Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

A Shift Toward Non-Traditional Rhetorics

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“Rhetoric is an art learned, practiced, and performed by and with the body as well as the mind.”- Debra Hawhee


    For many centuries, rhetoric was understood as an exclusively linguistic practice, whether in the form of spoken or written language. However, scholars and rhetoricians, such as Debra Hawhee, Karyn Hollis, and Cheryl Forbes have begun to turn their attention to non-traditional rhetorics. While these non-traditional studies include object-oriented or animal rhetorics, I am interested in the shift toward rhetoric as just as much of an embodied, as it is linguistic practice. Debra Hawhee, Professor at Pennsylvania State University and leader in the shift toward non-traditional rhetorics, attests to rhetoric as an embodied practice in “Bodily Pedagogies: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Sophists’ Three Rs,” in which she re-imagines classical rhetoric as an embodied practice by comparing rhetorical and athletic training (141). She argues, “From this spatial intermingling of practices [she refers to the classical gymnasium in which young males were athletically trained and also made into citizen subjects through rhetorical training] there emerged a curious syncretism between athletics and rhetoric, a particular crossover in pedagogical practices and learning styles, a cross-over that contributed to the development of rhetoric as body art: an art learned, practiced, and performed by and with the body as well as the mind” (Hawhee 144).  While Hawhee uses the example of athletic training to examine the pedagogy of rhetoric as an embodied experience, I look to the way that the body both points out and subverts the social and cultural normativities that are imposed on it. I also explore these two types of bodily rhetoric, which I refer to as the “written on” and “speaking” body in the context of both physical and digital spaces. 

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