Temitope Ojedele

I’m Temitope Ojedele; most people call me Temi. Over the past year, I’ve been more conscious of being Nigerian, and projecting that. As a student with a literary background, I started my Ph.D. program with a totally different research interest that was more hinged on femininity. After my first year, however, my research concerns have evolved. I am more interested in institutionalization and transnational identity, and of course, feminism is part of that conversation too. I also believe this class is relevant to that discourse.

RIDE in a Nutshell: A Blog Content Review

The Rhetoric in Digital Environments (RIDE) blog has facilitated thoughtful discussions and critiques around rhetorical concepts in digital spaces over the course of this semester. A diverse range of topics have been covered across different categories. This entry is a review of all the categories that summarize the correlational critical contents that have been submitted…

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On the Metaphorization of Land and Conscious Digital Composing

While reading Arola’s essay and her preoccupation with digital design and cultural materiality, I recalled Liboiron’s Pollution is Colonialism and how she also uses the metaphor of “Land” to agitate for cultural sensitivity. The two scholars tend to metaphorize “Land” as a cultural symbol of both the material and immaterial, including humans whose identities are…

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Doing Bad All By Yourself: How to Live in Nothingness and Uselessness

Odell conceptualizes “nothingness” from different perspectives, including its antithesis to “busyness” in present times. She defines busyness as what Robert Louis Stevenson called a “symptom of deficient vitality” and “a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation.” (qtd. on pdf, p. 8)….

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