The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media offers a historical critique of composition studies rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work. Author Jeff Rice returns to critical moments during the rebirth of composition studies when the discipline chose not to emphasize technology, cultural studies, and visual writing, which are now fundamental to composition studies. Rice redefines these moments in order to invent a new electronic practice.
The Rhetoric of Cool addresses the disciplinary claim that composition studies...

Since the 1967 riots that ripped apart the city, Detroit has traditionally been viewed either as a place in ruins or a metropolis on the verge of rejuvenation. In Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the Network, author Jeff Rice goes beyond the notion of Detroit as simply a city of two ideas. Instead he explores the city as a web of multiple meanings which, in the digital age, come together in the city s spaces to form a network that shapes the writing, the activity, and the very thinking of those around it.

Rice focuses his study on four of Detroit s most...

PRE/TEXT 21.1-4 2013 CONTENTS. Special Issue: FOOD THEORY. "Introduction" by Jenny Edbauer Rice and Jeff Rice "The Good Body, Skilled in Eating" by Donovan Conley "Food for Thought" by Phillip Foss "Un(Loveable) Food" by Jenny Edbauer Rice "Love In The Time of Global Warming" by Mark Stern "The Organic Libertarian: How Deregulation Should Benefit Small Farms" by Eric Reuter "Consuming Iowa, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Earl Butz" by David M. Grant "The Urban Food Database and the Pedagogy of Attunement" by Jodie Nicotra "Menu Literacy" by Jeff Rice "The Erotic Pleasures of...

FLORIDA proposes Florida as a nexus of various contested moments, ideas, concepts, and relations. In the age of networks, it is not enough to only think of computerized, economic, or labor intensive systems as networks. As Bruno Latour writes, networks are represented in ways other than graphic visualizations or visualizations of spokes and connections. Spaces, too, are networks, and specific spaces, such as Florida, are networks in need of exploring and understanding so that we better understand how politics, ideology, economics, race, and other moments come into being and affect each other...

FLORIDA proposes Florida as a nexus of various contested moments, ideas, concepts, and relations. In the age of networks, it is not enough to only think of computerized, economic, or labor intensive systems as networks. As Bruno Latour writes, networks are represented in ways other than graphic visualizations or visualizations of spokes and connections. Spaces, too, are networks, and specific spaces, such as Florida, are networks in need of exploring and understanding so that we better understand how politics, ideology, economics, race, and other moments come into being and affect each other...