#edison's_light

This is pertinent to my project… invention from prior knowledge/prior meaningful spaces. Adds the idea of invention out of prior discourses or frames of reference. Bazerman 349. 

What it means to "invent light" is different depending on who you're presenting the invention to… Bazerman 339. 

But there are other ways this book could have been read, and I caught a glimpse of some of those lenses as I worked my way through Bazerman's text. There is the lens of genre, the lens of communication, etc. And then there is the lens employed by the previous owner of this book: the lens of fact gathering. Whoever owned my book previously underlined liberally, and one of their primary concerns was with facts. They included marginal notes reiterating the "important" points on each page--dates, people's names, info about patents. Whoever read this book previously invented their own meaning, which was to learn about Edison. To remember dates and particulars. Just as Edison built a light that was, in reality, so many things, so too did this book offer layers waiting to be mined for meaning.