Bricolage: The construction or creation from a diverse range of available things. French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss introduces us to the bricoleur and contrasts the bricoleur with the engineer or …

Communications Executive | Rhetorician | Writer | Embodied Performance & Wellness Coach
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Bricolage: The construction or creation from a diverse range of available things. French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss introduces us to the bricoleur and contrasts the bricoleur with the engineer or …

Teletheory by Greg Ulmer By Stacy Cacciatore Questions for Stacy to bring up Technology – why do we always devalue the value new technology brings to society? Memorization –He brings …

Heuretics – Ulmer Analogy. The method becomes an invention when it relies on analogy and chance (Buchler, 14). If methods tend to be practiced as algorithms, their invention is heuristic (heuretics is a heuristic approach to theory). To help invent the dialectic, Plato relies on “The Manifesto of Surrealism,” and for that matter all of the manifestos of the avant-garde, belong to the tradition of the discourse on method. A comparison of Breton’s manifesto with the various classics of the method reveals that they tend to include a common set of elements, which are representable for mnemonic reference by the acronym CATTt (Ulmer, 1991b). The CATTt includes the following operations: C = Contrast (opposition, inversion, differentiation) A Analogy (figuration, displacement) T = Theory (repetition, literalization) T Target (application, purpose) t = Tale (secondary elaboration, representability) Writing as technology is a memory machine, with each apparatus finding different means to collect, store, and retrieve information outside of any one individual mind (in rituals, habits, libraries, or databases). Part of the contribution of hypermedia as The target for my method is the models of memory developed for it, inasmuch as individuals and societies tend to internalize as forms of reasoning the operations of their tools. The current state of computer interface design, then, may hold some valuable lessons for Derridean heuretics. What is our relationship with technology, language and memory – writing in the margins, …