Reading 2 Week 3:

Database as Symbolic Form

I believe what this essay is trying to interpret is that technology is essentially a database with specific algorithms or rules that help relate a connection with knowledge and information. As far as the intricate details of the whole essay, I don't seem to follow. Maybe my state of mind is only a portion of what database symbolizes or perhaps that I'm only a portion of a database within this network of life.

Death of the Author

This essay realizes that words in language aren't just about who writes them but about who reads and and interprets those words. The author, I agree, is invisible now in written language of today. Most writing doesn't even mention anything about the author or his her background unless as a reader you search his name and read about the author specifically. Even then, what is written about the author could also be an interpretation formed by another reader or audience in relation to what they think the author is saying. In reality, the author is deemed to not exist but the death of him is up to imagination.