CTW Response: Clemens/Nash and Rizzo
“Since the very concept of media by definition presumes that there are media, plural (for example, differentiated media), and since the digital converges all media into a single state (that is to say digital data), then by definition the concept of media simply disappears. In other words, data is the Great Leveler” (Clemens and Nash). […]
read more“Television Assemblages” by Teresa Rizzo Annotations
My annotations for Teresa Rizzo’s article, “Television Assemblages” can be found on Hypothes.is.
read more“Being and Media: Digital Ontology” by Justin Clemons and Adam Nash Annotations
My annotations for Justin Clemons and Adam Nash’s article “Being and Media: Digital Ontology After the Event of the End of Media” can be found on Hypothes.is.
read moreCritical Thinking Through Writing 2
“Assemblage theory . . . emphasizes fluidity, exchangeability, and multiple functionalities. Assemblages appear to be functioning as a whole, but are actually coherent bits of a system whose components can be ‘yanked’ out of one system, ‘plugged’ into another, and still work” –“Assemblage Theory,” University of Texas ________________________________________________________ The pieces of the pie. The parts […]
read moreThe Effects of Disability and Gender in Rhetoric
“Inspiration Porn Further Disables the Disabled” by David M. Perry is an opinion piece about the objectification of people among… read more
read moreCTW Response: Plato and Hunter
“The nonverbal is typically poised as an extension of hearing culture rather than a fundamental expression of an embodied human experience, capable of infinite articulation” (Hunter). In Plato’s Phaedrus, the audience is entertained with colorful dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus. Phaedrus reads Lysias’ speech on the downfalls of men in love, which prompts the two men to enter… Continue Reading CTW Response: Plato and Hunter
read moreCTW #1 Derrida in Conversation with Plato: How Do New Writing Technologies Change Our Understanding of Rhetoric?
read moreENGL 4320: CTW Response 1 – “Feminist Rhetoric in the Digital Sphere” & The Ferguson Syllabus
The two pieces discussed in this response highlight ways in which social media and the digital realm can be harnessed as tools to push back against oppressive power structures. Through two different modes of digital text, they demonstrate the power that technology has in giving voices to those who are routinely silenced. The first of […]
read moreResponse 1: Derrida and Hunter
Derrida’s selection entitled “Plato’s Pharmacy” and Hunter’s essay, “The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies”, have a conversation with each other across time. The first author pointedly discusses Plato’s Phaedrus, analyzing and adding musings to the… Continue Reading →
read moreCritical Thinking through Writing Essay
Written centuries apart, one would not automatically connect Plato’s Phaedrus with Liz Lane’s “Feminist Rhetoric in the Digital Sphere: Digital Interventions & the Subversion of Gendered Cultural Scripts.” However far apart they appear in subject, time, and space, they do contain some similar qualities worth noting. Essential to each piece is the definition of rhetoric […]
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