6. Choral Konsult: Augmented Reality for Electrate Learning

The authors revisit Miami Virtue: Choragraphy of the Virtual City, the project initiating their collaboration in the Florida Research Ensemble, as a point of departure for updating their project to invent education native to electracy (the digital apparatus). Historically, electracy as an epoch is also characterized as the Anthropocene, identifying a causal force of reality as humanity itself (supplementing previous causalities of God and Nature). Digital technology institutionalized in entertainment corporations threatens total commodification of human visceral appetite (The Matrix). Against this disaster, Konsult as a genre for electrate learning is invented by analogy with the invention of the Dialogue in the Athenian Academies. The Greeks configured a “stack” based on Aristotle’s topical logic (Topos), correlating a systematic relationship among physical places, alphabetic writing technology, the archive of recorded culture, new rhetorical practices, and the living memory of students. Benjamin Bratton described the new technological stack (Earth, Cloud, City, Address, Interface, User) of electracy. Choral Konsult reconfigures this stack with an alternative concept of space, Chora, also of Greek origin, reanimated in poststructural philosophy. Theorizing the visceral imagination as Chora, correlated with the inventions of avant-garde modernist arts as a logic of appetites, Choragraphy proposes an augmented reality pedagogy to do for human passions what topical logics did for a reason.