User:Alex Barkett
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Biography
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy. - Samuel Beckett -
Alex Barkett is a junior English major at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He originally hails from Sacramento, California, where he was raised until moving south, to college. His central interests in the field of literature include Irish and Russian literature, electronic and new media texts, literary theory in the digital age, and creative poetry and prose. He is also interested in studying philosophy and linguistics before graduating. Outside the study of literature, he loves and admires the works of Akira Kurosawa, Wassily Kandinsky, and Radiohead, to name a few. He aspires to be a university professor, public intellectual, professional writer, film director, and sit on the supreme court, although not necessarily all at the same time.
On English 194: "This class provides a deliciously fresh, interactive portal to online publishing and the overall future of literature and literary studies as the internet gradually becomes the new medium for expression and education. Wikipedia and the wiki software are uniting ambitious people from around the world and exhibiting their collaborative efforts, with a much-needed, practical, idealistic philosophy that the culture of information is infinite, free, and something to be embraced."
For this website Alex Barkett has written Electronic Literature and the Author/Reader Paradox and Minus the Bull or How A Little French Sewing Circle Dodges the Minotaur.
Alex Barkett 09:52, 30 May 2006 (PDT)
Work Log
Created Jackson Pollock Object item. Added links (bibliography and object) to Viktoriya's essay.
20:54, 21 May 2006 (PDT)
Messed around with css stuff, changed story slightly.
Cross-linked in my essay to object items.
21:17, 26 May 2006 (PDT)
Wrote bio page.
09:52, 30 May 2006 (PDT)
Changed bio page slightly. Added Object item and did some cross-linking.
00:30, 6 June 2006 (PDT)
Added Glossary item and linked it.
Standardized bio pages, added external and internal links and edited them grammatically.
21:17, 11 June 2006 (PDT)
Looked over bio pages again, standardized Dan's, added some links
16:09, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Added a bunch of images to the Collaboration skeleton page and filled out some of the writing.
17:46, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Added more images, bibliography items.
19:16, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Added pictures to my first essay.
20:29, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
added quote to collaboration page
20:52, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
edited all writing on collaboration skeleton page for grammar and syntax errors.
22:16, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Deleted the "Michel Foucault" object page, which I originally wrote, because the same page also exists as "Foucault, Michel" which includes the same text but with an added (and creepy) picture. I am not sure how the picture got there and how there got to be two objects on there, but I just deleted the "Category:Objects" tag for "Michel Foucault". So the page still exists but it will not show up on the objects list anymore.
22:23, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Clarified abstract for my second report
22:33, 12 June 2006 (PDT)
Alex Barkett 15:00, 6 June 2006 (PDT)
