Beyond Postprocess

by Dobrin, Sidney I.; Rice, J. a.; Vastola, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780874218312
• ISBN10: 0874218314
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Utah State Univ Pr

Summary

Beyond Postprocessoffers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, each contribution to this collection provides a unique and important example of what work beyond postprocess could be. Since postprocess theory in writing studies first challenged traditional conceptions of writing and the subject who writes, developments there have continued to push theorists of writing in a number of promising theoretical directions. Spaces for writing have arisen that radically alter ideological notions of space, rational thinking, intellectual property and politics, and epistemologies; and new media, digital, and visual rhetorics have increasingly complicated the scene, as well. Contributors to Beyond Postprocessreconsider writing and writing studies through posthumanism, ecology, new media, materiality, multimodal and digital writing, institutional critique, and postpedagogy. Through the lively and provocative character of these essays, Beyond Postprocess aims to provide a critical site for nothing less than the broad reevaluation of what it means to study writing today. Its polyvocal considerations and conclusions invest the volume with a unique potential to describe not what that field of study should be, but what it has the capacity to create. The central purpose of Beyond Postprocessis to unleash this creative potential.

Table of Contents

Preface: Righting Writing	p. xi
Introduction: A New Postprocess Manifesto: A Plea for Writing	p. 1
Interventions of Postprocess
Writing and Accountability	p. 21
What Constitutes a Good Story? Narrative Knowledge in Process, Postprocess, and Post-Postprocess Composition Research	p. 41
Putting Process into Circulation: Textual Cosmopolitanism	p. 61
Reassembling Postprocess: Toward a Posthuman Theory of Public Rhetoric	p. 75
The Page as a Unit of Discourse: Notes toward a Counterhistory for Writing Studies	p. 94
Postprocess in New Media
Folksonomic Narratives: Writing Detroit	p. 117
Old Questions, New Media: Theorizing Writing in a Digital Age	p. 132
Postconflict Pedagogy: Writing in the Stream of Hearing	p. 145
Being Delicious: Materialities of Research in a Web 2.0 Application	p. 163
Postprocess and Post(?)Pedagogy
First, A Word	p. 183
The Salon of 2010	p. 195
Postpedagogical Reflections on Plagiarism and Capital	p. 219
Index	p. 232
Contributors	p. 236
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