... with further implications for change. PART TWO:
--Think about this for a while:
Though outside rhetoric/composition, in affiliation, the exception that comes to my mind is the group at "trAce" in the UK and their e-journal "frAme." Much of the writing t.here is "native electracy." I say native while I virtually mean to say "e.stranger electracy." The un.kind of e-writing that potentiality is calling for, is, indeed, strange (uncanny) in its so-called proper home (canniness). As it must be!come! I would insist on this judgment, if not in.cite it (as eye have done here in a series of dérives or détournements via ... decoupage ... floating ... citations)! ... There's much more to be said about the Situationists in terms of their association with the "Letterist International" but they are history and time here today is scheduled.
... Let us move, therefore, to What we are doing--as "trAce" is doing--that at this very historical moment in time is by(e) far more important than whatever e-writing wants to be.come. And that is, in a single word, "collaboration." E-space demands--and not gently--for its workers to collaborate. In my estimation, our best e-journal in R/C is "Kairos," which is thoroughly, from beginning to endless, a collaborative effort. Our best competing e-journal might be "The Writing Instructor," which has recently announced its efforts to "virtually resurrect" the old print journal to the Web itself. Under the co-editorship of David Blakesley and Dawn Formo, this e-journal is coming to life by way of an editorial ... no, I should say ... by way of a collaborative board that should fundamentally rethink what "publishing" is in our field, in fact, should fundamentally rethink the field that nostalgically wants to be a discipline and work like a discipline. Together, Yet Alone (@canny)!
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Let me repeat my point: collaboration, as it is being redefined,
TOTAL COLLABORATION,
will eventually change our conditions and therefore--I would think--possibilities toward electracy. Instead of one person's effort as individual worker (genius!), it will be multitudes making a new field. The technology ... No ... Potentiality demands that we reach toward a new field! Yes, that will be itself "composed" of multitudes! Perhaps a HIVE! By(e) which I mean, again, no individual, no species, no gen(i)us, no queen bee, no kingdom. But a field of radical singularities as a Hive.
Am I casuistically stretching things here by(e) way of Kevin Kelly? Perhaps so!
I leave so much unsaid here. For us!
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