Read | Write The Learning Screen by Greg Ulmer — in Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art):

ABSTRACT: Networked art, new media innovations, and the Internet as a cultural phenomenon in general are manifestations of a civilizational shift in the apparatus (social machine) from literacy to electracy. The historical analogy (grammatology) with the previous (and still ongoing) shift from orality to literacy shows that the shift is gradual, with many transitional features, but ultimately produces a new dimension of experience in every area of the lifeworld (technology, institutions, individual and collective identity behavior). This essay addresses the situation of teaching electracy in a literate institution, describing a pedagogy for bootstrapping literate practices into an electrate skillset. What is the fundamental practice (logic, rhetoric, poetics) of thinking and communicating native to online learning? This reasoning is separate from any software or hardware techniques, and concerns an aesthetic operation of organizing information into understanding relative to action using figural structures guided by affective experience. Electrate categories and abstractive compressions function not as transcendent universals but as proportional analogies exploiting patterns of repeating signifiers across all modalities. The “ratio” of this figure is open to vanguard experiment. The essay samples this pedagogy at three levels: undergraduate literature majors; graduate media studies; collaborative arts research.