A Counter-history of Composition: Toward Methodologies of ComplexityA Counter-History of Composition contests the foundational disciplinary assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and concurrently dismissed as innate, intuitive, and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Counter to this, Byron Hawk identifies vitalism as the ground for producing rhetorical texts-the product of complex material relations rather than the product of chance. Through insightful historical analysis ranging from classical Greek rhetoric to contemporary complexity theory, Hawk defines three forms of vitalism (oppositional, investigative, and complex) and argues for their application in the environments where students write and think today. Hawk proposes that complex vitalism will prove a useful tool in formulating post-dialectical pedagogies, most notably in the context of emerging digital media. He relates two specific examples of applying complex vitalism in the classroom and calls for the reexamination and reinvention of current self-limiting pedagogies to incorporate vitalism and complexity theory. |
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... machine / human interface but also to examine their interrelationship as desiring - machines -assemblages of parts that produce desire , which generates movement and production . These machines are not objects to be used by a subject ...
... desiring - machines as what Deleuze and Guattari call a body without organs . This is a body but not a whole unity like a human body with internal organs . The subject , or any global effect of desiring - machines , has no connections ...
... machine as there are machines in the living ” ( Anti - Oedipus 286 ) . The difference for Deleuze and Guattari is not mechanical and vital but molar machines — social , technical , or organic — and molecular desiring - machines . Desiring - ...
Contents
Mapping Rhetoric and Composition | 12 |
Cartography and Forgetting | 49 |
Remapping Method | 86 |
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