When I think of how often I repair things today as a student of rhetoric, the most recent thing I can think of is replacing a battery in a key fob. Replacing a battery is a relatively simple endeavor, but considering that until the beginning of this very month, I hadn’t owned a key fob…
When the market economy is always advertising its newest advanced technologies as something essential for your living, even if you had a fully functional device that you were satisfied with the day before the ad came up, what you feel for the new one is not a desire but a need. Consumerism takes away one’s…
In answering the question on the last thing I repaired, I hope also to be able to configure the different kinds of metaphorical repair that play out in the readings of Odell (2019), Jackson (2014), Han (2022), Hayles (2007), and Rivers (2020). To achieve this, I hope to analyze and story repair as a rhetoric…