Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

 

F a l l B r e a k (21−29 Nov.)

 

» Optional Exercise (bonus points)

Par­a­digm Rhetoric — Another Worldview

• 500 words (min/max); 5 points 
• Instruc­tions below

 

Duende is the mood of dwelling in infor­ma­tion, and poetry is its logic.
[…] con­cept avatar is a thought of feel­ing as a dimen­sion of civ­i­liza­tion” (107)
— Gre­gory Ulmer, Avatar Emer­gency (2012)

 

» Optional Blog Entry (participation credit)

* reminder optional prompt from 20-Nov
 
• 200 words (min/max); post by 29-Nov 
• Prompt reflect upon Blog 5 (“per­sonal data­base” sam­pling activ­ity): think­ing about dig­i­tal iden­tity and medi­ated expe­ri­ence, while look­ing ahead to project 3 (Screen­Self­Por­trait), dis­cuss any new ideas or prospects about com­pos­ing in the affective-aesthetic par­a­digm — work­ing “in” elec­tracy as a dis­tinct appa­ra­tus (sep­a­rate from Orality-Belief and Literacy-Argument paradigms).
   
• Use any help­ful ideas from the optional read­ing, “The Learn­ing Screen” (Net­worked 2009)
  — along with any videos from “The Ulmer Tapes”
• Con­sult, ref­er­ence, dis­cuss Arroyo’s video Grow­ing Up with Elec­tracy” (2015)
   
  — and/or per­haps Ulmer’s talk “Elec­tracy: Writ­ing to Avatar” (2009)

 

Ulmer — “ELECTRACY: Writ­ing to Avatar” from DWRL on Vimeo

(Ulmer talk begins @ 5:30)

 
 

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