As promised yon, RIDE Blog Carnival #3 is an open event. Here is what we agreed to some months ago: Carnival #3 will work a bit differently in that it will invite a wider set of possibilities. Whereas Carnival #1 and Carnival #2 will be guided by a set of questions, or a theme, Carnival…
A student recently accused me of not replying to “any” of her emails, when I had only not responded to a singular one that I had addressed in another email. This is just an itsy bitsy of all the entitlements that come with technological consensus. It’s my email (or any messaging app), yes, but the…
‘How to do Nothing’ promotes ‘deep listening’ as a rhetorical tool in resisting issues we are currently facing- unjust economic conditions, poor remuneration of workers, and fighting environmental problems. Stakeholders need to develop a ‘deep listening’ to the unjust systemic working conditions of employees in academic institutions. Drawing from Odell (2017), “When every moment is…
It’s October of 2018. I’m moving to the rural fringes of my college town, and I’m anxious. I brace myself for lawns adorned with confederate flags and Trump memorabilia. I have imaginary dialogues with bible-thumping, gun-toting neighbors who would likely peg me, at first glimpse, as a liberal “snowflake.” I feel as though I’m venturing…
I’m drawn to Jennifer Clary-Lemon’s new materials environmental rhetoric for many reasons, one of which involves her call for us to “listen better” to the troubled/troubling ways we dwell amidst—and are implicated within—environmental change and destruction. I think of “listening better” as a valuable extension of “deep listening,” as both approaches to sensed/sensing dwelling provoke…
The other day I was watching video essays on YouTube as I far too often do and I came across a video on the channel Wisecrack called “Algorithms and the Death of Hollywood.” Within the video, Michael Burns notes a malady that has emerged within the entertainment industry and digital media. He argues, particularly of…
Power centers want the people in the margin to unquestionably follow the rules they had set. Noncompliance has no space in the process of profit-making. Therefore, in a capitalist culture of productivism, refusing to produce (what the system demands) is an act of resistance. However, refusal is deeply connected to the activist’s background, social status,…
Hayles’ article was written before the arrival of Generation Alpha, children born into and existing in an age where hyper-attention is at its peak. I would really love to see an article that continues that conversation. I am a mom of two Alphas, and Lord help me with the daily policies and struggles with technology….
Han (2022) says that analogue photographs are things because we take great care in keeping them safe. Sure, analogue, printed photos of a Kodak camera are probably kept in an album. As did my mom. She used to have a polaroid camera and it produced a couple of hundreds of “still” photos. I can see…
Han (2022), in ‘Hyperculture,’ takes a deep stance on how cultures will cease to exist in the future. His argument suggests that culture is always in location, but there will be a time we are going to be called tourists. Han (2022) asks if we are, how might we describe this new culture? This question…
In Byung-Chul Han’s “Hypertext and Hyperculture,” he ends with the idea that “Re-theologization, re-mythologization, and re-nationalization are common reactions to the hyperculturalization of the world” (10). There is a suggestion that the hyperculturalization of the world will lead to a type of fundamentalism. Considering this was originally published in German in 2005, I feel it…