{"id":1091,"date":"2014-05-13T22:23:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/centrality\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:49:42","slug":"centrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/centrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>Aankit Patel<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Procedural poetry that invites the reader to take a more intuitive approach to &#039;meaning&#039;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aantiks.com\/centrality\/\">http:\/\/www.aantiks.com\/centrality\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1091 gallery-columns-0 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399694707_ScreenShot2014-05-10at12.04.24AM.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399694707_ScreenShot2014-05-10at12.04.24AM-300x266.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399694707_ScreenShot2014-05-10at12.04.24AM-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2014\/05\/1399694707_ScreenShot2014-05-10at12.04.24AM.png 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h3>Description<\/h3>\n<p>Meaning often lies in seemingly random events, in the chaos and messiness of life. Yet when we read, we try to get at the meaning by digging deeper, getting to the core or the center of the author&#039;s message.<\/p>\n<p>\nCentrality uses the Wordnet lexicographical corpus, the dadaist cut-up technique, and Jabberwocky-esque nonsense to write a poem modeling the meaning of a single user-inputted verb. Using the very common statistical measure of centrality, the normal distribution, the poems juxtapose difference usages or senses of the verb with each other and nonsense. The effect hopefully invites the reader to treat text and language more intuitively, allowing context instead of deterministic definitions guide their understanding.<\/p>\n<h3>Classes<\/h3>\n<p>Reading and Writing Electronic Text, Coding for Emotional Impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aankit Patel Procedural poetry that invites the reader to take a more intuitive approach to &#039;meaning&#039;. http:\/\/www.aantiks.com\/centrality\/ Description Meaning often lies in seemingly random events, in the chaos and messiness of life. Yet when we read, we try to get at the meaning by digging deeper, getting to the core or the center of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/centrality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Centrality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10270,147,11212,12541,462,5553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aankit-patel","category-adam-parrish","category-coding-for-emotional-impact","category-mimi-yue-yin","category-projects","category-reading-and-writing-electronic-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/shows\/spring2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}