{"id":6931,"date":"2008-04-09T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/wheres-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:00:00","slug":"wheres-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/wheres-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s Rhetoric?"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 4<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

The above question was at the heart of last Thursday’s C.15 session in New
\nOrleans. It was a full session–packed to the walls after being bumped from one
\nrather large space, Grand Ballroom D, to one of the smaller salons in the
\nadjacent hallway. After a curmudgeonly attendee in the back grumped
\n"Microphone?", the first speaker, Michael Bernard-Donals, described a needful
\nrelationship between composition and rhetoric (i.e., one in which composition
\nneeds<\/i> rhetoric). Bernard Donals observed that, judging by the conference
\nprogram, rhetoric appears to have been banished; it is invisible; it has been
\nmarginalized, at the very least. The decline of "rhetoric" in the program
\nserved as evidence for Bernard-Donals’ claim about its compromised, fading
\nstatus. He suggested, as well, that rhetoric might threaten composition’s
\ndisciplinary thrust toward stability. Variations on this idea turned up on
\nthe talks shared by Thomas Rickert and Rosa Eberly, also. Rickert’s "Rhetoric
\nBeyond Critique: Grappling with Institutionality After Kant" thoughtfully
\nconsidered the institutional inertia reflected in rhetoric’s lowly status in the
\ntoday’s academy. His concern was less the relationship between composition
\nand rhetoric than the tolerable limits of critique and, as well, the ways
\nrationalism’s powerful residue is deeply implicated in prevailing institutional
\nnorms. Neither my memory nor my notes serve me very well in saying more.
\nEberly echoed a slight variation on Bernard-Donals’ suggestion that rhetoric
\nthreatens stability: "Rhetoric via Crowley brings the possibility that we change
\nour minds." Up to that point, she worked–via performative flair and
\npersonal anecdote–at the idea that there are certain advantages in CCCClosets,
\nwalls that sequester and seal off, and so we need not hasten to dissolve divides
\nwhere they linger.<\/p>\n

This was an engaging panel all in all, perhaps all the more so for the sense
\nI had leaving it that the question–"Where’s Rhetoric?"–was answerable in a
\nhundred different ways (not that the panelists presumed their work to offer any
\nfinal word, of course). So, where is rhetoric at CCCC? As Bernard-Donals
\nexplained, it is less pronounced in the titles of sessions. And, because
\nits omission from titles does not prove its omission from the conference
\nprogram, he went on to say that in his methods of sifting the conference program
\nfor "rhetoric" he relied on tacit knowledge (familiarity with presenters,
\ntopics, and institutional affiliations, I would guess) to trace "rhetoric’s
\nfingerprints in the papers." By these methods, if he is right, "rhetoric" is
\nfading at the CCCC.<\/p>\n

It seemed to me to be a question of ground-truthing, the technique used by
\ncartographers when they venture out, GPS in hand, to corroborate what’s on the
\nmap with what’s on the ground–what’s real, that is, or evidential. But
\nthe very idea of finding rhetoric in the conference program (as opposed to the
\nconference) also depends upon how rhetoric is defined and how generous or
\nflexible the manner enacted in the process of looking. In other words, if
\nyou are not finding "rhetoric" where you are looking, is it a matter of how<\/i>
\nyou look or where<\/i> you look? Both, I suppose.<\/p>\n

Maybe I can get at this a different way–by looking for "rhetoric" in two
\nother panels I attended, first by glancing their titles and then by thinking
\nabout what happened in those sessions. First, consider E.34 Writing Pictures,
\nChanging Writing. No mention of "rhetoric" in the titles. It is listed
\nunder "Practices of Teaching Writing." Is this a rhetoric panel? I don’t
\nknow. Elsewhere: F.11 Visual Rhetoric of Comics, ‘Spectacle’, and Mail
\nArt. This was a panel organized by the conference, so the title, I would
\nimagine, was assigned somewhere in the selection process. One of the
\npapers listed mentioned "rhetoric" explicitly, but that panelist was not on hand
\nto present. Still, with "rhetoric" in the session title, and with "Theory" as
\nits area cluster, I suppose it is more likely F.11 is a hit than a miss.<\/p>\n

So, then, E.34, no mentions of "rhetoric", and F.11, explicit mentions of
\n"rhetoric". Both concerned art, comics, and visual "rhetoric," to varying
\ndegrees. E.34 did so with far more examples of student-created comics;
\nF.11, in so far as the papers concerned comics, dealt more with reading them,
\ninterpreting them, and analyzing them (rhetoric as a synonym for rhetorical
\ncriticism). McCloud’s work was invoked by presenters on both panels.
\nIn E.34, the complete series from Understanding<\/i> to Reinventing<\/i> to
\nMaking Comics<\/i> came up. In F.11, the discussion of comics stuck to
\nUnderstanding Comics<\/i>–McCloud’s more analytical, critical (rather than
\nproductive) project. With this I am not trying to say that rhetoric was more or
\nless present in one or the other of these panels, but I am trying to come to
\nterms with the sense I have that rhetoric is potentially more or less present in
\nthe conference depending on how we as conference-goers listen for it, ask
\nquestions inflected with rhetorical concepts, and how our own uneven training in
\nrhetoric positions us to expect that all writing activity is immersed in it.
\nI am trying to come to terms with my own hunches (both Qs&As) about the C.15
\nquestion–"Where’s Rhetoric?": What if it is<\/i> here?<\/p>\n

There are ninety-nine or more other ways to turn it, and it’s a fun,
\nevocative question.
\nWhere’s rhetoric? Eating at
\nEvelyn’s Place<\/a> (and,
\nthus, ditching all D.sessions).
\nWhere’s rhetoric? What do I look like, rhetoric’s mom?
\nWhere’s rhetoric? Touring.
\nWhere’s rhetoric? Getting schnockered on Bedford St. Martin’s wine over at the
\naquarium.
\nWhere’s rhetoric? If you are not finding it where you are looking, why are you
\nlooking for it there<\/i>?
\nWhere’s rhetoric? Last I saw, rhetoric was on the third floor, by the pool,
\nlistening to an iPod and wearing a long-sleeved t-shirt with a tag cloud on the
\nfront of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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