Swarts – Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks from Reusable Content
Swarts, Jason. “Recycled Writing: Assembling Actor Networks from Reusable Content.” JBTC (2010): 127-163. Abstract: Drawing on a study of writers reusing content from one document to another, this study examines the rhetorical purpose of reuse. Writing reuse is predominantly studied through the literature on single sourcing and enacted via technologies built on single-sourcing models. Such theoretical models and derivative technologies... Read More
Cooper – Being Linked to the Matrix: Biology, Technology, and Writing
Cooper, Marilyn. “Being Linked to the Matrix: Biology, Technology, and Writing.” eds. Selber, Stuart A. Rhetorics and Technologies : New Directions in Writing and Communication. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Variation: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. 15-32. C. begins by recounting how her early work in 1986 attempted to articulate a view of writing as social action or writing... Read More
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
Latour – Pursuing the Discussion of Interobjectivity With a Few Friends
Latour, Bruno. “Pursuing the Discussion of Interobjectivity With a Few Friends.” Mind, Culture and Activity 3 4 (1996): 266-269. Print. Latour confesses that his article on interobjectivity and it’s companion paper “On Technical Mediation” are efforts to create a Master Narrative on the common evolution of humans and non-humans (266). In his response, Latour highlights how his theory differs from Engstrom’s (and others) by drawing... Read More
Engestrom – Interobjectivity, Ideality, and Dialectics
Engestrom, Yrjo. “Interobjectivity, Ideality, and Dialectics.” Culture, Mind, and Activity. 3 4 (1996). 259-266. Print. E. begins by highlighting how Latour’s theory of interobjectivity is analogous to many tenants of CHAT. First, E. notes that Latour’s theory of object-directed action shares much with Leont’ev’s description of activity: “The expression of ‘objectless activity’ is devoid of any meaning’” (259). Goal... Read More
