TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: The EmerAgency Part One: CAREER DISCOURSE 1. MYSTORY Studio The Image of Wide Scope General Project: The Widesite Disciplinary Discourse ASSIGNMENT: Career Discourse Lecture I Am Speaking "Theory" Popcycle Grammatology (The Ulmer File) The Thing The Invention of "Definition" Exercise: Term Extensions Felt making Anti-Definition Exercise: Counter-Dictionary Office 2. IMAGE Lecture How The Image Becomes Categorical (Electracy) Exercise: Obtuse Meanings Haiku Reason Basho Exercise: Haiku Design Wabi-Sabi Voice (Mood) State of Mind (Attunement) Epiphany Exercise: Illuminations The Natural Standpoint Office Part Two: FAMILY DISCOURSE 3. HOME AND FAMILY Lecture Narrative Home(page)sick Exercise: Homepage Exercise: Decision Scene The Two Economies Mystory Studio Structural Portraits Exercise: Frederick Douglass ASSIGNMENT: Family Discourse Snapshots Exercise: Family Album Endocept Exercise: Memory Glimpse Anecdote Micro Narrative Exercise: Micro Scenes Office 4. COSMOGRAM Ulmer File Xanadu Mapping the Diegesis Studio Chora (Sacred Space) The Personal Sacred Cosmogram Exercise: A Cosmogram Memory Palace Exercise: Mapping Home Domestic Altars Exercise: Vernacular Genres Remake (Ulmer File) Mapping a Chora (My Xanadu) Exercise (Mapping the Popcycle) The Phantom Trailer The Baby-Blue Cadillac String Theory Cyberpidgin Office Part Three: ENTERTAINMENT DISCOURSE 5. INTERFACE IMPRESSIONS Studio Beyond Identification ASSIGNMENT: Entertainment Discourse The Method Remake Plato's PHAEDRUS Interface Tables Dialogue Death Tables Truth Tables Dressing Tables Detachability (The Gram) Table Turning Office 6. CYBERPIDGIN Lecture Virtual Feeling From Pidgin to Creole Fetishturgy First Encounters Exercise: Fetishscreen Alien Encounters Exercise: Pidgin Signs Turntable Emblematics Alice in Cyberspace No Guarantees Office Part Four: COMMUNITY DISCOURSE 7. HISTORY (SCHOOL) Lecture The Donor Exercise: The Quest Schema Value Studio Receiver Exercise: On the Premises ASSIGNMENT: Community Discourse (History) Examples Glenn Ligon May Stevens Ficelle Riddles of Sense Exercise: High Concept The Ulmer File: Vision Quest Medicine Ficelle Orality Identity Ritual A Missed Encounter Office 8. THE BAR (STREET) Studio Last Call (Reliable Sources) Exercise (Policy Research) Remake A Blues Legend (Robert Johnson at the Crossroads) The Modernist Brothel Song Exercise: Lyric Evaluation The Tables Are Turned Cyber Duende Lecture The Bar As Such Whatever Chora Stanza The Task Exercise: Being Singular Office Part Five: EMBLEMS OF WIDE SCOPE 9. EMBLEM Studio The Second Threshold ASSIGNMENT: The Wide Emblem Exercise: Patterning Advertising Emblems The Readymade Exercise: Automatic Emblems Remake Neocowboys (Marlboro Man) Lifestyles Exercise: Ad Art Art: Tarkovsky The Image Seance The Ulmer File The School of the Dead Noon Star (Emblem) Office 10. THE IDEAL OF VALUE Studio Happiness Exercise: Personals Commodity Ritual Remake/Ulmer File Remarkable Meetings Genealogy of Morals The Alienated Sage The Ascetic Ideal Predestination Exercise: Noticing Default Moods The March of Humanity The Whirling Square Mataturista Office CONCLUSION: Culture War or Syncretism? Studio The Gift of Aporia Exercise: Testimony Lecture Master-Slave (Again) Heuretics The Funk The Corporate Actant Exercise: Corporate States of Mind Value Reserves From Thing to Thang Exercise: Mood Spectrum How to Forget a Cowboy Formless What Next? ASSIGNMENT: A Consultation (Postponed) Office WORKS CITED