HEUretic*
In science, the most exciting expression isn’t “Eureka!” It’s “Huh?” Michael Hawley.
Self-Portrait
This bulletin board was in my office from 1980 until just the other day, when I moved to a new space. This blog is a kind of inhabitable assemblage, whose point of departure is whatever that collection amounted to. The dynamic here is an unfolding of an inquiry that cyrstallizes regularly into seminars. Comments welcome.
“Heuretics” refers to the use of theory for the invention of new texts (poetics of any sort). It is listed in the O.E.D. as obsolete or rare, and paired with “hermeneutics,” the use of theory for the interpretation of existing texts. The purpose of this blog is to develop and apply heuretics. The primary target of this experiment is “electracy,” the apparatus of digital technology.
Some of this material may appear in print at some time in the future (3 to 5 years?). Or maybe not. Some editorial boards are saying about “electracy”: we don’t get it. Why not just put everything here, without the constraints of argumentation and gatekeepers?
What is the significance of the header scene?
(Gregory Ulmer is Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida).
[*One who practices heuREtics.]
Your self-portrait reminds me of the miriad flow of old and new themes in my own life – you ave chosen a great image to represent the complexity of being you! I am enjoying this process of ‘recognition’ and anticipate moe to come – communication has become one of my areas of interest – visual, literary, and all of the other means of communicating through types, themes, iconic symbols and allusion. JanW.
By: Jan Maureen White on January 1, 2009
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