Category: English 467: Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
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Culture, technology, and globalization
According to Thatcher, there are four levels of cultural and rhetorical patterns that determine how a new technology will be assimilated into a culture. These include the broader cultural context, the local/regional context, the specific organizational culture, and the personalities of those within the organization (385). I like this framework…
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Progress, technology, and culture
Slack and Wise tell us “culture is a site of struggle and has a role in both reproducing inequality and challenging it” (2). So, how do we use technology—a part of our culture—to challenge, rather than reproduce, inequality? As evidenced by the way we have used the power of naming…
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Race and justice
“Yet we continue to use the term ‘race,’ even though many of us are very careful to set it off in quotation marks to indicate that while we do not take seriously the notion of ‘race’ as biologically grounded, neither are we able to think about racist power structures and…
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On David Spurr’s “The Rhetoric of Empire”
“The nomination of the visible is no idle metaphysic, no disinterested revealing of the world’s wonders. It is, on the contrary, a mode of thinking and writing wherein the world is radically transformed into an object of possession.” (Spurr 27) Picking up where I left off in my last post,…
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Presidents and chimps
I’ve enrolled in a course called “Race, Rhetoric and Technology” this semester, and our very first course reading really got me thinking. (A good sign!) It was an article on race in America by Victor Villanueva. Although I certainly didn’t agree with everything in the article (especially the notion of…
Erin Anne Clark 