Rewind the tape, cup an ear, settle in: RIDE blog carnival #2 mixes with repair and context collapse, community and corporeality, storying and rhetoric’s reconstitutive capacity, and more: nine distinctive yet generatively syncopated entries. Due to longer lines at the ferris wheel ticket window and kettle corn stand, carnival #1 yielded more time for composing a proper intro summa carne levare-style; with this set—and what a set it is!—the rewind adopts a variation on the Four Word Film Review #fwfr microgenre, which we rewired on Sept. 18 as Four Word Funk Review #fwfr, a shoftform, metonymic beat resonant with the greater entirety. Here is the call that set this in motion.
To the nine entries, then, in inverse order of their posting:
- “Recovering Rhetoric’s Resilience” by André Jones
Can rhetoric leap back? #fwfr - “Beyond the Looking Glass of ‘Likes’: What a Move to the Country Taught Me About Context Collapse and Relational Repair” by Jenna Zan
Ecological anchorage, neighborliness embers. #fwfr - “A Rhetorician’s Reflection on Repair” by Patrick Greene
Teaching/learning to maintain. #fwfr - “Rhizomatic and Repetitive—Odell and Communities” by Julia Unger
Shared causes define communities. #fwfr - “Unveiling Multiplicities of Care and Community Support and its parallel with rhetorical ecologies” by Gideon Kwawukumey
Reconsidering corporeality’s constitutive force. #fwfr - “Kintsugi Repair: Imperfections are Beautiful” by Shajiya Nath
Glints of former fractures. #fwfr - “Storying Repair as Rhetorical Acts of Survivance” by Temitope Ojedele
Recontextualizing repair, the storytold. #fwfr - “The Truman Show Embedded in our Reality of Smart Homes: Will We Be Held Captive Like Truman Burbanks?” By Shuvro Das
On auto-exploitative smart domiciles. #fwfr - “One-Days: A Meditation on Rot and Reparative Care” by Molly Ryan
Lumens of deep repair. #fwfr
Humbling and rewarding to lead a class that lends itself collectively to this, that makes these questions and these responses possible. Comments are open, welcomed.
