Post class 9/12

During the second week of class the class went over readings by Barthes and Macherey and what I thought was really interesting was the concept of tmesis. In class we defined it as the “notion of interjecting ideas, words, texts, etc.” and “the figure of speech in which a word is separating into two parts and filled with letters.” We talked about how we, as critical media majors have to be able to fill in the “gaps” when reading a given text. We read what an author writes but try to interpret what he/she means by thinking outside of what is given to us. We do this by the idea of “perversion” which we described as turning the text inside out.

I also got reintroduced with what writerly and readerly texts are. We described readerly texts as closed like a grocery list or any kind of directions that are written down. We discussed how writerly texts are open which consists of movies or books. The difference between open and closed texts is that closed texts are not up for interpretation whereas open texts can be up for discussion. There’s more “in between the lines” than what is really just written down. I think tmesis is the best definition of what a CMC major does as a reader.

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