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

Genealogy – 3rd Generation – Hawee – Miller

Genealogy Project 3rd Generation – 2nd Generation Author: Hawhee Miller, Carolyn. “Opportunity, Opportunism, and Progress: Kairos in the Rhetoric of Technology.” Argumentation 8.1 (1994): 81-96. Print. Executive Summary: Miller claims that kairos serves “as both a powerful theme within technological discourse and as an analytical concept that explains some of the suasory force by which such discourse maintains itself and its position... Read More

CCR601 – Genealogy – 2nd – Hawhee

Genealogy Project 2nd Generation 1.  Hawhee, Debra.  “Kairotic Encounters.”  Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention.  Ed. Janet M. Atwill and Janice M. Lauer.  Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2001.  16-35. Executive Summary: Hawhee begins her article by discussing how invention is conceived in either exterior or interior terms.  That is, invention happens when the rhetor either: a)finds things that exist in a preexistent rhetorical order or... Read More