出版社：Center for Interdisciplinary Writing and Research
摘要：The Florida Research Ensemble (FRE) a group of colleagues who met at the University of Florida, began experimenting with inventing practices for the digital apparatus (electracy) in the mid-1990s. Our research questions were posed in a literate way by means of definitions and propositional logic (what is "electracy"? what is "image"? what is "place"?). This interrogative asking ―what is?" was invented by the Classical Greeks in the first schools (the Academy, the Lyceum) and is expressed today in books and journals as required by our institution (school is one of the inventions of literacy as apparatus or social machine). These are relevant questions, and I am still writing, but the style of address is changing, becoming aesthetic, figural, in order to discover or create a mode of gathering that does for digital technologies what Aristotle‘s ―category‖ did for alphabetic writing. The philosophical name for an electrate category is ―chora‖ (also Greek), whose function as generator of measure is explored here through the figure of Florida. Literate readers always want to understand immediately ―what is ‗chora‘?‖ or ―what is ‗Florida‘?‖ Electrate players want to undergo it. To undergo (to feel, to experience) Florida through text requires us to collaborate
