Comments on: Introduction: Electracy http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:16:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: The Internet, the Body, and Unconscious Dimensions of Thought « The Frailest Thing http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-262 The Internet, the Body, and Unconscious Dimensions of Thought « The Frailest Thing Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:16:54 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-262 [...] sanguine about the possibility of inventing new forms of thought adequate to our circumstances.  Electracy, according to Ulmer, will be to the digital age what literacy has been to the age of print: an [...] [...] sanguine about the possibility of inventing new forms of thought adequate to our circumstances.  Electracy, according to Ulmer, will be to the digital age what literacy has been to the age of print: an [...]

]]> By: The Learning Screen » Blog Archive » ScreenLearning http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-208 The Learning Screen » Blog Archive » ScreenLearning Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:39:03 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-208 [...] comment Share    M 29-Nov    »”The Learning Screen” (Ulmer [...] [...] comment Share    M 29-Nov    »”The Learning Screen” (Ulmer [...]

]]> By: Reflections on “Growing Up Digital” « The Frailest Thing http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-206 Reflections on “Growing Up Digital” « The Frailest Thing Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:05:34 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-206 [...] skills and sensibilities that we might loosely label digital literacy (or, following Gregory Ulmer, electracy) then the tools and the goals will be in [...] [...] skills and sensibilities that we might loosely label digital literacy (or, following Gregory Ulmer, electracy) then the tools and the goals will be in [...]

]]> By: The Learning Screen » Blog Archive » Emblematic Gestures http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-204 The Learning Screen » Blog Archive » Emblematic Gestures Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:58:19 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-204 [...] Suggested Reading: Ulmer (2009) “The Learning Screen” (required for M 29-Nov) [...] [...] Suggested Reading: Ulmer (2009) “The Learning Screen” (required for M 29-Nov) [...]

]]> By: helenthorington http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-203 helenthorington Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:07:15 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-203 The original chapters for this book were made available to the public in 2009. For information about the book, see: http://networkedbook.org/about/ The original chapters for this book were made available to the public in 2009. For information about the book, see:
http://networkedbook.org/about/

]]> By: Fabio De Vivo http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Fabio De Vivo Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:05:44 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-202 Hi, I'd like to know the date of this article for references. Thank you very much. Fabio Hi,

I’d like to know the date of this article for references.

Thank you very much.

Fabio

]]> By: Ulmer’s Electracy « English 501: Teaching Writing http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Ulmer’s Electracy « English 501: Teaching Writing Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:15:43 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-200 [...] here. Pretty interesting to read as a complement to [...] [...] here. Pretty interesting to read as a complement to [...]

]]> By: QofW #4 Electrate « Research For Experience Design http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-175 QofW #4 Electrate « Research For Experience Design Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:49:49 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-175 [...] http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/ [...] [...] http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/ [...]

