Mr. M
Greg Ulmer and the Invent-L list have been having a moderately interesting discussion on blogs that Greg is calling “blogetics” (a portmanteau of “blog” and “poetics”). Much of the discussion, interestingly enough, is about rhetorics, however. If you’re familiar with electracy, as many of you are, then you’re aware that much of Greg’s theorizing has been in line with using the web as a place to explore and build–with blank canvas–the apparatus of electracy.
As G shares with the list, the turn towards using blogs next semester is a change in his teaching practices, motivated by both external and internal forces. Much of the debate has to do with whether the blog is a too self-limiting avenue for the development of electracy. Some members have weighed in, describing cool electronic artistic and interactive installation projects, suggesting that the blog couldn’t pull off these crazy artistic stunts. Others have mentioned the ideological technics of the blog, structuring and prestructuring design and experimental tendencies into preconceived formats.
That’s all cool, and I’m enjoying the spark of discussion that is going on there, but that’s not the reason for this post. As an aside, Glue has been telling us that he’s been brushing up on his photoshopping skills. He sent out this self portrait he calls Mr. Mentality. Bravo!
