for the UnderAcademy College course Think Electrate: Inventing Electrate Thinking Practices

1. Think Electrate:
Inventing Electrate Thinking Practices
Richard Smyth, C.M.
Full Digressor
UnderAcademy College
12 May 2013
Week 3: Orientation

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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”).

5. 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”).

6. 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

7. 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?

8. 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>.

9. Contact
Richard Smyth, Ph.D.
rsmyth1964@gmail.com
sites.google.com/site/thinkelectrate

10. Contact
Richard Smyth, Ph.D.
rsmyth1964@gmail.com
sites.google.com/site/thinkelectrate