Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy
Project 3: Screen Self Portrait
» 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)
» Optional Exercise (bonus points)
Paradigm Rhetoric — Another Worldview
- 5 points; 500 words (min/max) + media (1 instance minimum)
- Post on your blog or in D2L (by 29-Nov)
» Prompt:
- Discuss a “worldview” that we have not covered this term
- Use our key topics to discuss this worldview in terms of “paradigm rhetoric:”
what counts as Knowledge, and what form(s) does it take?
how is Knowledge communicated? (formally & informally? individually & collectively?)
what is a visible/recognizable or prominent Institution?
what is excluded, omitted, left out? (deliberately or incidentally)
how is Experience viewed and regarded? (what “counts as” Experience? or what how is Experienced understood, represented, expressed…?) how is Identity experienced and performed?
→ important: describing thoughtfully in these terms should generate insights by practicing our advanced understanding and perspective — avoiding criticism, commentary, comparison, judgment, opinion, “personal feelings about,” etc.
(Any responses of this latter sort will not earn credit, as this is not an editorial/commentary exercise; rather, demonstrate your practiced ability to recognize and articulate conventions of a worldview and how it works as a paradigm rhetorically and philosophically.)
- As brief conclusion, 1. use your insights to name this paradigm in brief title
(hint: use noun form, by adding “-ism,” “-ization,” “-ity”)
Include one media instance (any form, found/created) that conveys the “mood of thought” of this title.2. Briefly note (2 sentences) your insights resulting from this exercise, using the perspective of “paradigm rhetoric” (our method of study) &mdash any new ideas, realizations, reconsideration, etc.
While not required, you might position (not necessarily comparison/contrast) in relation to paradigms — Belief, Information/Argument, Experience — that we’ve studied; or, to your prior knowledge (other courses, texts, media, etc.)
Alternatively, you might also discuss considering Electracy: as it is being invented, perhaps syncretic of Orality & Literacy, what in/of the paradigm you’ve discussed could be relevant or valuable to include in this new apparatus? (especially concerning identity experience and expression, recalling our considerations of affect and aesthetics…)
- — possible selections include (among others):
professional / “productivity”; business / global economics (post-industrial multinational corporate capitalism); other political ideologies
spirituality (not belief discussed in unit 1, your video; nor “religion” generally)
nature, ecology, sexuality, biology, animal studies (not discipline/information focus of your project 2)
artisanal culture; creativity, performance, role-playing / game
posthumanism / “transhumanism,” hybridity, “technological singularity”
Nootropics, altered states, Panpsychism
non-Western or “alternative” philosophy, movements, practices, beliefs (e.g. astrology, I Ching/divination, Shamanism, mythology, occult)