Subject: February Pick Gregory Ulmer
From: Dr.Wolfgang Schirmacher (wolfphilo@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 18:24:15 CST
It seems some of you have still trouble getting the assigned books in time.
My advice: If you ordered with amazon or bn, don't hesitate to e-mail their
customer service department and complain - it really helps.
Anyway, dear contributors, thank you for sharing your thoughts on SANDY
STONE, and I enjoyed especially your personal style. As a rule, it is
sufficient to enter your comment(s) until the end of the month following the
assigned readings. So, dear quiet students, please speak up on Stone before
March. I'll ask Sandy if she'd like to comment on your comments at this
time.
My pick for the month of February is Gregory Ulmer: Heuretics - The Logic of
Invention. Johns Hopkins University Press 1994.
A little later I'll also suggest (again) a few texts from CONTINENTAL
PHILOSOPHY which may be helpful for your understanding of Ulmer.
Here a sneak preview of Ulmer's personal EGS web site (up in a few weeks) as
an incentive for your study:
Gregory Ulmer
photo: http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer//signature.html
"Subjects formed in an electronic apparatus will not be constructed in terms
of self.
The emerAgency is a virtual organization dedicated to using the Internet for
a new kind of "consulting." Consulting is one of the principal ways
specialized knowledge is delivered to public policy issues. The present
state of cognitive jurisdiction restricts the assignment of expertise to
problems, reflecting a prejudice favoring empirical, positivist sciences and
social sciences as being the only ones relevant and practical to community
problem solving. The emerAgency is a deconstruction of this mode of
consultancy.
The "new consultancy" is not a direct critique of positivist expertise, but
is an experimental application of arts and letters methods and practices to
policy formation. In any case, choragraphy is not in opposition to
empirical science, but is supplemental to it. Choragraphy is a "practical"
way to deal with intractable public problems that resist scientific
solutions. "Choragraphy" was first proposed as a
hyper-rhetoric-logic-poetics native to electracy (digital fluency) in
HEURETICS: THE LOGIC OF INVENTION.
I emphasize Derrida specifically in Heuretics, but Lacan is very important
there also, and I teach Deleuze all the time."
1999-2000 ACADEMIC YEAR
SUMMER RESIDENCY August 6 -27, 2000
www.egs.edu
Gregory Ulmer is a professor of electronic languages and cybermedia at the
European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an
Intensive Summer Seminar:
LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE AND CYBERSPACE (3 credits) Studies language as an
activity of symbol-making and considers the recent shift from traditional
literacy to electronic languages. A new consultancy utilizing heuretical
practices is explored.
Gregory Ulmer, Ph.D. Professor, English Department, University of Florida.
Authority on electracy and cyberlanguage who initiated hypertextual
practices such as "fetishturgy," "choragraphy" and "mystoriography." Author
of Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph
Beuys; Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video; Heuretics: The Logic of
Invention. Ulmer's University of Florida Web Page
http://www.cas.usf.edu/journal/ulmer/ulmer.html
http://www.altx.com/ebr/ebr2/2ulmer.htm
European Graduate School - M.A. / Ph.D. Programs in Media and
Communication
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