Been reading quite a bit of #readerresponsetheory / RAA literature recently. One core idea is that reading is an active process: readers construct meaning (plot, characters, themes, etc) through an interaction between the text and their own personal "encyclopedia" of experiences, knowledge, emotions, associations, etc

Made me curious about other people's reading habits.

Do you take notes while #reading? Highlight? Keep a #readingjournal or commonplace book? Write down reactions, interpretations, questions? Or do you prefer to let the reading experience stay more fluid and intuitive?

#read #readingcommunity #readers #books #bookstodon #book #BookLovers #booksky #constructivism

TIL The Sound's Jeopardy album artwork is a remix of a 1926 Soviet-Georgian film poster, so if you had sensed 1920s avantgarde vibes in that cover, that was for a reason.

The film in question is Преступление княжны Ширванской (The Crime of Princess Shirvanskaya), dir. Ivane Perestiani, poster design by the Stenberg brothers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_of_Shirvanskaya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenberg_brothers

#TheSound #postpunk #constructivism #sovietavantgarde

Page 1 of The Ashtray,
where Errol Morris does a book length screed against Tomas Kuhn.
Fascinating that it got published. Looking forward to his provocation since we had to discuss this endlessly at Normal school.

Morris compares Kuhn’s theory to the Pet Rock!
#truth #constructivism #kuhn #scientificmethod #paradigm