Narrative
Widesite composition is a narrative process.
Mystory in the context of the EmerAgency brings the egent into an explicit relationship with the process of identify formation, both individual and collective.
Home (Page) Sick
Homepage has become an obsolete term. It is essentially the same as calling a car a horseless carriage.
Making a decision is a focused sequence with foru elements recalled by the acrony TOTE:
1) Test or reality check of my desires
2) Operate
3) Test (Repeated)
4) Exist
Students start out in the home and are raised there; they likely stay there as well if it were not for the driving force of society compelling them to a university.
Mystory is working to replace the purpose that allegory has served in the past. It is there to allow people of the modern world to find their place in the world and in history. This similarity between the two has caused many medieval comparison of allegory to mystory.
Allegory popcycle
Literal=School (elementary through secondary levels)
Allegory=Entertainment (commercialized information and story)
Moral=Family (biography of the individual)
Anagogy=Career (disciplinary knowledge)
The mystory of James Joyce was structured as followed
1) History (school, community)
2) Church
3) Family
4) Career
Micro Narratives: No more than 300 words, establishes the key details of a situation, locates and develops the key features of a scene.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2-16-2010
The transference of information from one medium to another often gives rise to another layer of understanding of that information, neither literal nor figurative. The relationship between otherwise insignificant details and the memories, associations, and emotions of the person viewing this information is what enriches the transfer. A picture can be described in words, but the person doing the describing may miss the one key detail that makes it all click, puts into perspective, for the person hearing the description. It's important to remember that all the information was there from the start; it was simply less visible in one medium than in another. It makes me wonder if, despite this new and rich knowledge coming out of the transfer, there was some other layer of information lost from the original. Putting a spoken tale to print gives the reader the ability to look back to refresh their memory on any part of the story previously told, and it allows for the visual quality of the words to be seen, but is that worth the tradeoff? Speech offers the sound of the language, and while words can be spoken again once they're recorded, those who have not heard the original story may emphasize or emote differently from the original.
Basho's haikus teach us to make use of productive ambiguity, the choice of words through which we may convey a secondary meaning. This is common practice in poetry, but it's only useful in the original language of the poem. Any translations, using a new language, will result in new and different ambiguities, completely apart from anything the author originally intended. This is an interesting parallel to the medium translation - the transference from print to film, spoken word to digital recordings, must be done with great care to ensure translation of intent and meaning as well as literal words. The use of this productive ambiguity can be a great asset or a terrible drawback. Essence is not affected by appearance, but appearance can convey mood, atmosphere, and feeling. There's also this idea of a revelation or epiphany as a device to share mood.
Much of this chapter is dedicated to the discussion of content versus intent - content is a result of and reveals intent. However, intent is widely interpolation from content, which reveals at least as much about the reader (the interpreter) as the writer (the creator, whose intent is being assumed). This raises an interesting question for the mystory: when you are both writer and reader, can you be trusted to find your own intent accurately, or are you reading yourself and your works and guessing at your own motivations?
Basho's haikus teach us to make use of productive ambiguity, the choice of words through which we may convey a secondary meaning. This is common practice in poetry, but it's only useful in the original language of the poem. Any translations, using a new language, will result in new and different ambiguities, completely apart from anything the author originally intended. This is an interesting parallel to the medium translation - the transference from print to film, spoken word to digital recordings, must be done with great care to ensure translation of intent and meaning as well as literal words. The use of this productive ambiguity can be a great asset or a terrible drawback. Essence is not affected by appearance, but appearance can convey mood, atmosphere, and feeling. There's also this idea of a revelation or epiphany as a device to share mood.
Much of this chapter is dedicated to the discussion of content versus intent - content is a result of and reveals intent. However, intent is widely interpolation from content, which reveals at least as much about the reader (the interpreter) as the writer (the creator, whose intent is being assumed). This raises an interesting question for the mystory: when you are both writer and reader, can you be trusted to find your own intent accurately, or are you reading yourself and your works and guessing at your own motivations?
