Brooke – Forgetting to be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age
Brooke, Collin Gifford. “Forgetting to be (Post)Human: Media and Memory in a Kairotic Age.” JAC 20 4 (2000). 775-95. Print. Brooke begins the article by pointing out how postmodernism has eroded the hermeneutic depth of the modern episteme at the expense of passionate attachment; in other words, now that the unified, universal modernist subject is dead postmodernism offered nothing in its place. . . just a space of critique (775). Brooke... Read More
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
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... 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... 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
