#end of class

(I love your writing so so much. I look at your blog every single day to see if you wrote something new I love you.)

ugh

I know it's not canon.....that's the point weirdo's

you speak your truth babes

All in all, I’m very happy that I took this class. I thought it was a great upper-division seminar and I think I learned a lot just by asking questions and thinking about the class in the context of modern life and technology. Reading all of the different kinds of content and learning about “distant reading,” paired with the ubiquitous nature of data and quantitative information, forced me to take a step back and reflect deeply upon the way I use technology on a day-to-day basis, as well as the ways in which the digital age affects the way I read and interpret texts.

There’s so much content out there, from novels to political discourse to personal blogs, and we play such a large role in creating it every second. And the fact that we’re constantly inundated with it changes the way we pay attention to it. It almost necessitates distant reading, simply because we don’t have the attention span or the mental capacity to pay such close attention to everything. I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing...it’s just a demonstration of the way that the world is changing and the way literature itself is changing, both the way it’s written and the way it’s read. I do think it’s a little sad, though, that people don’t put as much thought into literary interpretation in general anymore. It’s sad that we have such short attention spans, that we can only digest information in small tidbits, or read at surface-level. It’s sad that we are distant readers, when writers have poured out their hearts and souls into their work.

And I'm standing there like