Library of Babel and Interstellar: consider how Interstellar translated the Library of Babel into
film. Focus on scenes relevant to this translation, for e.g. Cooper inside the tesseract (black hole)
in the second half of the film. For your keywords, consider memory (Stiegler) and iterability
(Derrida, or Culler). A useful point to consider is the way second-order observation operates in the
A main goal of the assignment is to acquire the skill of defining your own topic, question, and
thesis for the paper. A good way to do this is to approach the assignment as a multi-step process,
beginning with defining a topic. It may take you a while to settle on a topic of interest; this is
fine. Keep thinking and writing down your ideas until the topic becomes well-defined. The
second step is defining the question or problem with which you will engage in the paper. The
beginning with defining a topic. It may take you a while to settle on a topic of interest; this is
fine. Keep thinking and writing down your ideas until the topic becomes well-defined. The
second step is defining the question or problem with which you will engage in the paper. The
the third step is to generate a thesis as an answer or argument that advances your solution for the
question/problem that you posed in relation to your paper topic.
If you approach the process of generating a paper topic and question in the above-suggested
manner, you will both write an essay about something which you find interesting, and around
which you have defined a problem, which you would like to communicate to other people your
readers. Your thesis shows that your proposed answer to the problem you have defined for the
reader is convincing, robust, and interesting. And the rest of the paper the body paragraphs
unpack for the reader your main thesis and elaborate on it, supporting it with evidence, and
exploring it in detail through close reading of your chosen text and/or image.
In following the above steps, your goal is ultimately to present your reader with a convincing and
interesting (i.e. not readily obvious) series of points and observations about your chosen text.
question/problem that you posed in relation to your paper topic.
If you approach the process of generating a paper topic and question in the above-suggested
manner, you will both write an essay about something which you find interesting, and around
which you have defined a problem, which you would like to communicate to other people your
readers. Your thesis shows that your proposed answer to the problem you have defined for the
reader is convincing, robust, and interesting. And the rest of the paper the body paragraphs
unpack for the reader your main thesis and elaborate on it, supporting it with evidence, and
exploring it in detail through close reading of your chosen text and/or image.
In following the above steps, your goal is ultimately to present your reader with a convincing and
interesting (i.e. not readily obvious) series of points and observations about your chosen text.
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