Gregory Ulmer

Gregory Ulmer ( born December 23, 1944) is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Florida ( Gainesville ).

Life

From 1972 to 1977 Ulmer worked as a lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the University of Florida in 1979 and appointed Chairman of the Institute. Since then, he had a permanent job there and was for the period from 1987 to 1990, co-director of the Institute of European & Comparative Studies. In addition, he was from 1968 to 1989 director of the movie Scientific program ( the film studies program).

Many of his pioneering theories developed from his puns, such as "text shop", " choragraphy ", "applied Grammatology ", " mystory ", " heuretics " and "post ( e) - pedagogy ". His findings, of what he called " forward-looking awareness," designed to use the power of intuition as a mode of creation of forms of knowledge, have been re- imposed methodology of students from around the world.

One of these projects is Illogic of Sense: The Gregory L. Ulmer Remix, an e -book publication that illustrates how Ulmer's outstanding work central to contemporary thinking about the future of writing and new forms of digital rhetoric was. The book was from the Alt-X Verlag, founded by a former student named Mark Ulmer America, edited. In addition, there is the long-awaited potential of on-line publications are final justice.

Gregory Ulmer's work set the focus on hypertext, electracy (describes the skill, the full communicative potential of the new electronic media to use as multimedia) and cyber language and are often associated with " emerAgency ", " fetishturgy ", " choragraphy " and " mystoriography " in connection brought.

Works

• Applied Grammatology: Post ( e) - Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys
• Tele Theory: Grammatology in the Age of Video
• Heuretics: The Logic of Invention
• Internet Invention: From Literacy to electracy
• Electronic Monuments