Rhetorical Distributions
Image Credit:Â Complex Network by yobink During the past year and a half, Dale Smith and I have been working on a project entitled “Rhetorical Distributions: The …
27 Mar
Gorgias’s Paignion
Gorgias’s Paignion
Image Credit: “Procedural Art” by hyfen This is a presentation I delivered at last week’s Conference on College Composition and Communication. It was part of a …
28 Feb
Back and forth on the see saw
Back and forth on the see saw
Image Credit: “Seesaw” by nzgabriel Michael Faris has kicked off a CCCarnival in which he invites bloggers to respond to Geoffrey Sirc’s recent review essay, “Resisting …
12 Sep
The Decorum of Objects
The Decorum of Objects
Image credit: “Putney Oscillator” by peff I’ll be attending the University of South Carolina Conference on Rhetorical Theory in mid-October. This is a unique conference for a couple of …
01 Jul
Exploits, Ethics, and the ‘Little Old Lady’ Problem
Exploits, Ethics, and the ‘Little Old Lady’ Problem
Image credit: “2 old ladies on a bench” by lamazone Last week, I attended the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The Institute …
22 Mar
Care and Caution: Rhetoric, Mashed Up
Care and Caution: Rhetoric, Mashed Up
Image credit: “Girl Talk” by reallyboring In my “New Media and the Futures of Writing” course, students are currently “mashing up” rhetorical theories. This class has …
15 Jan
The Procedural Rhetorics of the Obama Campaign
The Procedural Rhetorics of the Obama Campaign
At the recent MLA conference, I was part of a panel called “Close Reading the Digital” with Jeremy Douglass, Mark Sample, Mark Marino, and Matt …
17 Nov
Bildung and Building: Hacking (and) the Foreign Language Requirement
Bildung and Building: Hacking (and) the Foreign Language Requirement
Image Credit: “Hacker” by altemark Recently, I suggested that the Department of English at Wayne State University consider allowing graduate students to use a computer language …
06 Oct
Responsible…Responsive
Responsible…Responsive
Photo Credit: “Doug Engelbart Demo 1968” by mac steve In a graduate seminar I’m teaching, last week’s reading was an exchange between Steve Mailloux and Diane …
25 Aug
Spam and the Rhetoric of Objects
Spam and the Rhetoric of Objects
Photo Credit: Screenshot of Daniel Tankersley’s “The Forest” What would an object-oriented rhetoric look like?  This question is being asked by a number of scholars, and …