Beyond Postprocess

Beyond Postprocess offers a vigorous, provocative discussion of postprocess theory in its contemporary profile. Fueled by something like a fundamental refusal to see writing as self-evident, reducible, and easily explicable, the contributors rethink postprocess, suggesting that there is no easily defined moment or method that could be called postprocess. Instead, each contribution to this collection provides a unique and important example of what work beyond postprocess could be. Since postprocess theory in writing studies first challenged traditional conceptions of writing and the subject who writes, developments there have continued to push theorists of writing in a number of promising theoretical directions. Spaces for writing have arisen that radically alter ideological notions of space, rational thinking, intellectual property and politics, and epistemologies; and new media, digital, and visual rhetorics have increasingly complicated the scene, as well. Contributors to Beyond Postprocess reconsider writing and writing studies through posthumanism, ecology, new media, materiality, multimodal and digital writing, institutional critique, and postpedagogy. Through the lively and provocative character of these essays, Beyond Postprocess aims to provide a critical site for nothing less than the broad reevaluation of what it means to study writing today. Its polyvocal considerations and conclusions invest the volume with a unique potential to describe not what that field of study should be, but what it has the capacity to create. The central purpose of Beyond Postprocess is to unleash this creative potential. Writing And Accountability / Barbara Couture -- What Constitutes A Good Story? Narrative Knowledge In Process, Postprocess, And Post-postprocess Composition Research / Debra Journet -- Putting Process Into Circulation: Textual Cosmopolitanism / Joel Marshall Hardin -- Reassembling Postprocess: Toward A Posthuman Theory Of Public Rhetoric / Byron Hawk -- The Page As A Unit Of Discourse: Notes Toward A Counterhistory For Writing Studies / John Trimbur And Karen Press -- Folksonomic Narratives: Writing Detroit / Jeff Rice -- Old Questions, New Media: Theorizing Writing In A Digital Age / Kyle Jensen -- Postconflict Pedagogy: Writing In The Stream Of Hearing / Cynthia Haynes -- Being Delicious: Materialities Of Research In A Web 2.0 Application / Collin Brooke And Thomas Rickert -- First, A Word / Raúl Sánchez -- The Salon Of 2010 / Geoffery Sirc -- Postpedagogical Reflections On Plagiarism And Capital / Rebecca Moore Howard. Edited By Sidney I. Dobrin, J.a. Rice, Michael Vastola. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.