"resistance and rhetorical tactics: games & portfolios"

Resistance and Rhetorical Tactics:

Games and PortfoliosScott Reed,

Georgia Gwinnett College

RESISTANCE

RESISTANCE

BOREDOM

The post-process

moment

“Textuality is thus the terrain on

which different conceptions of

economic, social, and political

conditions are contested with

consequences for the formation of

the subjects of history, the very consciousness of

the historical agent.”

– James Berlin

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Discourse!

Discourse!

Byron Hawk’s critique:For all our post-process instance on textual negotiation, resistance is strangely heuristic:

about the movement of subjects from one position to another.

BORED

OM

RESISTANCE….

BORED

OMSvendsen:An involuntary loss of meaning

Boredom is….Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind.

meh.

meh.

Boredom is….Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind.As an attunement, proceeds from a complex ecology of relations between individuals and objects.

meh.

meh.

Boredom is….Not an emotion, but a “mood” in the Heideggerian sense: an attunement or state of mind.As an attunement, proceeds from a complex ecology of relations between individuals and objects.Chiefly characterized by “the withdrawal of meaning” from everyday activities.

meh.

meh.

McKenzie Wark: Games, Boredom, and Digital Modernity

In the world of gamespace, “What prevails is the same agon, the same digital logic of one versus the other, ending in victory or defeat” (Wark 6).

The issue isn’t that we’re no longer goal directed, but that we’ve forgotten to be any other way.

Even negotiated, contingent, resistant meanings risk falling into the same gap.

Even negotiated, contingent, resistant meanings risk falling into the same gap.

What withdraws is the possibility for meaning itself.

Oh crap, now

what?

Oh crap, now

what?

First things first.

First things first.

This is not your enemy.

Of course, neither is this.

And, ultimately, neither is this.

It’s more like this.

MATERIALS

TACTICS

ProceduralityMultimodalityKnowledge Transfer

Why Portfolios?

Embrace the digital agon.Pew pew

Pew pew

Pew pew

Pew pew

“I don't view [electronic music] as identification with machines; it's more like saying the culture itself is an abstract machine: let's play.” (Miller/Lanier, 2006, 2:39)

Engage in multiple modes.Reattune through “provenance.”

Resist boredom by playing with unexpected connections.

Thank you.

Scott ReedGeorgia Gwinnett Collegesreed3@ggc.edu@rhetoroxor on Twitter