Electronic culture, starting with television and now continuing with the
Internet and the WWW, encourages the publication of the self, the making
public of secrets that identify one as a self. The "my" of Gregory
Ulmer's electronic genre "mystory" becomes lost in the desire to be
remembered: the "self" dissolves as it electronically publicizes its
secrets in an attempt to write its self into the cultural memory.
Hence the term "mnemography" to signal this phenomenon. Mnemography is
"memory-writing" at the level of the collective; it signals the blurred
boundary between one's own story and the story of one's culture.
