Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Copyright page / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Dedication / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Foreword / Madison Jones -- Preface / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Outline / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Acknowledgments / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Introduction The EmerAgency / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Part 1 Miami – Image / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 1 Occasion / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 2 Place / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 3 Situation / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 4 Encounter / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 5 Memory / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Part 2 Myami – Narrative / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 6 Allegory / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 7 Mystory 1 / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 8 Mystory 2 / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 9 Mystory 3 / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 10 Mystory 4 / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Part 3 Miautre – Oracle / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 11 Reading / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 12 Invention / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 13 Jazz / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 14 Vortex / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Chapter 15 Choramancy / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson -- Afterword Electrate Virtue / Gregory L. Ulmer and John Craig Freeman -- Works Cited / Gregory L. Ulmer , Barbara Jo Revelle , John Craig Freeman , and William L. Tilson.

The Florida Research Ensemble (Ulmer, Revelle, Freeman and Tilson) is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group developing choragraphy, a method of inquiry which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design and testing of image as category. The authors argue that image categories functions for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literate concepts. “Chora” was retrieved for contemporary philosophy by Jacques Derrida, in the context of his deconstruction of Western metaphysics. Grounded in grammatology (the history and theory of writing), Derrida’s critique of Being and Becoming as primary concepts of reality is that the category or classification system invented within literacy is not adequate for the apparatus of electracy that has developed since the industrial revolution. The FRE project in Miami designed and tested a prototype for a choral category, capable of coordinating real places, cultural collective information, digital technologies, and personal experience. Miami Virtue tested choragraphy as a method for adopting a particular region (the Miami River), including primary discourses organizing its lifeworld, and articulating it as a category of thought. The designed and recorded virtual site functions for electracy the way concepts function for literacy: as a navigable set supporting holistic intelligence and public discourse.

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