{"product_id":"konsult-theopraxesis-hardcover","title":"Konsult: Theopraxesis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregory L. Ulmer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElectracy and Transmedia Studies\u003cbr\u003e ​​​​​​​Series Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA motto guiding Gregory L. Ulmer's career is from the poet Basho: \u003cem\u003enot to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but to seek what they sought.\u003c\/em\u003e The responsibility of humanities disciplines today is to do for the digital apparatus (social machine) what the classical Greeks did for alphabetic writing. Ulmer frames online learning as a mode of invention (heuretics), beginning with the invention of konsult itself. \u003cem\u003eKonsult: Theopraxesis\u003c\/em\u003e describes the invention of a genre of learning that is to digital media what Plato's dialogue was to alphabetic writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Greeks invented the practices of writing (rhetoric and logic) native to the new institution of school (the Academy), fostering a new behavior of selfhood (Socrates). Ulmer adopts this historical precedent as a relay, an inventory for what must be invented again today: a genre of learning, an educational institution, identity behavior. The insight of electracy is that each apparatus augments and institutionalizes one of the primary faculties of human intelligence: \u003cem\u003etheoria\u003c\/em\u003e in literacy; \u003cem\u003epraxis\u003c\/em\u003e in orality; \u003cem\u003epoiesis\u003c\/em\u003e in electracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeeded today are not practices of writing, but \"theopraxesis\" of media. The analytical information economy of literacy required separation and isolation (siloing) of institutionalized intelligence. The multimodality of electracy enables syncretism of faculties into holistic performance: thinking-doing-making; knowledge-purpose-affect. The interface metaphor of Plato's dialogue was an oral conversation during which the illiterate interlocutor is introduced to dialectical reason as Idea. The interface metaphor of konsult is scientific consulting during which anelectrate students encounter plasmatic desire as simulacrum. This new learning is organized around an updating of \u003cem\u003eJustice\u003c\/em\u003e native to electracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory L. Ulmer is Professor Emeritus, English and Media Studies, University of Florida. He is Coordinator of the Florida Research Ensemble, and Joseph Beuys Chair of the European Graduate School. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eElectracy\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), \u003cem\u003eAvatar Emergency\u003c\/em\u003e (2012), and \u003cem\u003eMiami Virtue\u003c\/em\u003e (2012). His current project is Konsult Experiment (www.konsultexperiment.com) a blog affiliated with the Electracy and Transmedia Studies series, edited by Jan Holmevik and Cynthia Haynes for Parlor Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 306\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42741783691327,"sku":"9781643170688","price":120.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9612cbe669f1f06334b848fe79bb7ddc.webp?v=1765161740","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/konsult-theopraxesis-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}