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)