daniel dugas
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« Fame is not fastidious about the lips which spread it. So long as there are mouths to reiterate the one name, it does not matter who they are. »
Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

talk mainstream is a Twitter Transitivity* project by Daniel Dugas exploring how language works in the construction of knowledge. An Apple script downloads the Google Trends list information and a MAX patch, is set up to manufacture the tweets. Ironic comments rise out of the list of keywords people are searching as compiled by Google, and other lists of verbs, nouns, prepositions, adverbs and locales

november 2009
   
  *Transitivity is a way of describing the relationship between participants and processes in the construction of clauses – basically, ‘who (or what) does what to whom (or what)’.

John Hartley (2002) Communication, Cultural and Media Studies – The Key Concepts, London, Routledge