Ulmer – Heuretics: The Logic of Invention (selections)

Ulmer, Gregory L. Heuretics : The Logic of Invention. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Print Preface U. notes that Heuretics is an ongoing (at this time 2 decades long) project of “applying to academic discourse the lessons arising out of a matrix crossing French postructuralist theory, avant-garde experiments, and electronic media” in the context of education (xi).  He’s theorized/practiced this work as a means... Read More

Carnegie – Interface as Exordium: The Rhetoric of Interactivity

Carnegie, Teena A. M. “Interface as Exordium: The Rhetoric of Interactivity.” Computers and Composition 26 3 (2009): 164-73. Print. Abstract: In this article, I outline how the interface of new media functions rhetorically as an exordium to engage users and to dispose them to persuasion. The modular, networked, and interactive nature of new media requires an interface: a central place of interaction for the technological, human, social,... 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,... Read More

CCR760 – Datacloud – My Indictment: Dug the Book, What About that Broader Context?

I found this text to be interesting and a bit disconnected.  I think that J.E. is grappling with similar themes that have been brought up by other theorists in the past couple of years; most notably, I see the work of articulation as a response to complexity and the multiple enacted subjectivities of the postmodern object.  J.E. says as much in his book; however, I think had he worked closer with some Actor-Network theorists like John Law and Bruno... Read More

CCR691 – Final Project – Johnson-Eilola

Johnson-Eilola, J. “Living on the Surface:  Learning in the Age of Global Communication Networks.” Page to Screen:  Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era. Ed. Snyder, Ilana. London: Routledge, 1998. 185-210. Print. In this piece, J.E. makes the argument that we are living in an age of the “surface” or of ahistorical existence.  This makes the older folks (the essay is from 98) uncomfortable because the surface... Read More