In a scene from The Deerhunter (1978), a disillusioned “Nick,” played by Christopher Walken, steps onto the veranda of the hospital where he was convalescing alongside other Vietnam War soldiers. He absorbs a scene of uniformity-in-death: countless metal coffins are being stacked so that the bodies of the dead could be returned home. Nick then…
Over the last four decades, Hip Hop has expanded its influence across various demographics, employing principles akin to those found in technical and professional communication, which can be likened to user-localization of digital and communicative technologies. In “Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America”, Tricia Rose(1994), primarily asserts the enriching an intriguing…
The concept of smart homes as modern panopticons and surveillance mechanisms is a thought-provoking perspective that raises concerns about the privacy and security implications of connected technologies within our living spaces. Han(2022) says that Google presents the interconnected smart home of the future as an “electric orchestra” with the resident as a “conductor” (5). I…
– In Computer and Composition, technofeminism has emerged to critique the historical domination of male figures in the domain of digital spaces, technology and culture, which were inherently biased against women. The hegemonic designs and definitions of technology often limit women as eternal outsiders in that very realm and perpetuate harmful stereotypes as technologically challenged/inferior…
Prior to my experiences in the US over the past year, I had never given much thought to my positionality within the Black identity space. I was an avid movie watcher growing up, and I’ve always felt a connection to or alliance with the Black characters in the western films and books I’ve watched and…
I don’t think I have ever thought of the DJ as a rhetor, and here is Banks simply blasting it all over my face; it is indeed amazing, and I am grateful for this reading and would like to own this text. One “mundane fact” I shared in my practicum class is that I used…
In contrast to Manovich and Folsom’s theorization of the database as counter-narrative and an autonomous entity, I completely concur with Hayles’s theory that the two are symbionts. Based on Mieke Bal’s elements of narration, which include actor, narrator, text, story, and fabula (p. 1606), I contend that narrative makes up for database’s shortcomings since the…
Although I haven’t read any of Ed Folsom’s other works and I believe he has contributed significantly to other scholarly discussions, I can’t help but wonder if he, like the theorist Lev Manovich who influenced him, is still adamant about his assertion of the autonomy of databases or if he would prefer to rethink his…