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Think Electrate: Inventing Electrate Thinking Practices
Richard Smyth, C.M.Full DigressorUnderAcademy College 12 May 2013
Week 3: Orientation
Week 2 Review
--read Jeff Rice essay--Forum discussions about electrate identity--Google Hangout discussion– writing with images– comics as image-text composition– electrate tools for image writing– final project possibilities
Week 3 Preview
--Continue Week 1 & 2 discussions--read Greg Ulmer's “Florida Measure (Chora)”--Week 3 discussion questions in forum--start discussion of key questions--thinkelectrate.wikispaces.com--Google Hangout: time to be determined
Prosthetic Augmentation
“What literacy is to the analytical mind,
electracy is to the affective body: a prosthesis that enhances and augments a natural or organic human potential...”
(Ulmer “Electracy”).
Image Writing: Electrate Prosthesis
“Alphabetic writing is an artificial memory that supports long complex chains of reasoning impossible to sustain within the organic mind. Digital imaging similarly supports extensive complexes of mood atmospheres beyond organic capacity”
(Ulmer “Electracy”).
Emblem Writing as Mnemonic
--emblem writing as Renaissance model of
image-text combination--consider Ulmer's “Florida Measure (Chora)”
as a form of image-text writing (with the balance falling heavily on textual explanations of each image)
--after reading the essay, see what you remember about its contents based on the images that you recall
Electrate Tools for Emblem Writing
Consider the potential of the following as tools
for image-writing:
--Vine (vine.co)--Vinepeek (vinepeek.com)--Instagram (instagram.com)--Comic Life (comiclife.com)--Thinglink (thinglink.com)--others?
References
“Electracy.” Wikipedia. Viewed 12 May 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electracy>.
Ulmer, Gregory. “Florida Measure (Chora).” Journal of Florida Studies. Vol 1.1 (Fall 2011). Viewed 12 May 2013. Website. <http://www.journaloffloridastudies.org/floridameasure.html>.
