{"id":1711,"date":"2008-09-25T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:28:40","slug":"what-are-words-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/what-are-words-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"What are words worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve always thought I was reasonably good at words. Not Shakespeare, not\u00a0Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings<\/a>\u00a0– somewhere in between. Never a main flavour in the great cooking pot of literature, but perhaps a small spice near the edge that adds minutely to the overall taste.<\/p>\n

But no more. How can I hold a candle to – how can I even live on the same continent as – the composer of this masterpiece?<\/p>\n

“A key problem in the academic field of dance is how to capture and document the incremental development of ideas and their material manifestation in the creative process within practice-led research. In improvisational, embodied investigation, the mode of engagement is generative, pre-verbal, intuitive, experiential and fluid. This militates against types of cognitive engagement necessary for analysis, critique and reflection. The problem is most acute in the context of dance: however it is pertinent to all arts-based disciplines. This project is predicated on dialogic processes between dance and e-Science and the fluidity of concepts as they transverse the two domains, making use of recent advances in the visualisation and representation of spatio-temporal structures and discourse.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want to know more – how it ends, whether the boy gets the girl – it’s the first paragraph of a research description\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will now retire to a small monastery and consider an alternative career. I’ve always fancied myself as a bit of a pop star if I ever learned the guitar properly. Maybe a bit like Roger Waters but without the ego or the whining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve always thought I was reasonably good at words. Not Shakespeare, not\u00a0Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings\u00a0– somewhere in between. Never a main flavour in the great cooking pot of literature, but perhaps a small spice near the edge that adds minutely … Continue reading →<\/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":[22],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-2","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}