Full Description
This collection, aimed at scholars, teachers, and practitioners in technical communication, focuses on the praxis-based connections between technical communication and theoretical movements that have emerged in the past several decades, namely new materialism and posthumanism. It provides a much needed link between contemporary theoretical discussions about new materialisms and posthumanism and the practical, everyday work of technical communicators. The collection insists that where some theoretical perspectives fall flat for practitioners, posthumanism and new materialisms have the potential to enable more effective and comprehensive practices, methodologies, and pedagogies.
Contents
Foreword
(Carl G. Herndl)
Introduction
(Kristen R. Moore and Daniel P. Richards)
Part I: Shifting Politics and Histories
1. Storytelling as a Balancing Practice in the Study of Posthuman Praxis
(Emily Legg & Patricia Sullivan)
2. Secret/Agent
(Julie Staggers and Michele Simmons)
3. Other-Oriented Rhetoric as Posthuman Witnessing of Wangari Maathai's Arboreal Networks
(Andrew Mara)
4. Factors to Actors: Implications of Posthumanism for Social Justice Work
(Emma J. Rose and Rebecca Walton)
Part II: Shifting Methodologies
5. Can Objects be Moral Agents? Posthuman Praxis in Public Transportation
(Meredith A. Johnson and Nathan R. Johnson)
6. Writing Down the Machine: Enacting Latourian Ethnography to Trace How a Supercomputer Circulates the Halls of Washington, DC as a Report
(Sarah Read)
7. Nonhuman Agency and Constitutive Intertwining in Military Accident Reports
(Victoria Sadler
8. User Experience in a Networked Environment: How Latour Can Help Us Do Better UX Work
(Guiseppe Getto, Nathan A. Franklin, Sheryl M. Ruszkiewicz, and Jack T. Labriola
Part III: Shifting Workspaces
9. The Role of Metis in Revising Automotive Recall Letters
(Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder)
10. Objects of O2: A Posthuman Analysis of Differentiated Language Use in a Cross-Disciplinary Research Partnership
Mark A. Hannah)
11. Beyond Hearts and Minds: Posthumanism, Kairos, and Technical Communication in US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency
(Jason Barrett-Fox and Geoffrey Clegg)
12. Investigating the Workplaces of Science
(Deborah C. Andrews)
