{"id":848,"date":"2008-11-24T15:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=848"},"modified":"2008-11-24T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T19:13:40","slug":"implementation-as-guerilla-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/11\/24\/implementation-as-guerilla-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Implementation&#8221; as Guerilla Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Krisztian&#8217;s post on &#8220;Implementation&#8221; as a literary reflection of counter-cultural movements, I&#8217;d have to agree that the piece is more about <em>how<\/em>\u00a0a counter culture works rather than about the social themes it claims to react against. In my opinion, &#8220;Implementation&#8221; is part of a new genre of urban literature that can include the reactionist billboards we looked at in class, as well as city-wide graffiti. Though the latter examples aren&#8217;t cohesive narratives, they still exist in order to speak on behalf of an organized minority&#8217;s ideologies. In a way, they are like miniature visual speeches that inspire a reaction that amplifies the absurdity of social norms and conventions. When I was thinking of incorporating some of the characteristics of &#8220;Implementation&#8221; into my Textual Media Experiment, I thought about trying to reinforce this idea of &#8220;guerilla&#8221; literature by creating a broken or cohesive narrative to be dispersed in an urban environment much like &#8220;Implementation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Krisztian&#8217;s post on &#8220;Implementation&#8221; as a literary reflection of counter-cultural movements, I&#8217;d have to agree that the piece is more about how\u00a0a counter culture works rather than about the social themes it claims to react against. In my opinion, &#8220;Implementation&#8221; is part of a new genre of urban literature that can include the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/11\/24\/implementation-as-guerilla-literature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Implementation&#8221; as Guerilla Literature<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}