Ubimage (apparatus correlation of ubiquitous computing and imaging) reoccupies a relationship between place and culture first exercise as Dreamtime by Australian Aborigenes. Dreamtime is a mnemonic system of wayfinding in which mythologies (ritual and story) coded features of the landscape to guide a nomadic economy.
The functionality of this ancient wisdom system is a variation on the larger context of avatar functionality guiding ubimage. Several such correspondences have been mapped for Alachua County.
Gregory L. Ulmer is Professor of English and Media Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL. He is coordinator of the Florida Research Ensemble. The purpose of this blog is to develop and test the equivalent of a metaphysics for the digital apparatus: electracy.
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