KONSULT

Gregory L. Ulmer

Description

A motto guiding Gregory L. Ulmer's career is from the poet Basho: not to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought. The responsibility of humanities disciplines today is to do for the digital apparatus (social machine) what the classical Greeks did for alphabetic writing. Ulmer frames online learning as a mode of invention (heuretics), beginning with the invention of konsult itself. Konsult: Theopraxesis describes the invention of a genre of learning that is to digital media what Plato's dialogue was to alphabetic writing.
The Greeks invented the practices of writing (rhetoric and logic) native to the new institution of school (the Academy), fostering a new behavior of selfhood (Socrates). Ulmer adopts this historical precedent as a relay, an inventory for what must be invented again today: a genre of learning, an educational institution, identity behavior. The insight of electracy is that each apparatus augments and institutionalizes one of the primary faculties of human intelligence: theoria in literacy; praxis in orality; poiesis in electracy.
Needed today are not practices of writing, but "theopraxesis" of media. The analytical information economy of literacy required separation and isolation (siloing) of institutionalized intelligence. The multimodality of electracy enables syncretism of faculties into holistic performance: thinking-doing-making; knowledge-purpose-affect. The interface metaphor of Plato's dialogue was an oral conversation during which the illiterate interlocutor is introduced to dialectical reason as Idea. The interface metaphor of konsult is scientific consulting during which anelectrate students encounter plasmatic desire as simulacrum. This new learning is organized around an updating of Justice native to electracy.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 02 février 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170695
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

ULMER K O N S U L T

ARLOR PRESS

KONSULT

Electracy and Transmedia Studies Serîes Edîtors: Jan Rune Homevîk and Cyntîa Haynes

Te Eeçtraçy and Transmedîa Studîes Serîes puîses researç tat examînes te mîxed reaîtîes tat emerge troug eeçtraçy, pay, retorîça knowedge, game desîgn, çommunîty, çode, and transmedîa artîaçts. Tîs ook serîes aîms to augment tradîtîona artîstîç and îterate orms wît examînatîons o eeçtrate and îterate pay în te age o transmedîa. Wrîtîng aout pay soud, în oter words, e grounded în payîng wît wrîtîng. Te dîstînçtîon etween pay and reeçtîon, as Stuart Moutrop argues, îs a ase dîçotomy. Cutura transmedîa artîaçts tat are înteraçtîve, tat move, tat are sîtuated în rea tîme, ça or înventîve/eeçtrate means o çreatîng new sçoary traçtîon în transdîsçîpînary îeds. Te serîes puîses researç tat produçes suç traç- tîon troug înnovatîve proçesses tat move researç orward açross îts own îmîtîng suraçes (suraçes tat çreate statîç rîçtîon). Te serîes exempîîes extreme poînts o çontaçt were înçreased eeçtrate traçtîon mîgt oççur. Te serîes aso aîms to roaden ow sçoary treatments o eeçtraçy and trans- medîa çan înçude ot açademîç and genera audîençes în an eort to çreate poînts o çontaçt etween a wîde range o readers. Te Eeçtraçy and Trans- medîa Serîes oows wat Gregory Umer ças an îmage ogîç ased upon a wîde sçope—“an aestetîç emodîment o one’s attunement wît te word.”

Books in the Series

KONSULT: Theopraxesîsy Gregory L. Umer (2019) Exquîsîte Corpse: Art-Based Wrîtîng Practîces în the Academy,edîted y Kate Hanzaîk and Nataîe Vîrgîntîno (2019) Tracîng Invîsîble Lînes: An Experîment în Mystorîographyy Davîd Presçott- Steed (2019) The Internet as a Gamey Jî Anne Morrîs (2018) Identîty and Collaboratîon înWord o Warçrat y Pîîp Mîçae Aexander (2018) Future Texts: Subversîve Perormance and Femînîst Bodîes, edîted y Vîçkî Caaan and Vîrgînîa Kun (2016) Play/Wrîte: Dîgîtal Rhetorîc, Wrîtîng, Games, edîted y Dougas Eyman and Andréa D. Davîs (2016)

Sites

Gregory Umer’sKonsult Experîment: ttp://konsutexperîment.çom/

KONSULT

heopraxesis

Gregory L. Ulmer

Paror Press Anderson, South Carolîna www.parlorpress.com

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Eeçtraçy and Transmedîa Studîes Serîes Edîtors: Jan Rune Homevîk and Cyntîa Haynes

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Contents

Preaçe îx 1 Justîçe 3 Interlude: Murpy’s We-Beîng (1) 37 2 Aegory 46 Interlude: Murpy’s We-Beîng (2) 81 3 Enjoyment 87 Interlude: Murpy’s We-Beîng (3) 117 4 Traçe 126 Interlude: Murphy’s Well-Beîng(4) 163 5 Coragrapy 170 Interlude: Murphy’s Well-Beîng(5) 207 6 Rytm 216 Interlude: Murphy’s Well-Beîng(6) 247

Works Cîted 257

Index 265

Aout te Autor 279

or Hayden, Claîre, Raya, and Anjalî

We can thus hope to reach a plane where logîcal propertîes, as attrîbutes o thîngs, wîll be manîested as dîrectly as lavors or perumes. — Caude Lévî-Strauss

Fîgure 1. “Instaatîon.”Murphy’s Well-Beîng, Forîda Researç Enseme, în “Regîon4: Transormatîon troug Imagînatîon,” Gaînesvîe, Forîda, Feru- ary 2012. Poto y Jaçk Stenner.

Preface

Electracy n reçent years çoaoratîons wît my çoeagues ave taken te orm o I goa onîne eduça o an eort to revîsît euretîçs as pedagogy, to çarîy and reçonîg- ure ît to serve as te asîs or earnîng în te emergîng çondîtîons tîon, înçudîng MOOCs, uîquîtous çomputîng, mîxed reaîty, and reated înîtîatîves. Tese çapters orîgînay were ad- dressed ess ormay to my çoeagues and students (te “we” o tîs text), as teorîzîng ow to teaç te înventîon o eeçtraçy onîne. Te proposa îs tat earnîng înçudes te çonstruçtîon o a genre çaedkon- sult(pronounçed KON-sut) tat în turn medîates a earnîng, reatîve to te çompete înteraçtîve envîronment o systems and înstîtutîons, not ony or degrees ut aso or îe-ong eduçatîon and çîtîzensîp. Wat îs te roe and uture o îterate sçoo (a redundançy) în eeç- traçy? Peraps ît îs not surprîsîng tat not everyone tînks eduçatîon needs to çange, or not în te way tat we envîsîon. We know în ad- vançe and în prînçîpe ow te word works — tat çange appens în a çertaîn way (te propensîty o tîngs). Tere seems to e an îsotopy o eîng açross a eves o exîstençe, rom atoms to gaaxîes, înçudîng te uman dîmensîon ot îoogîça and çutura, întuîted în te desîgn o mandaas. Any one eve în tîs çosmoogy may unçtîon as amîse en abyme(mînîaturîzatîon) îgurîng te organîzatîon o te woe (î one as te çrat o aegory în mînd). Here or exampe îs an aççount o çange în tîs oîstîç perspeçtîve, wît reerençe to te atomîç eve, tat resonates wît çutura îstory.

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