CCR760 – Spilka et.al.

Digital Literacy for Technical Communication:  21st Century Theory and Practice – ed. Rachel Spilka Introduction – Rachel Spilka The author notes that the collection is valuable because work contexts and modes of production have changes so much over recent memory.  As technical communicators, Spilka notes that the need to adopt evolution is necessary to survive. Evolution not only in technical skill, but productive flow and socializing forces... Read More

CCR601 – R&P 42.3

Bayer, Thora I. “Hegelian Rhetoric.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 42.3 (2009): 203-19. Print Rhetoric is an antistrophe to dialectic (antistrophe is the “turning back” of the chorous on the audience in the traditional ancient Greek play). Kant considered dialectic the “logic of illusion” that occurs when reason takes its powers beyond experience to make claims concerning the nature of the soul, world, and God (203). Kant is responsible... Read More

CCR601 – Genealogy – 1st Generation

Rickert, Thomas. “In the House of Doing:  Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience.” JAC 24 (2004): 901-927. Executive Summary: Rickert begins this article by discussing how Foucault and Barthes both challenged the existence of the autonomous author.  From the author, he moves on to writing.  Like the author, writing is spectral in the sense that it embodies the thoughts, writing, images, events, feelings of others as it comes from the author. ... Read More