Jürgen Habermas

Fredric Jameson

Edward W. Said

Rosalind Krauss

Kenneth Frampton

Craig Owens

Gregory L. Ulmer

Essays on Postmodern Culture

The Anti-Aesthetic

While corporations, governmental groups, and public relations firms debated the best way to memorialize the event of 9/11, sites of commemoration could be seen across the country and especially on the Internet. Greg Ulmer suggests that this reality points us to a new sense of monumentality, one that is collaborative in nature rather than iconic. From a do-it-yourself Mount Rushmore to an automated tribute to the devastating annual toll of traffic deaths in the United States, Electronic Monuments describes commemoration as a fundamental experience, joining individual and collective identity, and adapting both to the emerging apparatus of “electracy,” or digital literacy. Concerns about the destruction of civic life caused by the society of the spectacle are refocused on the question of how a collectivity remembers who or what it is. Ulmer proposes that the Internet makes it possible for monumentality to become a primary site of self-knowledge, one that supports a new politics, ethics, and dimension of education. The Internet thus holds the promise of bringing citizens back into the political equation as witnesses and monitors. Gregory L. Ulmer is professor of English and media studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Electronic Monuments

Barbara Jo Revelle

John Craig Freeman

William L Tilson

The Florida Research Ensemble is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group experimenting with choragraphy, which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design of image as category. Image categories function for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literacy.

Choragraphy of the Virtual City

Miami Virtue

In Heuretics—a word defined as "the branch of logic that treats the art of discovery or invention"—Gregory Ulmer sets forth new methods appropriate for conducting cultural studies research in an age of electronic hypermedia.

The Logic of Invention

Heuretics

Gregory L. Ulmer

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