... with further implications for change. I am going to interrogate what e-writing might become for us, the Coming Composing Community; and I am going to discuss e-journals specifically in terms of collaboration. There are so many other ways of discussing e-texts and e-journals, but I want to concentrate on two singular, yet ever-plural aspects.
I feel confident in saying that no one today knows what writing will have become in electronic environments. I am well aware of the magnificent work done by so many good writers of hypertext, especially Mark Amerika and those who work with him,
I am not--what I have done for this conference--... I am not writing the future. What I am doing is basically still given to and by Literacy, not what Greg Ulmer calls Electracy. Hence, my repetitive use of the pencil being resharpened. We are in a loop. At best, I ... as well as others ... can but create the momentary conditions for the possibilities of a writing that will be re/produced in the Coming Composing Community. Like the days of early television, I only perform for you an analogical extension of radio being done on television. Think of me as Arthur Godfrey on Television! It would have been easier for me to do a 30 minute Flash project and just sit in the audience. But literacy conferences are also about seeing faces and listening to voices that are not digitized. There are other media venues for conferences! But I fear we are into this F2F Careerism thing! While our work lies ahead of us, our playing to zero degree does as well, until we can get out of this stupid binary of work(serious)/play(ludic) that serves no one but the forces of fury. Ressentiment. I am more interested in the shaping forces of electricity on literacy that wants to become electracy. On what will have become ... Total Collaboration! Turning to the next band, I will attempt to THINK the event (the event of appropriation, of what Derrida calls the gram) in my musings on samplings from two films,
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