Think Electrate -- Week 4 Orientation
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The document outlines Richard Smyth's upcoming online course "Inventing Electrate Thinking Practices" which will discuss using spatial metaphors and imagery to organize thought. It previews readings on topics like embodied cognition, memory palaces, and spatial theories of thinking. The goal is to explore how consciously applying the metaphor of thinking spatially can help develop electrate strategies for reasoning.
Think Electrate -- Week 4 Orientation
- 1. Think Electrate: Inventing Electrate Thinking Practices Richard Smyth, C.M. Full Digressor UnderAcademy College 24 May 2013 Week 4: Orientation
- 2. Week 3 Review --read Ulmer essay “Florida Measure (Chora)” --Forum discussions about emblem writing and iconic images --Google Hangout discussion – “Florida Measure” as comic – testifying as electrate strategy – on master tropes of literacy & electracy – remix as rhetorical dispositio / arrangement as inventio
- 3. Week 4 Preview --Continue prior weeks' discussions --read Richard Smyth's “Imaging Place as Imaging Thought” essay --Week 4 discussion questions in forum --continue discussion of key questions --thinkelectrate.wikispaces.com --Google Hangout: time to be determined
- 4. Memory Palace as Image Writing --ancient rhetorical mnemonic strategy --use of images in locations to help in ordering and identifying “topoi” (topics) of a speech --rhetorical guides suggested using striking & vivid images set in a familiar space --spatial thinking/reasoning
- 5. Embodied Cognition --metaphorical concepts: dead or forgotten metaphors that structure thought --”The Mind is a Body Moving through Space”
- 6. Embodied Cognition Some related metaphorical concepts: --Ideas are Locations --Reason is a Force --A Line of Thought is A Path --Communicating is Guiding --Understanding is Following --Inability to Think is Inability to Move (Lakoff and Johnson 236)
- 7. Spatial Theory of Thinking “...reasoning requires going beyond language and is based on the construction, inspection, and variation of spatially organized mental representations.” (Knauff xi)
- 8. Memory Palace as Spatial Thinking “This combination of a nonsymbolic representation of 'where' information and a symbolic representation of 'what' information is, I think, highly suitable for a cognitive theory of human reasoning.” (Knauff 38)
- 9. Examples of Spatial Thinking “A post (future) writing would leave these assumptions at the center of (current) traditional composition pedagogy and move to the wayside, the gutter” (Figueiredo 14). “...allow a free play of the imagination to take alternate routes” (Figueiredo 16).
- 10. Imaging Place as Imaging Thought --an invitation to think with/in/through this metaphorical concept --essay is an attempt to “show and tell” --relevant in the age of augmented reality and locative media --how can conscious awareness of this metaphorical concept help us to “think electrate”?
- 11. References Figueiredo, Sergio. Un/Composing (Visual) Rhetorics: A Comic(s) View of Writing in the Age of New Media. Diss. Clemson University, 2011. Print. Knauff, Markus. Space to Reason: A Spatial Theory of Human Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012. Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind And Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.