On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Gregory Ulmer wrote:
Hi Craig
Thanks for setting up this venue. We talked a while back about making our process part of the story (hopefully not the whole story), to disseminate the principle of E for a new consultancy. The idea is to demonstrate how the Internet and related tools (databases for eg) support not just collaboration but integration of knowledge. To be tested is the capacity of a blog to assemble through juxtaposition different modes of knowledge. Will this juxtaposition create emergent effects of insight? To find out, of course, we will have to participate.
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Greg
April 15, 2008 at 10:56 am |
Brief report on our meeting today (April 14):
a most satisfying outcome. The conversation produced some new ideas about how the collaboration could evolve. I will list a few that remain in active memory (not looking at my notes at the moment).
1. All parties agree to be active participants in directing which way or what we pursue in this bootstrapping process.
2. Some quality f2f meetings a priority, such as the “Bhutan hour” (a nation with constitutional protections for happiness).
Such a meeting will be scheduled for early-ish May.
3. Diversification of inputs, not confined to Internet and digital, such as drawings, snapshots, (recipes?). Such presentations may be taped and streamed to the Web. (Waa that an iTouch Mike was wielding?)
4. Confirmation of local focus (Xanadu composite). A proposal to document a favorite local site on the blog.
5. Aesthetic/pleasure as a guiding feeling directing the nature of the collaboration. Justified by the value of “wellness,” “flourishing,” and the like as ethical and political goals motivating sustainability. Also justified by apparatus theory that predicts entertainment as the dominant educational institution in electracy.
6. Alright already we’ll visit the bloomin’ blog once a week or so.
7. The creation of an electrate mode of consultation is not primarily, or in the first instance, a problem of technology, even if ultimately it may only be realized within the capacities of new media (databases, social networking and the like).
8. Electrate metaphysics is holistic. No aspect of the researchers’ experience is irrelevant to the collaboration.
9. Some documentation of our process, including all of its zigs and zags, is important to achieving world peace in our time.
These come to mind. Perhaps more items to list.