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Thin Blue Line meaning?

I have been trying to think of what my thin blue line could mean. It sort of looks like glasses. It sort of looks like strings. Or a bikini. None of these really make sense... I own all three objects. Maybe I will make a new one because I didn't put Japan on it. We shall see!

Thin Blue Line

Group Post: Ulmer intro

This week we had to make another group post on the intro to Internet Invention.

Gregory L. Ulmer's text Internet Invention plans to teach us about Electracy. He explains that "electracy is an image apparatus, keeping in mind that 'images' are made with words as well as with pictures" (page 2). The idea of using the internet for the high held "literature" is still new to us. "Literature" with a capital L is usually still seen in society as a published book. We still have more respect for the quality of those pieces than what we find online. Ulmer tells us that now is the time for change. "We should consider this moment as a time for invention" (page 5) and it is us, the students who are here to help invent the future of writing.

Ulmer proposes a plan of education in which we create a mystory. Here, we wish to say "a plan of education that culminates in a mystory" but it cannot culminate as the creation of the mystory is as much a process of the learning as is reading the text. Through the mystory creation process we are to be learning. In this way, discovery and invention are tied together. He is almost creating a perpetual motion machine of creativity. The idea is one of a self-fueling lesson. He asks only that we suspend our disbelief and participate.

The mystory was motivated by the idea of history history being invented in the 20th century, and that if it had been it would have a different aesthetic, "not positivism but quantum relativity; not realism but surrealism." (page 5). The idea of a mystory starts with students mapping out themselves in relation to "Career field or major; Family, Entertainment; community History" (page 6). It will be interesting to see how each of our mystories come to be.

I'm excited to see how our mystories come out and compare to each other, but even more excited to see the process what will go into it.