Chora: The Intersection of Space/Place and Electracy
The chora is linked to the preverbal stage and is "neither intelligible nor visible; it cannot be contemplated by the eyes of the soul, nor observed by the eyes of the body" (Cavarero 134).
While chorography as a term is close to choreography, it duplicates a term that already exists in the discipline of geography, thus establishing a valuable resonance for a rhetoric of invention concerned with the history of "place" in relation to memory (Ulmer 39).
Memory, Memorials, and MEmorials
"Memory is activated by present concerns, issues, or anxieties" (Dickinson et al 6).
MEmorials
"The MEmorial . . . Allows students and citizens to use the Internet as a civic space" (Ulmer xvii).
"The MEmorial is a form of humanities visualization of data sets, giving insight into large-scale complex processes and events within an arts and letters frame of reference" (44).
"The first step in the design of a MEmorial is to notice an abject loss that the community acknowledges is a problem but that is not accepted as a sacrifice on behalf of a belief or value structuring a group subject" (134).
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