Yearly Archives: 2008
Warnick, Welch, and Zappen on Electronic Rhetoric
Again, I read a number of articles (cited below) and was posed relating questions: Warnick, Barbara. 2005. “Looking to the Future: Electronic Texts and the Deepening Interface.” Technical Communication Quarterly 14(3), 327-333. Welch, Kathleen. 1999. “Technologies of Electric Rhetoric.” Electric Rhetoric. Cambridge: MIT Press. Zappen, James P. “Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory.” Technical Communication…
McLuhan and Postman on New Media Criticism
McLuhan, Marshall. 2003 (orig. 1962 & 1964). “Two Selections by Marshall McLuhan.” In The New Media Reader. Cambridge: MIT Press. Postman, Neil. 1992. “Invisible Technologies.” Technopoly. New York: Vintage Books. After reading these noted articles, I had the following two questions posed:
Ong and Heim on Digital Literacy & Transformation Theory
Heim, Michael. 1999 (orig. 1987). “The Theory of Transformative Technologies.” Electric Language, 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Ong, Walter. 1982. “Some Theorems.” Orality and Literacy. New York: Routledge. Here are a couple articles/chapters and the questions I was asked related to them:
Foucault and Feenberg on Truth and Technology
A few weeks ago, I read the following pieces from Feenberg and Foucault. Feenberg, Andrew. 2002. “The Critical Theory of Technology.” Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Foucault, Michel. 1984. “Truth and Power” & “What Is an Author?” The Foucault Reader. Ed. Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books. Following this reading,…
Derrida – On the Demise of Language Through Writing (Part 2)
Last week, I had three questions posed on recent readings of Derrida. Here are the questions and my responses. While Birkerts lays out a clear demarcation between electronic and print writing, Derrida writes in the pre-Internet era. If you were to hypothesize how Derrida would treat the relationship between print and electronic “text,” what would…
Derrida – On the Demise of Language Through Writing
Birkerts, Sven. 1994. “Into the Electronic Millennium.” & “Hypertext of Mouse and Man.” The Gutenberg Elegies. New York: Ballentine Books. URL: http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdbirk.htm Derrida, Jacques. 1976. “The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing.” Of Grammatology. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP. While the Derrida peice was mighty dense, it was manageable; and both works…