]]> By: Gregory Ulmer http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Gregory Ulmer Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:19:18 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-174 Your follow-up is appreciated, and your concerns are legitimate. The first caveat in these speculations is that there are no guarantees, but neither is there determinism. No form, practice, or technology is inherently good or evil. My optimism about electracy is based on the fact that any apparatus is invented, with some aspects of what is needed having direct relationship to arts and letters disciplines. Here are a few thoughts. 1) There is a correlation relating the features of digital technologies with the mechanisms of logics associated with creative thinking. 2) Imaging forms make accessible to ontology (to metaphysics generally) that dimension of thinking-willing-judging previously inaccessible if not unthinkable, identified as "virtue" by the Ancients and the Unconscious by the moderns. 3) The electrate apparatus does not eliminate or suppress the accomplishments we both admire associated with the existing apparati, but supplements them with a new dimension, noted in my essay: well-being, grounded in the human experience of dis/satisfaction. Electracy as a metaphysics (skill-set of digital imaging) enables users (via avatar) to experience (to undergo) the collective, abstract powers of culture and nature, providing in principle an intelligence of sustainability. Keep in mind that literacy began modestly, as illustrated by the story of Diogenes bursting into the Academy, disrupting an experiment with "definition." "Man" had just been defined as "featherless biped." Diogenes held up a plucked chicken and declared: "behold your 'Man'!" The Academicians consulted and amended the definition, adding "with flat nails." From such humble beginnings arose todays super-collider. I continue to develop my own inquiries into this shift in a couple of blogs: heuretics.wordpress.com, and routine.electracy.com. Your follow-up is appreciated, and your concerns are legitimate. The first caveat in these speculations is that there are no guarantees, but neither is there determinism. No form, practice, or technology is inherently good or evil. My optimism about electracy is based on the fact that any apparatus is invented, with some aspects of what is needed having direct relationship to arts and letters disciplines. Here are a few thoughts. 1) There is a correlation relating the features of digital technologies with the mechanisms of logics associated with creative thinking. 2) Imaging forms make accessible to ontology (to metaphysics generally) that dimension of thinking-willing-judging previously inaccessible if not unthinkable, identified as “virtue” by the Ancients and the Unconscious by the moderns. 3) The electrate apparatus does not eliminate or suppress the accomplishments we both admire associated with the existing apparati, but supplements them with a new dimension, noted in my essay: well-being, grounded in the human experience of dis/satisfaction. Electracy as a metaphysics (skill-set of digital imaging) enables users (via avatar) to experience (to undergo) the collective, abstract powers of culture and nature, providing in principle an intelligence of sustainability. Keep in mind that literacy began modestly, as illustrated by the story of Diogenes bursting into the Academy, disrupting an experiment with “definition.” “Man” had just been defined as “featherless biped.” Diogenes held up a plucked chicken and declared: “behold your ‘Man’!” The Academicians consulted and amended the definition, adding “with flat nails.” From such humble beginnings arose todays super-collider. I continue to develop my own inquiries into this shift in a couple of blogs: heuretics.wordpress.com, and routine.electracy.com.

]]> By: Rio Contrada http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/the-learning-screen-introduction-electracy/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Rio Contrada Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:35:25 +0000 http://ulmer.networkedbook.org/?p=7#comment-173 Dear Mr. Ulmer, First of all, I apologize for my previous snarky post. I am writing a paper comparing the transition from orality to literacy to the transition from literacy to electracy, and I got emotionally frustrated. I'm finding it difficult to compare the two transitions because the transition to electracy is still in progress. When I looked at your table I was aggravated by how bleak the electracy column seemed. The apparati in the literacy column look like they have so much more depth than the apparati you associate with electracy. However, from reading your book Internet Invention in more depth, and from speaking with my professor, I feel reassured that you are not arguing that electracy is making our minds shallow and our lives meaningless. The question, then, that I would like to ask you is, how can we manipulate the changes in our apparati (for example the change from a state of mind of knowledge to one of fantasy) to expand our consciousness rather than contract it. I understand that this is essentially the question that you wrote an entire book trying to answer, and I hope that I'm not being unrealistic by asking for a straight-forward answer - I'm just having difficulty wrapping my mind around how the apparati in the electracy column can possibly be positive for our existence as human beings. Dear Mr. Ulmer,

First of all, I apologize for my previous snarky post. I am writing a paper comparing the transition from orality to literacy to the transition from literacy to electracy, and I got emotionally frustrated. I’m finding it difficult to compare the two transitions because the transition to electracy is still in progress. When I looked at your table I was aggravated by how bleak the electracy column seemed. The apparati in the literacy column look like they have so much more depth than the apparati you associate with electracy. However, from reading your book Internet Invention in more depth, and from speaking with my professor, I feel reassured that you are not arguing that electracy is making our minds shallow and our lives meaningless. The question, then, that I would like to ask you is, how can we manipulate the changes in our apparati (for example the change from a state of mind of knowledge to one of fantasy) to expand our consciousness rather than contract it. I understand that this is essentially the question that you wrote an entire book trying to answer, and I hope that I’m not being unrealistic by asking for a straight-forward answer – I’m just having difficulty wrapping my mind around how the apparati in the electracy column can possibly be positive for our existence as human beings.

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