3/23/2010

Cyberpidgin
"We are in the special world of enterainmend discourse, scene of the spectacle and of emergent electracy. “Spectacle” names the literate experience of the electrate apparatus. The interbody metaphor must mediate a global encounter among strangers in an atmosphere of compassion fatigue, indifference, or misunderstanding, perhaps even PTSD". This excerpt from page 155 of Ulmers Internet Invention shows that events of our lives affect us in a very dramatic way.
Technology: "The internet as a technology of packet switching, designed to survive a nuclear strike targeting the nation’s communications network" Here on page 155 Ulmer shows the significance of technology on the mystory.
Ulmer conitnues showing us ideas key to the mystroy with Identity on page 155 "The rhetoric of the unconscious as described by psychoanalysis, featuring the devices of figurative language or image making such as condensation, displacement, or secondary elaboration, by means of which a latent thought manifest itself in a fragmentary, encrypted, indirect manner".
Ulmer furthers ideas on the mystory again with Institution on page 156 "The social corollary of these technological and psychological registers is the survival of the African oral culture in the Americas and its syncretism with Western literature institutions: “Voodoo is the African aesthetic shattered and the desperately put back together. More than simply ‘put back together,’ it has been recreated to serve its people under the shattering impact of slavery and poverty”
Pidgin begins as a language for doing business in the absence of a common language among different peoples, and evolves into a creole in the speech of pidgin-speaking children, once the pidgin has become so common that it is spoken in the home"
Fetishturgy
Ulmer speaks about levels of communication on page 159 by saying that "The analogy between the destroyed network of military command still able to function after suffering a first nuclear strike, and the ruined messages of dream work, scrambled into nonsense by repression yet received and understood in a way by the dreamer, is one of the operative “packets” of chorography. The equivalent ruin at the sociohisorical level is the Black Atlantic –the persistence of African culture through the catastrophe of the middle passage, the diaspora of slavery disseminating individuals throughout the Americas".
First Encounters
Ulmer speaks to the importance of meetings by saying "To figure what happens when electrate people meet online, we may call upon the experience of colonial encounters as a relay (to remind ourselves how different electracy is from the experience of School)."