TRAVELS IN INTERMEDIA-LITY

This book is so dense and purely theoretical and philosophical so I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to gain from this book as I'm not really in the mood for it but the library remains closed so what's a girl to do but work with what you've got. I think for this book I'll mostly be quoting as I don't really have much to add to what's being said.

The Moebius Strip

Interdisciplinarity begins effectively when the solidarity 

of the old disciplines breaks down, via the jolts of fashion.

-Roland Barthes (1977) Image - Music - Text

Intermediality can very literally be described as 

between the between.

Sense belongs to no height or depth, but rather to a 

surface effect, being inseparable from the surface which 

is its proper dimension. It is not that sense lacks depth

 or height, but rather that height and depth lack surface.

-Gilez Deleuze The Logic of Sense (the philosophy of surface)

This paragraph is so fucking dense but I think really important. I like the concept of only being able to refer to media by using other media and therefore it is one intermedia that comes first with specified media emerging from that and then second intermediality comes from the interconnections, returning in a loop that was directed then put back together, the same, but not the same. I think this is where the reference to the Moebius strip is clarified in my mind.

I tried to find and rewrite a concise definition of epistemology because I wasn't entirely sure I understood the concept: Epistemology is the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge and accordingly the field is sometimes referred to as the theory of knowledge. Along with metaphysics, logic, and ethics, it is one of the four main branches of philosophy.

It's taken me an hour to get through the first two pages of the introduction. There are another 267 pages to go. RIP

It goes on to point out that everything is essentially a media study. History is media based, religion is media based, music is media based etc. The study of a person can almost, if not, entirely can be revealed entirely by their exposure and regurgitation of media. I keep thinking of Picasso's quote 'bad artists copy, great artists steal'. It essentially has the same energy - steal from as many as you can so you're more likely to create an original combination of sources and therefore output.

page 3 is a good enough place for me to give up today. not even mad bro.