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
2/9/2010
According to Ulmer, the first step in creating a mystory is to create a widesite, or "website version of your image of wide scope." The concept of wide scope was developed by Gerald Holton, who argued that every person possesses a guiding set of images that contribute to the person's state of mind or being. He also argued that this wide scope is developed by the time the person reaches the age of 18.
One of the goals of the EmerAgency is to change the school system so that people are assisted in developing their wide scope before entering the work force so that they can better prepare for their career. TheEmerAgency recommends doing this by way of website: hence, the widesite.
The widesite is made up of a series of websites that are each devoted to different areas of one's life. The person doing the work can then look for connections. The first installment of thewidesite relates to the person's career or field of disciplinary knowledge. The assignment Ulmer suggests doing focuses on gathering detailed (not generalized) information aboutpivotal moments in your career or field. He says that it resembles a research topic, except that instead of forming an argument, you are attempting to identify with the information. The project is meant to be personal, subjective, and related to an individual's specific specializations.
Briggs discusses Gerald Holton’s idea of themata. According to Holton, themata are gut assumptions that scientists have about the universe. He believes that these assumptions about the universe start early in childhood and are fairly consistent over time. Themata are not abstractions, but are perceptions that give the person a concrete feel for the surrounding world. Ulmer notes that themata has been found across professions and isn’t just limited to scientists.
DQ: What do you think could be the ideas that shaped some of
the popular superheroes view of the world? Ex. Batman, Superman,…
Interesting point: Page 24- Ulmer believes that “the proof
of the value of an invented term is its use.” He makes a strong point, but he may lose his overall message using invented terms instead of terms that are familiar to his audience. Ex. Language and grammar
Popcycle- the ensemble of all language or meaning-producing
activities into which members of a society are hailing. Hailing- the social or psychological process by which our identity is constructed. I had a teacher in high school who said that most people identify themselves off of the identity of others. This is probably because it is nearly impossible to identify yourself thoroughly without the involvement of your social surroundings. People see themselves reflected in others. We always see ourselves differently than how others see us.
This reminds me of the importance of society. People on their own are pretty much a blank slate; with people to interact with, personalities develop.
Dominant Institutions of the Popcyle: Family, Community,
Entertainment
The actual popcycle is the way ideas that are important to
the culture arise in the institutions
Note: Hailing needs more explanation
According to Ulmer, every institutional discourse has its
own icons which act as emblems for “scripts of normative behavior.” Pg. 26
DQ: What happens when the emblem doesn’t perform as
expected? Or does this never happen because that it the purpose of the emblem?
Grammatology-In this section, Ulmer forewarns readers that a number people do not agree with the following claims that he makes. Ulmer claims that most books are written in a disciplinary voice, that the internet is a book that is written in first person, and he feels that this allworks together to create a practice of electracy and emergancy. Ulmer provide the following as a backing for his stance. He explains how overtime the simplification of Aristotle's and Plato's discoveries and schools have lead to electracy. Ulmer uses the alphabet as an example, which was invented in the 19th century, and was invented to serve as a new type of recording device. This he says is an example of electracy.
Ulmer claims the goal is not to adapt digital technology to literacy. Instead he states how we should discover a new practice that can adequately develop and display the potential of new technology, and not adapt old practices/literacy to new form of technology.a
One of the goals of the EmerAgency is to change the school system so that people are assisted in developing their wide scope before entering the work force so that they can better prepare for their career. TheEmerAgency recommends doing this by way of website: hence, the widesite.
The widesite is made up of a series of websites that are each devoted to different areas of one's life. The person doing the work can then look for connections. The first installment of thewidesite relates to the person's career or field of disciplinary knowledge. The assignment Ulmer suggests doing focuses on gathering detailed (not generalized) information aboutpivotal moments in your career or field. He says that it resembles a research topic, except that instead of forming an argument, you are attempting to identify with the information. The project is meant to be personal, subjective, and related to an individual's specific specializations.
Briggs discusses Gerald Holton’s idea of themata. According to Holton, themata are gut assumptions that scientists have about the universe. He believes that these assumptions about the universe start early in childhood and are fairly consistent over time. Themata are not abstractions, but are perceptions that give the person a concrete feel for the surrounding world. Ulmer notes that themata has been found across professions and isn’t just limited to scientists.
