This blog is for members of the Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Technologies graduate seminar in "Serious Design" at Clemson University, Fall 2007 and beyond.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Ulmer and electracy
Greg Ulmer suggests that internet invention and electracy are forms of "applied poetry." I like how he links the power and potential of electracy with beauty [theory = poetry], community, and pedagogy.
Yeah, in Ulmer there's a general tendency away from compartmentalization. He talks about his own life during his academica, includes pedagogy in theory, and spreads neologisms like butter.
Mmm, butter. This idea of electracy being indicative of community is intriguing. It reflects the notion of the Internet being an all-reaching community where free speech rules. I wonder what Ulmer would say about the 'Net being a purely communist arena.
Butter. Yes. Or maybe Smart Balance? I agree that electracy as an energy for community is very intriguing. A way of bringing people together across many potential divides. I also like the way Ulmer roots his mystory in Montana ... not only his relationship with his father and other elders of the previous generation ... but by implication, Ulmer's relations with the land and the big sky Montana. The electracal sky of Montana. It seems to me that Ulmer's theories and neologisms parallel some of the things that Ken Burns shows in his video series on Lewis and Clark ... who spent a good part of their 1804-06 expedition in or near the current Montana, taking all sort of notes that thrilled Thomas Jefferson and generations of nature writers ever since. Burns' videos start out, sort of, as linear mystories then diverge in all kinds of unexpected ways and directions, and the visual and sonic literacies are electracal.
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Yeah, in Ulmer there's a general tendency away from compartmentalization. He talks about his own life during his academica, includes pedagogy in theory, and spreads neologisms like butter.
Mmm, butter. This idea of electracy being indicative of community is intriguing. It reflects the notion of the Internet being an all-reaching community where free speech rules. I wonder what Ulmer would say about the 'Net being a purely communist arena.
Butter. Yes. Or maybe Smart Balance? I agree that electracy as an energy for community is very intriguing. A way of bringing people together across many potential divides. I also like the way Ulmer roots his mystory in Montana ... not only his relationship with his father and other elders of the previous generation ... but by implication, Ulmer's relations with the land and the big sky Montana. The electracal sky of Montana. It seems to me that Ulmer's theories and neologisms parallel some of the things that Ken Burns shows in his video series on Lewis and Clark ... who spent a good part of their 1804-06 expedition in or near the current Montana, taking all sort of notes that thrilled Thomas Jefferson and generations of nature writers ever since. Burns' videos start out, sort of, as linear mystories then diverge in all kinds of unexpected ways and directions, and the visual and sonic literacies are electracal.
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