Welcome New ENG 1710 Students. I’m glad you and we are here. The quote below will be a touchstone for the rest of the semester.
The insight of apparatus is that the four primary institutions of ISA—Family, Church, School, Media—are precisely the primary institutionalizations of apparatus (Paleo, Oral, Literate, Electrate), each originating in its own epoch, with its own metaphysics, coexisting historically now, and in need of attunement into a tempered “stack.” The challenge of electrate pedagogy is to discover how we are positioned within these institutions and how to take control of this positioning on behalf of individual and collective well-being.
–Gregory L. Ulmer “Electracy.”