DQ: What do you think could be the ideas that shaped some of
the popular superheroes view of the world? Ex. Batman, Superman,…
Interesting point: Page 24- Ulmer believes that “the proof
of the value of an invented term is its use.” He makes a strong point, but he may lose his overall message using invented terms instead of terms that are familiar to his audience. Ex. Language and grammar
Popcycle- the ensemble of all language or meaning-producing
activities into which members of a society are hailing. Hailing- the social or psychological process by which our identity is constructed. I had a teacher in high school who said that most people identify themselves off of the identity of others. This is probably because it is nearly impossible to identify yourself thoroughly without the involvement of your social surroundings. People see themselves reflected in others. We always see ourselves differently than how others see us.
This reminds me of the importance of society. People on their own are pretty much a blank slate; with people to interact with, personalities develop.
Dominant Institutions of the Popcyle: Family, Community,
Entertainment
The actual popcycle is the way ideas that are important to
the culture arise in the institutions
Note: Hailing needs more explanation
According to Ulmer, every institutional discourse has its
own icons which act as emblems for “scripts of normative behavior.” Pg. 26
DQ: What happens when the emblem doesn’t perform as
expected? Or does this never happen because that it the purpose of the emblem?
Grammatology-In this section, Ulmer forewarns readers that a number people do not agree with the following claims that he makes. Ulmer claims that most books are written in a disciplinary voice, that the internet is a book that is written in first person, and he feels that this allworks together to create a practice of electracy and emergancy. Ulmer provide the following as a backing for his stance. He explains how overtime the simplification of Aristotle's and Plato's discoveries and schools have lead to electracy. Ulmer uses the alphabet as an example, which was invented in the 19th century, and was invented to serve as a new type of recording device. This he says is an example of electracy.
Ulmer claims the goal is not to adapt digital technology to literacy. Instead he states how we should discover a new practice that can adequately develop and display the potential of new technology, and not adapt old practices/literacy to new form of technology.a
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
2/2/2010
Gregory L. Ulmer's text Internet Invention plans to teach us about Electracy. He explains that "electracy is an image apparatus, keeping in mind that 'images' are made with words as well as with pictures" (page 2). The idea of using the internet for the high held "literature" is still new to us. "Literature" with a capital L is usually still seen in society as a published book. We still have more respect for the quality of those pieces than what we find online. Ulmer tells us that now is the time for change. "We should consider this moment as a time for invention" (page 5) and it is us, the students who are here to help invent the future of writing.
Ulmer proposes a plan of education in which we create a mystory. Here, we wish to say "a plan of education that culminates in a mystory" but it cannot culminate as the creation of the mystory is as much a process of the learning as is reading the text. Through the mystory creation process we are to be learning. In this way, discovery and invention are tied together. He is almost creating a perpetual motion machine of creativity. The idea is one of a self-fueling lesson. He asks only that we suspend our disbelief and participate.
The mystory was motivated by the idea of history history being invented in the 20th century, and that if it had been it would have a different aesthetic, "not positivism but quantum relativity; not realism but surrealism." (page 5). The idea of a mystory starts with students mapping out themselves in relation to "Career field or major; Family, Entertainment; community History" (page 6). It will be interesting to see how each of our mystories come to be.
Ulmer proposes a plan of education in which we create a mystory. Here, we wish to say "a plan of education that culminates in a mystory" but it cannot culminate as the creation of the mystory is as much a process of the learning as is reading the text. Through the mystory creation process we are to be learning. In this way, discovery and invention are tied together. He is almost creating a perpetual motion machine of creativity. The idea is one of a self-fueling lesson. He asks only that we suspend our disbelief and participate.
The mystory was motivated by the idea of history history being invented in the 20th century, and that if it had been it would have a different aesthetic, "not positivism but quantum relativity; not realism but surrealism." (page 5). The idea of a mystory starts with students mapping out themselves in relation to "Career field or major; Family, Entertainment; community History" (page 6). It will be interesting to see how each of our mystories come to be.
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