Bhabha – The Location of Culture (selections)
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. London: New York, 1994. Print. (Only covering introduction, importance of theory, and mimicry/hybridity) Introduction: Locations of Culture In this introduction B. sketches the move from Modernism meta-narratives of “class” or “gender” toward the individual subject positions of the “post” era: individuations of race, gender, generation, geopolitical locale, sexual orientation,... Read More
Muckelbauer & Hawhee – Posthuman Rhetorics: ‘It’s the Future, Pikul.’
Muckelbauer, John and Debra Hawhee. “Posthuman Rhetorics: ‘It’s the Future, Pikul.” JAC 20 4 (2000): 767-74. Print. M&H begins by recalling how Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ confronts anxieties about the nature of a distributed self rather than a Modernist universal, complete, whole “I.” The film provides the authors with a way to conceptualize the work of posthuman: “we begin by considering posthumanism... 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
Corbett – The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist
Corbett – The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist Introduction: 1. Definitions: i. Closed fist – symbolized the tight, spare, compressed discourse of the philosopher. In the contemporary condition, the closed fist “might signify the kind of persuasive activity that seeks to carry its point by non-rationale, non-sequential, often non-verbal, frequently provocative means. ii. Open hand –... Read More
Satterfield and Antczak – American Pragmatism and the Public Intellectual
Satterfield, Jay, and Frederick J. Antczak. “American Pragmatism and the Public Intellectual: Poetry, Prophecy, and the Process of Invention in Democracy.” Atwill, Janet, and Janice M. Lauer. Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. 1st ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Print. The authors find that pragmatic theories of invention (and pragamatism in general) offers an answer to the problem of postmodern theories of subjectivity/invention:... Read More
