"But this much remains correct: Modern Technology too is a means to an end. This is why the instrumental conception of technological conditions every attempt to bring man into the right relation to technology. Everything depends on our manipulating technology in the proper manner as a means. We will, as we say, 'get' technology 'intelligently in hand'. We will master it. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from our control."

~Martin Heidegger

A Review of Plugged In: Technology, Rhetoric and Culture
in a Posthuman Age

Reviewed by Steven K. Holmes, Clemson University

 

Plugged in

Edited by Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson

Hampton Press (2008)
ISBN-10: 1572738340
ISBN-13: 978-1572738348

All articles published previously in JAC: rhetoric, writing, culture, politics

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword, Cynthia Selfe.
Introduction, Lynn Worsham and Gary A. Olson.

CYBERBODIES IN A POSTHUMAN AGE
- Cybernetics, Ethos, and Ethics: The Plight of the Bread-and-Butter-Fly, Kristie S. Fleckenstein.
- Screening (In)Formation: Bodies and Writing in Network Culture, Jennifer L. Bay.
- Our Cyberbodies, Ourselves: Conceptual Grounds for Teaching Commodities to Write, Stanley D. Harrison.

RHETORIC AND TEACHING IN A DIGITAL AGE
- The Available Means of Persuasion: Mapping a Theory and Pedagogy of Multimodal Public Rhetoric, David M. Sheridan, Jim Ridolfo, and Anthony J. Michel.
- The Political Economy of Computers and Composition: "Democracy Hope" in the Era of Globalization, M.J. Braun.
- Circuitous Subjects in Their Time Maps, James J. Sosnoski and Ken S. McAllister.
- Toward a Rhetoric of Network (Media) Culture: Notes on Polarities and Potentiality, Bryon Hawk.

NETWORK CULTURE
- Grrrl Zine Networks: Re-Composing Spaces of Authority, Gender and Culture, Michelle Comstock.
- Cyber-Spaces of Grief: Online Memorials and the Columbine High School Shooting, Maya Socolovsky.
- Network Theory and Life on the Internet, John Johnston.

Contributors.
Index.