Latour – On Interobjectivity

Latour, Bruno.  “On Interobjectivity.”  Mind, Culture, and Activity 3 4 (1996).  228-245.  Print. Latour echoes the questions that come to the fore at the beginning of Reassembling the Social early on this piece: namely, how do we understand society?  Is it determined by a superstructure or does it only occur through interactions between two participants?  Is there a middle ground?  When we observe interaction are we merely observing the... Read More

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity Hawk claims that compositionists consider the term vitalism as an “anything goes” approach to writing and thinking, as an “ahistorical category that subsumes multiple divergent practices, and as an assumed negative counterpart to preferred rhetorical practices that establishes a binary between rhetoric and poetics” (3). ... Read More

CCR691 – Ethnography Ch. 2 Horner – For Comment

Horner, Bruce. “Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work:  Rearticulating Labor.” Ethnography Unbound:  From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen Gilbert Brown. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004. 13-34. Main Claims/Executive Summary In this chapter Horner advances the argument that critical ethnography’s approach to collaboration, multivocality, and self-reflexivity have been steps in the right direction to distance ethnography from... Read More