WRT624 – Brooke – Lingua Fracta Ch. 4

Collin Brooke.  Lingua Fracta:  Towards a Rhetoric of New Media – Chapter 4 “Pattern” This chapter takes up the field of arrangement in rhetoric and composition studies in relation to new media.  Brooke begins the chapter noting how early hypertext theory heralded the death of arrangement on the part of the author as the reader/consumer of the text now determined (thorugh the process of choosing links/electronic paths) the format that the text would take.  This is certainly... Read More

WRT624 – Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Ch. 2

Collin Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Chapter 2: Ecology This chapter is the theoretical framing for Brooke’s book.  In this section Brooke outlines rhetoric and composition’s relationship with the five cannons of rhetoric.  He also references multiple thinkers who have taken up the rhetorical cannons in the recent past.  Finally, he reconceived of the classical triumvirate to provide a new conceptual/theoretical program based in ecologies as a way to situate the cannons. ... Read More

Brooke – Lingua Fracta – Ch. 1 “Interface”

Lingua Fracta:  Towards a Rhetoric of New Media Collin Gifford Brooke Chapter One:  Interface Wow.  A lot of stuff in this chapter.  I’ll be brief, but I don’t want to miss much! Brooke begins by sketching how an electronic essay entitled “Hypertext is Dead,” published in Kairos acted as not only a single text object, but also as something more – a new media text. A main claim of Brooke’s work:  “I believe that, as teachers and students... Read More

WRT627 – Wikinomics & Lingua Fracta (Ch. 3)

Lingua Fracta:  Towards a Rhetoric of New Media Collin Gifford Brooke Chapter Three:  Proairesis In this chapter Brooke hopes to demonstrate what he calls “proairetic invention” or “a focus on the generation of possibilities, rather than their elimination until all but one are gone and closure is achieved” (86). Brooke recognizes the tension between social models of invention in rhetoric and composition and the conception of the solitary author romanticized by literary... Read More

WRT624 – Logie – The (Re)Birth of the Composer

Logie – “The (Re)Birth of the Composer” from Composition and Copyright Logie notes that composition is the antitheological activity par excellance because it dissolves the author into an accumulation of public ideas, interpretations and claims (176).  In this sense, composition challenges God “and his hypostases – reason, science, law.” “Classic [humanist] criticism has obscured the networked composer in order to celebrate the Author: for that criticism, there... Read More