tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post7624848766025527637..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Marcuse and House of LeavesAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-40628565485187042312012-04-14T11:25:38.430-04:002012-04-14T11:25:38.430-04:00This is interesting but a little bit rough. To ma...This is interesting but a little bit rough. To make it function better, I think you needed to try to use *less* of Marcuse's text, but to apply Danielewski's text more directly than your'e doing here. In other words, you might analyze one of Johny or Lude's sexual escapades (for instance, "Lude's List" and "Lude's List Revisited" which you reference in your short blog entry this week), using Marcuse's thoughts on eroticism, or on commodification.<br /><br />The idea that Johnny is a worker producing a commodity is an interesting one - personally, I'd relate it to the idea that he's trying to trap something about the book (the scary part) by making it *only* a book again - maybe he's taking something which *isn't* inherently a commodity, and trying to transform it into one?<br /><br />There's nothing about your approach which is wrong here. If you were revising, though, you'd want to be much more focused - covering less ground in a longer, more detailed essay, essentially.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com