As you will recall the scifi/speculative fiction world is full of lots of themes. Use the PG numerical code in the notebook as a,b,c, and d for the four authors in your corpus. I have made a table for you here:

31 October (asynchronous class)

Continuation from 29 October.

Homework:

1 Quick writing (due 0600, 3 Nov) Please choose a different corpus of three science fiction texts? Tell us why you chose them and share a couple visualizations of what you found about the most distinctive words that they contain.

2 Identify 3 pieces of your own writing for an assignment that we will do in class. (1) Make sure that you do not mind other people reading this paper. (2) Please anonymize it of any personal details (name or personal information) (3) Make sure that each piece of writing has more than 2000 words. (4) Save each file with a name you will remember as yours, using this format (Pseudonym_NameOfEssay.txt). If you have written it in Word or Google docs, save it as a .txt file. If the writing has images or figures in it, that should be ok, but they will disappear when you convert it to .txt. Place your three pieces of writing in the shared drive : data > our own writing. Please complete this by 0600, 3 Nov.