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Tech Camp 2008 ended on Thursday after three days of entirely worthwhile,
\ninvigorating stuff tied to imagework, web writing, and video. <\/p>\n

I was asked to open the morning’s discussion on day three, and I did so by writing a short
\nlist of openings and provocations on the marker board at the front of the room.
\nI felt most uncertain about the first item because I’m not sure I’ve considered
\nit from enough angles. I was thinking about the rock and the hard place
\nfor new media in rhetoric and composition: critique, on the one hand, and technology grand narratives, on the other.
\nCritique, as I think of it, rears its head where the focus is on reading and
\nanalyzing new media objects. Visual rhetorics often gravitate in this direction,
\ntoo, toward a consciousness-raising hermeneutics of thorough noticing performed on
\nimages and objects made by others. Critique includes conversations about
\naccess to technology, which are relevant and important, but do not serve well as ends in
\nand of themselves. Access-based critiques of technology cannot be not easily singled
\nout from that same predicament–is it an inevitability?–for literacy and orality,
\nnor have enough of them gone beyond commentary (even moralizing) into
\naction–grant writing, creative workarounds, and putting computers on desks. <\/p>\n

If critique (i.e., the rock) is loose and inclusive, sweeping narratives
\n(i.e., the hard place) are even more capacious and also sticky (a Great Katamari;
\nlook out!). Woes of technological imminence prevail here: it makes us
\nstupid, it is anti-intellectual, it atrophies muscles, etc., often in unfortunately broad
\nstrokes. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

If I sound dismissive of these two responses to technology, I don’t mean to.
\nI am simply trying to characterize two counterweights that deliver a great deal of
\ninertia to the scene of composing in new media–writing, producing, making,
\nexperimenting, sampling, mixing, selecting, and so on. They expunge it. They halt it in its tracks. I am not arguing that these gestures are
\nempty or that it is anything short of imperative for new media producers to be
\nfamiliar with them, even in those occasional cases where they are misguided or
\nunsubstantiated. Yet they stand out because they are inertial, because they risk
\nturning production on its ear.<\/p>\n

That’s what I meant to bring up, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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