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ISSUES IN ELECTRACY: From Literacy to Electronic Languages (3 credits)

Gregory Ulmer, Ph.D.

Description: This course 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. We will go beyond agency in our exploration of theory in today’s world. Through intensive readings and classroom seminars we will engage the complex and unique thought of Gregory Ulmer.

Required Readings:

Ulmer, Gregory. Teletheory. Atropos Press. 2004. Paperback, 328 pages, Language English, ISBN: 0974853402. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ulmer, Gregroy. Heuretics - The Logic of Invention. Johns Hopkins University Press. May 1994, Hardcover, ISBN: 0801847176. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ulmer, Gregory. Electronic Monuments (Electronic Mediations). ISBN: 0816645833. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Ulmer, Gregory. Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix.

Ulmer, Gregory. and Talan Memmot. "Towards Electracy: A Conversation with Gregory Ulmer."

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. What Is Philosophy. Columbia University press, 1994. ISBN: 0231079893. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Recommended Readings:

Blanchot, Maurice. The Writing of the Disaster. ISBN: 0803261209. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Agamben, Giorgio. The Coming Community. ISBN: 0816622353. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Plato. Phaedrus. ISBN: 0192802771. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Cixous, Helene. Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing. ISBN: 0231076592. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Foucault, Michelle. The Hermeneutics of the Subject. Picador, 2001. ISBN: 0312425708. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology. The John Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 0801858305. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.