Mar 20: Delagrange (again), Hypermediacy (again), & Racialized Gaze
Dear All Good ENG 4815 Folks:
I'm re-posting most of this from Mar 8, as our visual composing exercise took us in a completely different direction. Thus ...
... after the break, please bring back your selected chapter from Susan Delagrange's Technologies of Wonder (either ch 2 or ch 3), and preferably download the PDF so that you can read it from your device. If you do so, you'll be able to use the interactive elements.
Please also come prepared to discuss Sue Hum's "The Racialized Gaze."
Delagrange
Delagrange proposes the explicit use of hypermediated projects in classroom settings because they "provide opportunities for scholarly inquiry that have no equivalent in print, yet are equally as rigorous intellectually" (20). She does this by arguing for new theories of old concepts, i.e., "techne," "wonder," "seeing," "vision," "pleasure," and "bodies." I'll be interested to see if we can piece together working notions of "hypermediacy" and "embodiment" based on her chapters.
Hum
Sue Hum offers "racialized gaze" as another critical stance and as a potential factor in representing "the other." I'll be interested to see how this concept could enhance or complicate our understanding of "spectacle."
Here are some discussion questions that may guide us at some point next class:
Here are some other spaces we might revisit:
Finally, please sign up proactively for a f2f conference on the next step of your MGP -- the Visually Annotated Bibliography. (I'm going to deliver feedback through f2f conference for expedience sake!)
-Dr. Graban
I'm re-posting most of this from Mar 8, as our visual composing exercise took us in a completely different direction. Thus ...
... after the break, please bring back your selected chapter from Susan Delagrange's Technologies of Wonder (either ch 2 or ch 3), and preferably download the PDF so that you can read it from your device. If you do so, you'll be able to use the interactive elements.
Please also come prepared to discuss Sue Hum's "The Racialized Gaze."
Delagrange
Delagrange proposes the explicit use of hypermediated projects in classroom settings because they "provide opportunities for scholarly inquiry that have no equivalent in print, yet are equally as rigorous intellectually" (20). She does this by arguing for new theories of old concepts, i.e., "techne," "wonder," "seeing," "vision," "pleasure," and "bodies." I'll be interested to see if we can piece together working notions of "hypermediacy" and "embodiment" based on her chapters.
Hum
Sue Hum offers "racialized gaze" as another critical stance and as a potential factor in representing "the other." I'll be interested to see how this concept could enhance or complicate our understanding of "spectacle."
Here are some discussion questions that may guide us at some point next class:
- In the chapter "Revision and Remediation," how do Delagrange's definitions of "revision" and "remediation" differ from your own, or from others you have seen? Or, how are they like your own?
- In the chapter "Embodiment by Design," many of the images Delagrange uses conflate (or treat interchangeably) the acts of reading, viewing, and remembering. In fact, some rhetoric scholars say that her chapter is less about images and more about how history affects how we read images. Can you find an example where you think this is the case?
- Does Delagrange's chapter remind you more of LuMing Mao's "Thinking Beyond Aristotle," Roland Barthes's "From Work to Text," or Wendy Hesford's "Introduction to Spectacular Rhetorics"? Why?
- When faced with the "visually unrepresentable" (assuming there is such a thing), what determines our sense of whether an image/icon is ethical or authentic or racist or fair? Could Hum help us achieve such a critical move?
Here are some other spaces we might revisit:
- our attempts to formulate an "ethic of looking" for textual study.
- a space for articulating a transnational rhetorical (TRN) approach to textual and imagistic study.
Finally, please sign up proactively for a f2f conference on the next step of your MGP -- the Visually Annotated Bibliography. (I'm going to deliver feedback through f2f conference for expedience sake!)
-Dr. Graban