{"id":2163,"date":"2024-05-30T00:33:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2024-05-30T00:41:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T05:41:42","slug":"weeknote-for-5-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/30\/weeknote-for-5-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 5\/19\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I took my mnemonic wanderings in new directions\u2014poetry and movement\u2014while continuing my experiments with narrative.<\/strong> I finished listening to Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers<\/em>, transcriptions of lectures by Marcel Jousse<\/a> introducing his groundbreaking work from the 1930s on the orality of ancient Palestine. He revealed their culture to be based significantly on a \u201crhythmo-melodic\u201d style of speaking meant for creating and sustaining an oral tradition, which is an idea I want to look into for my own memory practices. So I picked up an encyclopedia of poetics<\/a> to help me explore forms, along with some books of a evocative<\/a> words<\/a> and names<\/a> to help me name landmarks and a dictionary of allusions<\/a> for extra metaphor ideas.<\/p>\n

Taking a queue from Anastasia Woolmer<\/a>‘s comments quoted in Lynne Kelly\u2019s Memory Craft<\/em>, I began looking into various types of movement as a source for mnemonics, focusing on dance and sign language. On dance, I concluded I needed to familiarize myself more with the territory before I invested in reference books, but on sign language I concluded my long-standing search for an authoritative dictionary, choosing The Gallaudet Dictionary of American Sign Language<\/em>, published by Gallaudet University, a leading institution in the deaf arena.<\/p>\n

On the neighborhood narrative experiment, I had an image generator show me my characters and had Bing AI create a backstory for it, then asked some bots for five-act stories based on that before deciding it\u2019d be easier to base the stories on the landmarks than to name the landmarks based on arbitrary stories.<\/p>\n

For my PAO list, I asked ChatGPT to come up with actions, objects, and locations for my people, but although its ideas were on target, they were much more generic than I needed, so I’ll have to iterate on it.<\/p>\n

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I finished assembling a Windows background slideshow of a bunch of my liminal space photos from the past year.<\/strong> So now I can pretend I’m working in empty hallways and forgotten corners.<\/p>\n

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