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Kairos Manifesto Issue

20 Tuesday May 2008

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Via Kairos:

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and  Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 12.3, our special issue for Summer 2008 with Guest Editors Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl E. Ball. This is the Manifesto Issue: “[w]rought with connotation, politically and emotionally charged, manifestos call us to action and demand change—in the streets, in the workplace, in our classrooms, in our minds, and in the virtual spaces we inhabit. […] The manifesto’s typical dense state and its sometimes confrontational approach make it easily susceptible to critique yet can quickly facilitate invention for new scholarly conversations and directions.”

New Journal: Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary

16 Friday May 2008

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Via In the Middle, I see there’s a new journal dedicated to the theory and practice of commentary: Glossator.

Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims to encourage the practice of commentary as a creative form of intellectual work and to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the past, present, and future of this ancient genre of writing. By aligning itself, not with any particular discipline, but with a particular mode of production, Glossator gives expression to the fact that praxis founds theory. [Learn more.]

Cool in and of itself, I’m intrigued by the the list of suggested submission material:

Possible submissions include: critical, philological, and/or bibliographic commentaries on texts, art, music, events, and other kinds of objects. Editions and translations of commentaries, glosses, annotation, and marginalia. Historical, theoretical, and/or critical articles and essays on commentary and commentary traditions. Experimental and/or fictional commentaries.

While I’ve got plenty of interest in glossing and commentaries from my medievalist and Ong Collection work, there’s a whole new set of practices to explore and theorize: blogs, tools like CommentPress, social tagging and folksonomy, YouTube video responses, mashups…

And this reminds me, I’ve been meaning to talk about the FYC course I’m planning to teach at Creighton next fall. Creighton’s FYC courses are themed, and central to the course is going to be McLuhan’s <em>The Medium is the Massage</em>. (Yes, I know, I’m getting too much mileage out of this book.) One of the uses of the book will be to introduce research, commentary, and annotation. I’m planning on having students photocopy passage from the book, mount them on posterboards, and comment, gloss, annotate, and respond using original text, quotes, images, drawings, and whatever else comes to mind. The goal is to extend McLuhan’s performance of electronic writing via print by taking it one step backward into manuscript culture. I don’t want to force anyone into working with a passage they don’t want to work with, but if we’re lucky, I might be able to convince the class to cover the whole book.

CFP: Technoculture, Vol. 1, 2009

04 Sunday May 2008

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From the CFP for the first issue of Technoculture: A Journal for Cultural Studies of Technology, a new journal edited by Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly:

For the first issue of a new journal, Technoculture, we seek papers from a broad range of academic disciplines that focus on issues that could be briefly summed as “technology and society,” or, perhaps, “technologies and societies.” Technoculture is an online refereed scholarly journal, published annually, which will include online forums for sections of the journal such as letters to the editor, and for each article or review published, making Technoculture a highly interactive journal with the ability for readers to comment on each section. In addition, we will provide fora for announcements of interest to academics who study technology and its impact on society; and job announcements in this growing field. (For those who would like to see this in action, we have a mockup of the site available). [Read more.]

I hope this journal takes off in a big way, and I should think about sending something their way. If not something on memory (the canon of memory is, after all, the technologizing of memory), then something on Ong (or more broadly orality-literacy studies), or something on science fiction. What I particularly like is how Keith and Kevin define technoculture, which Keith first told me about when he and Kevin sent out the call for their technoculture special issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities. In the Technoculture CFP they write:

In particular, we’re interested in a conception of “technology” and the “humanist impulse” that pushes beyond contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek papers that deal with any technology or technologies in any historical period from any relevant theoretical perspective. We are not interested in “how to” pedagogical papers that deal with the use of technology in the classroom. Style should be jargon free and accessible to a general audience as well as to scholars in a number of disciplines.

SEMA’s 34th Annual Meeting in Saint Louis

28 Thursday Feb 2008

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The 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association will be held this year at Saint Louis University, 2-5 October 2008. The conference is co-hosted by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Saint Louis University, and the BABEL Working Group. Eileen Joy (SIUE) is organizing and Jeffery Jerome Cohen (George Washington University) is a plenary speaker, both of whom are members of the medieval studies group blog In the Middle.

Read the CFP.

CCCC Computer Connection Schedule Available

02 Friday Mar 2007

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From Doug Eyman, Computer Connection coordinator:

The CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication is pleased to announce that the schedule for the 2007 CCCC Computer Connection presentations has been finalized, and we hope that you will consider attending sessions that interest you. The Computer Connection presentations will be held in the Exhibit Hall at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in NYC March 22-24.

Sponsored by the CCCC Committee on Computers and Composition, the CCCC Computer Connection offers presentations on new software and technologies for teaching composition and literature, computer-facilitated classroom practices, best practices for teaching online, new technology resources, and electronic journals. Information about current and past presentations is available at http://computersandwriting.org/cc/ and will be posted in the Exhibit Hall at the conference. The CC presentations run 25 minutes each, so you can attend them individually or as full concurrent sessions.

This year, we have sessions on audience-response technology, open-source writing tools, visual rhetoric, online/video games and writing instruction, blogs, podcasting, social networking, digital research, usability testing, and electronic portfolios (and many others!).

A longer version program that you can print out and bring with you to the conference is also available at http://computersandwriting.org/cc/