Metabolizing capital : writing, information, and the biophysical environment / Christian J. Pulver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulver, Christian J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : Utah State University Press, an imprint of University Press of Colorado, [2020]

Summary:

"Draws on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition, and blends metabolic ecology, physics, media studies, information theory, cognitive psychology, history, new materialism, and Marxism. This disparate disciplinary stew produces critical framework to guide the theorization of writing and rhetoric in the contexts of Web 3.0 and environmental crisis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The theoretical roots of MEOW

Writing technologies and their embodied history of use

Web 3.0 and informational capitalism

Information production, acceleration, and the biophysical world

The effects of manufactured distraction on the body

Developing critical, ecological literacies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pulver, Christian J., Metabolizing capital

ISBN:

9781607329671

1607329670

OCLC:

1131869334