Came across this webtool on Colin Brooke's blog: good, clean fun. It will read any plain text document (and you can just cut and paste from a Word document). Here's what my prospectus looks like as a tag cloud:
already audience being beyond changes chapter communication composition consider control delivery dialectical difference digital ethics explore human information invention knowledge levinas levinas' mcluhan media metaphysical ong opens others philosophical philosophy plato platonic postmodern question rather reason relationship rhetoric social subject terms theory thinking toward truth upon violence work world writing
created at TagCrowd.com
Pretty much what I would expect, though I'm a bit surprised that Derrida doesn't have a presence... well, perhaps its fitting that he only haunts the document.
5 comments:
Is this a poem?
If it is, its certainly a cyborg poem--I didn't write it, but neither did the machine. It marks the intersection between man and machine, its the machine's "reader-response" to my work.
I think it would be cool to use with freshmen essays, to let them see what a "neutral" perspective reads in their paper.
GOD this is awesome. In this I see the beginning of a new era that will be marked by the aesthetic dissertation:
We will write our 300 pages, and then create this visual tag-map...
And that is all that will be published. Isn't the rest just filler anyways?
Hopefully I'll remember to talk to you about this:
But what's really cool is that the tags are actually links--tagCrowd leaves the user responisble for going in and creating those links. So, were I to spend a few hours with this code in conjunction with wikipedia, amazon, librarything, and other such things (notice how I didn't say "libraries"...hmm...), you'd really have something incredible.
I can't wait to finish my memoir and run it through here. I also can't wait to run the full text of Paradise Lost through here because I think God might pop out, quite literally.
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