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Node Magazine
''Node Magazine'' is a literature, literary project in the guise of a fictional magazine created to annotate the novel ''Spook Country'' by William Gibson. The project is essentially a hypertext version of the novel. It takes its name from ''Node'', a non-existent magazine in ''Spook Country'' owned by Hubertus Bigend, which employs the novel's protagonist to pursue the source of locative art. The project drew attention from the novelist, and has been featured in ''The Guardian'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Salon.com, Salon'', ''The Seattle Times'' and the ''Santa Cruz Sentinel''. The academic literary critic John Sutherland (author), John Sutherland has claimed that the project threatened "to completely overhaul the way literary criticism is conducted". Origin The project was initiated when the recipient of an Advance copy, advanced reading copy of the novel mobilised "an army of volunteers" to track the references and assemble the cloud of metadata, data surrounding the novel â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
