{"id":6975,"date":"2008-07-17T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/inversion-and-d\/"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:35:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T16:35:26","slug":"inversion-and-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/inversion-and-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversion and Dissolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Obviously I am interested Kopelson&#8217;s revisitation of ages old and still going<br \/>\ntensions for the field of rhetoric and composition. The margins of my copy<br \/>\nbear out busy strings of alternating yesses and questions; I suppose I&#8217;ll focus<br \/>\nthis entry on a couple of the questions. <\/p>\n<p>Any time I come across suggestions of the field&#8217;s dissolution, I want to go<br \/>\nas directly as I can to the evidence. What are the forms of evidence<br \/>\nsupporting this or that impression that the field is gradually changing toward<br \/>\nsome state of (presumably undesirable, even disastrous) dissolution? Also:<br \/>\nWhat idyllic disciplinary model is lurking as the milk and honey benchmark<br \/>\nagainst which judgments of dissolution are alleged? I mean that the<br \/>\nsuggestion of a trend toward dissolution conjures up an idealized state of the<br \/>\ndiscipline. From when? Where? And just how abstract is it? (I have<br \/>\nmonkeyed with this idea in the diss, but also in some of the material on the<br \/>\nside that won&#8217;t make it into the diss, like the stuff on the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/mt\/archives\/001856.html\">Golden Age<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Kopelson puts it like this in one spot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But whatever your particular vision of the divide [between theory and<br \/>\n\tpractice], and wherever you lay blame (or praise) for it&#8211;with the elitist,<br \/>\n\tponderous, past-dwelling rhetoricians, or the professionalizing, pragmatic,<br \/>\n\tpresent-dwelling compositionists&#8211;there is evidence that the seeds of<br \/>\n\tdissolution are indeed being sown. (770)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About the evidence: In this article, it amounts to (<i>x<\/i>? number) of<br \/>\nsurvey responses from graduate students at two institutions&#8211;programs in the<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhetoric.msu.edu\/rc_consortium\/\">Consortium<\/a>, I would<br \/>\nguess, and a sampling of sources that have dealt more or less directly in<br \/>\nreflections upon or critiques of disciplinarity: Dobrin, Spellmeyer, North,<br \/>\nSwearingen, Mulderig, among others. Perhaps this is adequate for establishing<br \/>\ndissolution, perhaps not. This is not to cast doubts on Kopelson&#8217;s<br \/>\nevidence (it is, after all, reflective of pocketed perceptions of dissolution),<br \/>\nas much as it is to say that the change is more of situated (daresay anecdotal?)<br \/>\ndegree than of field-wide kind. And so I wonder how new this perceived sowing of<br \/>\n&quot;the seeds of dissolution&quot; is, and just what does it put at risk? Following this<br \/>\nevidence&#8211;surveys and selected sources, the next line carries the claim further:<br \/>\n&quot;the field of rhetoric and composition is, in the most extreme cases, gradually<br \/>\nevacuating itself of its first term (if not explicitly in name, then implicitly<br \/>\nin institutional practice) or, in other cases, is undergoing an interesting<br \/>\ninversion of its titular terms&quot; (770). The possibility of evacuation and<br \/>\ninversion calls to mind the necessary ratios between theory and practice. Is the<br \/>\ntarget ratio 50:50? Might be, depending on whether we are talking topical focus<br \/>\n(i.e., research motivated by theory or practice) or activity itself (i.e., time<br \/>\nspent theorizing versus time spent teaching). For graduate students, of<br \/>\ncourse, these ratios vary, too. In our program, we have fellowships<br \/>\ndesigned to relieve students of their teaching appointment so that they might<br \/>\ndevote greater time and energy to reading and writing (if executed well, the<br \/>\nratio becomes 100:0). But there are also program-level constraints on these<br \/>\nratios, right? Some places prefer a 70:30 split. Others, 80:20.<br \/>\nWe do not always determine them independently, nor are they constant over the<br \/>\narc of an appointment (through a graduate program of study or otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>Kopelson, Karen. &#8220;Sp(l)itting<br \/>\nImages; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition.&#8221; <i>CCC<\/i> 59.4<br \/>\n(2008): 750-780. 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