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Previous: Arts Research: Creating the KaChing Giorgio Agamben (2007), “Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience,” New York: Verso. Roland Barthes (1980), “New Critical Essays,” Trans. Richard Howard, New York: Hill and Wang. Steven Biel (1997 ), “Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster,” New York: W. W. Norton. [...]

Arts Research: Creating the KaChing

Previous: The EmerAgency As Graduate Seminar | Next: References The Florida Research Ensemble The FRE undertook a pilot consultation in Miami, Florida, in the 1990s to test the parable form of the poetic figure on behalf of a group subject (a prototype developed extensively by John Craig Freeman, including sites in Second Life). Here is [...]

The EmerAgency as Graduate Seminar

Previous: Memos for Undergraduate Education | Next: Arts Research: Creating the KaChing The Florida Research Ensemble (FRE) was formed at the University of Florida in the mid-1990s by a group of colleagues from a number of different colleges brought together by a common interest in electronic technologies and new media. The question guiding our work [...]

Memos for Undergraduate Education

Previous: Introduction: Electracy | Next: The EmerAgency as Graduate Seminar I teach an upper-division undergraduate course called Internet Literature in an English department. About two-thirds of the students are English majors, and the rest mostly Journalism majors with other miscellaneous areas represented (Art, Business, Psychology often included). We meet in a networked classroom, justified by [...]

Introduction: Electracy

To comment on SPECIFIC PARAGRAPHS, click on the speech bubble next to that paragraph. Next: Memos for Undergraduate Education There is an analogy for what we are doing when we collaboratively explore the possibilities of new media. We are to the Internet what students of Plato and Aristotle were to the Academy and Lyceum. When [...]