14/11/08

Apt’s links for November 10th through November 13th

• Adam O’Riordan: Why the poetry of hip-hop is tragic | Books | guardian.co.uk - “These patterns stemming from verbal expression exist across high art and low culture; antidiplosis, antithesis, stichomythia, anaphora, epistrophe, anthypophora and a whole bunch of other hard-to-remember terms can be found in the bombast and rhetoric of the album. I return to it as I would go and see Medea. or the Bacchae, for just as they argue against the notion of “progress” in human experience and cultural production so rap at its best challenges the divisions we lay down and baffles the cultural compass that prescribes what we should revere and what we should condemn.” The Guardian starts a new series by publishing an MA English Lit thesis.
• John Naughton: Poorly connected Republicans went down the YouTube | Media | The Observer - “Phil Noble, a celebrated political consultant, has called the Obama strategy ‘the first 21st-century textbook online campaign’”. Expect to see a lot more of this; analysis of the winning Presidential campaign’s web strategy and tactics

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