Fifth Estate

Jack Stenner's seminar in the Fine Arts College concluded with a lecture by Gregory Ulmer on the Fifth Estate. Ulmer used the film based on the actions of Julian Assange and Wikileaks as a point of departure for discussing the heuretics of electracy.

After some post-postproduction treatment, Stenner expended many hours to the compression and uploading of the video to YouTube, only to receive a warning that the algorithm detected a minute of copyrighted material at the beginning of the tape (Ulmer showed the "I Quit" video that is posted on YouTube, in which the artist dances to a Kanye West song). That video has been up for some time, long enough to receive 17 million hits. Will Stenner be forced to re-edit the tape and expend another multitude of hours?

The Keyword (take away) action item for the EmerAgency Konsult is: Theopraxesis (Knowing-Doing-Making in one performance).

About author

Gregory Ulmer |

Gregory L. Ulmer is Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida. His most recent publications include Avatar Emergency (Parlor Press, 2012), and Electracy (the Davies Group, 2015).