Postcomposition / Sidney I. Dobrin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobrin, Sidney I., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Leading a burgeoning self-critical moment in composition studies and writing program administration, Postcomposition is a fundamental reconsideration of the field that attempts to shift the focus away from pedagogy and writing subjects and toward writing itself. In this forceful and reasoned critique of many of the primary tenets and widely accepted institutional structures of composition studies, Sidney I. Dobrin delivers a series of shocks to the system meant to disrupt the pedagogical imperative and move beyond the existing limits of the discipline.

Postcomposition is a detailed consideration of how posthumanism affects the field's understanding of subjectivity. It also tears at the seams of the "contingent labor problem." As he articulates his own frustrations with the conservatism of composition studies and builds on previous critiques of the discipline, Dobrin stages a courageous-and inevitably polemical-intellectual challenge to the entrenched ideas and assumptions that have defined composition studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Disrupting Composition Studies 6

The (E)state of Composition/Theory 7

Post-Student 11

An Academic Field 17

2 The Space of Writing 29

The Idea of Space 36

The Idea of Occupation 42

The Occupation of Composition 50

Writing Occupation 55

3 Beyond the Subject of Composition Studies 59

Posthuman Subjectivity 60

Changing the Subject 73

4 Beyond the Administration of Subjects 92

(Re)Placing Writing Program Administration 95

Validation and Authentication 100

The Administrative Empire 105

Critical Mass(es) 110

Post-Labor 114

5 Ecocomposition Postcomposition 122

The Failure of Ecocomposition 125

Looking Back to Move Beyond 131

A Complex Ecology Approach 141

A Posthumanist Systems Theory Approach 146

An Ecosophy Approach 154

6 The Edge of Chaos 158

The Moment of Complexity 159

Composition Studies and The Moment of Complexity 171

Saturation 177

7 Pedagogy 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809330416

0809330415

9780809387885

0809387883

OCLC:

666491978