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La heurstica,
While readers might associate heuretics with a varied set of connotators-eureka, heuristics, heretics, and, yes, diuretics--the word originated as a
theological term, as the flip-side or repressed Other of hermeneutics. One
could interpret scripture (read through a hermeneutic), or one could employ
scripture as a means of invention (read it heuretically). Hermeneutics asks,
What can be made of the Bible? Heuretics asks, What can be made from the
Bible? 1
As an experimental humanities, heuretics appropriates the history of the
avant-garde as a liberal arts mode of research and experimentation. (Ulmer,
1994, pg. 11)
The goal of heuretics is not only to reproduce historical inventions (to learn
about the vanguard or any other rhetoric/poetics from the inside, through
the experience of making works in those styles) but also to invent new
poetics. (Ulmer, 1994, pg. 12)
To point out that a given theory lacks a politics (as has been said of
deconstruction) or an aesthetics (as was said of Marxism) is not to refute
that theory but to call for an invention. Nor is just one politics or aesthetics
or pedagogy available in a theory but many, depending on who is doing the
inventing and within the practices of what institution. Theory is only one
ingredient in the formula of a cultural invention. (Ulmer, 1994, pg. 18)
All discourses on method, including this essay, share a common set of
elements. Ulmer identifies them as: