1. Explain what the ingredients are? Can you figure out what the ingredients go into making? Do not just look at one page. Look over the entire book before answering and cite examples from the text when you make your claim. The ingredients are chem
2. Schmitt has left out the caption or item that corresponds to the ingredients list: in other words, we know what the ingredients are, but we don't know what the product is. He's given ingredients to things but not told us what thing the ingredients go into making.
Why would he do that?
Come up with AT LEAST THREE REASONS HE MIGHT HAVE DONE THAT and lay them out A, B, C. EXPLAIN THESE REASONS IN DETAIL.
3. In a normal product, ingredients are listed in order. Explain what the order is. You may have to look this up.
4. The ingredients are laid out on the page in a particular way. Explain how the layout affects our interpretation of the work. Detail what exactly he has done. Talk about left and right justification, placement on the page, everything. Do not leave anything out. You will receive more points, the more things you note.
5. Say something about how we consume products today and relate this to Schmitt's Ingredients.
6. Say something about the nature of this work. It's presented on a website as creative work, possibly literature. How is this work different from traditional works of literature like novels or books of poetry? Remember that this is a born digital work. It was not printed as a book and it was written on a computer, largely via copy and pasting. Does this tell you anything about the nature of literature in a digital era? What? How is the text connected to the author Joachim Schmitt? Something is clearly different about this work of literature–what is it? Nail it down. List as many things that make this different from traditional works of literature as possible.
7. Ask yourself: is the work creative? If not, why not? Has the idea of creativity been shifted? And wherein exactly, does the creativity lie?
What might make this work interesting? What possible things could it make you think about vis a vis your own life and the products you consume?
