Technologies of Wonder

Susan H. Delagrange

Cover image of Technologies of Wonder, featuring a collage of images that includes a drawing of a face with angled lines extending from the eyes, painted rectangular tiles, and a camera.

Technologies of Wonder

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Awards

Winner of the 2011 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award

Winner of the 2012 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award from the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric

Winner of the 2013 CCCC Outstanding Book Award

Description

Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World considers the theoretical and pedagogical implications of designing academic scholarship in interactive digital media, and proposes renewed emphasis on embodied visual rhetoric and on the canon of arrangement as an active visual practice. This project uses the concept of the Wunderkammer to argue for techné and wonder as guiding principles for a revitalized visual canon of arrangement and as new models of invention and intervention in multimodal scholarly production. Technologies of Wonder also presents examples of how this rhetoric of inquiry can be applied to multimodal projects in the classroom.

New digital technologies offer viable alternatives to linear, less embodied traditions of academic scholarship. Emerging at a time when academic presses are under considerable economic pressure, Technologies of Wonder also serves as a model for how rigorous intellectual projects can be published and disseminated in less costly, more accessible formats.

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  • Publication date:
    November 2011
  • ISBN:
    978-0-87421-871-8
  • APA Citation:

    Delagrange, Susan H. (2011). Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. Retrieved from http://ccdigitalpress.org/wonder.

  • MLA Citation:

    Delagrange, Susan H. Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press, 2011.

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