New media

Publications

Wunderkammer, Cornell, & the Visual Canon of Arrangement <2009> Designing constructive digital media is a process of mapping and remapping our physical and conceptual worlds in order to determine their meaning. When readers become composers, when users become designers, they may construct for themselves both a digital Wunderkammer of evidence and the potential associative connections available through arrangement and manipulation of that evidence. This project, published in Kairos in January 2009, discusses these issues and translates them into praxis.  When Revision Is Redesign: Key Questions for Digital Scholarship <2009> A webtext which explores the complexity of radical redesign in new media, focusing in particular on design as both element and enactment of my interactive digital argument.   Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World <2011> A born-digital "book" project that considers the theoretical and pedagogical implications of designing academic scholarship in interactive digital media, and proposes renewed emphasis on embodied visual rhetoric and on the canon of arrangement as an active visual practice. This project uses the concept of the Wunderkammer to argue for techné and wonder as guiding principles for a revitalized visual canon of arrangement and as new models of invention and intervention in multimodal scholarly production.

Selected media

from Chapter 2, Technologies of Wonder <2011> ...the body is also fluid, a multiplicity of subjectivities (“Ain’t I a woman?”), one or more of which may be active or called into question at a specific time and place. No one, for example, is exclusively “a professional” or “a father” or “an Asian”; and no one has the ethical right to impose fixed identity categories on other individuals or groups and then speak to them or for them as if they were One. This multiplicity leads Haraway to argue for “situated knowledges” that recognize the partial perspective of allubject positions; and de Lauretis (1989) to call for a new “subject of feminism” who negotiates s among potential subject positions both within and without the dominant patriarchal positioning. (55)

Video from presentation at Computers & Writing, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2011.