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... Read More

CCR601 – Lingua Fracta, Chapter 4

Brooke, Collin. Lingua Fracta:  Toward a Rhetoric of New Media. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2009. Chapter Four Executive Summary: In this chapter, Brooke goes over a lot of the same territory he covered in Making Room, Writing Hypertext. Here he recaps such issues as containerism, spatial practice (Lefebvre’s perceived space), and the situation of arrangement in contemporary hypertextual scholarship.  Yet, after rehashing and revising his thesis,... Read More

CCR601 – Making Room, Writing Space

Brooke, Collin. “Making Room, Writing Hypertext.” JAC 19.2 (1999): 253-268. Executive Summary: In this piece, Brooke works to reclaim arrangement from hypertext theorists that have elided the term in due to the “non-linearity” of hypertextual production.  In this reclamation, Brooke employs both a time-element and a space-element to better understand the way hypertext can be arranged.   The time-element is a hold-over from... Read More