Introduce class members, course goals, and projects.

Discuss frameworks for the study of spatial and visual rhetorics using the Barton & Barton reading.

Spatial Framing Reading:
Barton, Ben F., & Barton, Marthalee S. (1993). Ideology and the map: Toward a postmodern visual design practice. In Nancy Roundy Blyler & Charlotte Thralls (Eds.), Professional communication: The social perspective (pp. 49-78). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

No class meeting--Labor Day Holiday

Readings on Theories of Spaces:

Lefebvre, Henri. (1991). The production of space. (Donald Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (Original work published 1974) (excerpt)

*Soja, Edward W. (1989). Postmodern geographies: The reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso. (pp. 43-93, 118-137, & 190-222)

Soja, Edward. (1996). Third space: Journeys to Los Angeles and other real-and-imagined places. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. (pp. 1-23)

*provided in hard copy.

Readings on Cities, States, & Institutions:

Baudrillard, Jean. (1997). America. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 218-224). New York: Routledge.

Deleuze, Gilles. (1997). Postscript on the societies of control. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 308-313). New York: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel. (1997). Panopticism. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 356-367). New York: Routledge.

Foucault, Michel. (1980). Questions on geography. In Colin Gordon (Ed.), Power/Knowledge: Selected interviews and other writings 1972-1977 (pp. 63-77). New York: Pantheon.

Foucault, Michel. (1984). Space, knowledge, and power. In Paul Rabinow (Ed.), The Foucault reader (pp. 239-256). New York: Pantheon Books.

Readings on Non-Places, Places, & Nature(s):

Augé, M. (1995). Non-places: Introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity. London: Verso. (pp. 42-121)

De Certeau, Michel. (1984). The practice of everyday life. (Steven Rendall, Trans.). Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Original published 1980) (pp. 115-130)

Haraway, Donna. (1992). The promise of monsters: A regenerative politics for inappropriate/d others. In Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, & Paula A. Treichler (Eds.), Cultural studies (pp. 295-337). New York: Routledge. (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/monsters.html )

Virilio, Paul. (1986). Speed and politics. New York: Semiotext(e). (pp. 1-34)

Readings on Borders, Crossings, & Transgressions:

Anzaldúa, Gloria. (1999). La frontera/Borderlands. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books. (pp. 23-35)

Baca, Damián. (2008). Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations, and the territories of writing. New York: Palgrave. (pp. 119-132)

Blunt, Alison, & Gillian, Rose (Eds.). (1994). Writing women and space: Colonial and postcolonial geographies. New York: Guilford Press.

Brown, Michael P. (2000). Closet space: Geographies of metaphor from the body to the globe. New York: Routledge. (pp. 1-26)

Pratt, Mary L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession, 91, 33-40.

Readings on Spatial Praxes:

Massey, Doreen B., Quintas, Paul, & Wield, David. (2003). High-tech fantasies: Science parks in society, science, and space. New York: Taylor & Francis. (pp. 86-114)

hooks, bell (2004). Black vernacular: Archietcture as cultural practice. In Carolyn Handa (Ed.). Visual rhetoric in a digital world: A critical sourcebook. (pp. 395-400). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. (Original publication 1995)

Mountford, Roxanne. (2001). On gender and rhetorical space. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 31, 41-71.

Reynolds, Nedra. (2004). Geographies of writing: Inhabiting places and encountering difference. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. (pp. 47-77)

Sullivan, Patricia A., & James E. Porter. (1993). Remapping curricular geography: Professional writing in/and English. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 7, 389-422.

Readings on Theories of Design & Visual Literacy:

Dikovitskaya, Margarita. (2005). Visual culture: The study of the visual after the cultural turn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Buckley, Cheryl. (1986). Made in patriarchy: Toward a feminist analysis of women and design. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 251-262). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Foss, Sonya K. (1994). A rhetorical schema for the evaluation of visual imagery. Communication Studies, 45, 213-224.

Kress, Gunther, & Van Leeuwen, Theo. (1996). Reading images: The grammar of visual design. New York: Routledge. (Introduction and pp. 1-42)

Peterson, Valerie V. The rhetorical criticism of visual elements: An alternative to Foss's schema. Southern Communication Journal, 67.1, 19-32.

Readings on Design & Visual Literacy Praxes:

Brassuer, Lee. (2003). Visualizing technical information. New York: Baywood. (pp. 1-11 and 145-151)

Buchanan, Richard. (1986). Declaration by design: Rhetoric, argument, and demonstration in design practice. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 91-109). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kostelnick, Charles, & Hassett, Michael. (2003). Shaping information:The rhetoric of visual conventions. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. (pp. 43-80)

Pracejus, John, Olson, Douglas G., & O'Guinn, Thomas C. (2006.) How nothing became something: White space, rhetoric, history, and meaning. Journal of Consumer Research, 33, 82-90.

Wysocki, Anne Frances. (2007). Seeing the screen: Research into visual and digital writing practices. In Charles Bazerman (Ed.). Handbook of Research on Writing: History, Society, School, Individual, Text. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (pp. 599-611).

Readings on Methods & Ethics of Sight:

Barthes, Roland. (1977). Image-music-text. (Stephen Heath, Trans.). New York: Hill and Wang. (pp. 32-51)

Berger, John. (1995). Ways of seeing. Baltimore: Viking Press. (pp. 7-34.)

Haraway, Donna. (1995). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. In Andrew Feenberg & Alastair Hannay (Eds.), Technology & the politics of knowledge. (pp. 175-194). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Nichols, Bill. (1994). The ethnographer's tale. In Lucien Taylor (Ed.), Visualizing theory: Selected essays from VAR 1990-1994. New York: Routledge. (pp. 60-83)

Tufte, Edward R. (1997). Visual explanations. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. (pp. 27-53)

Readings on Images/Words/Media:

Hocks, Mary E. (2003). Understanding visual rhetoric in digital writing environments
College Composition and Communication, 54.4, 629-656.

Latour, Bruno, & Weibel, Peter (Eds.). (2002). Iconoclash: Beyond the image wars in science, religion and art. MIT Press.

McCloud, Scott. (1994). Understanding comics. New York: Kitchen Sink Press. (pp. 138-161.)

Mitchell, W.J.T. (1992). Word & image. In Robert S. Nelson & Richard Shiff (Eds.), Critical terms for art history (pp. 47-57). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Ohmann, Richard. (1996). Selling culture: Magazines, markets, and class at the turn of the century. London: Verso. (pp. 175-218)

website analysis day--we will explore specific websites and discuss their spatial and visual practices.

Readings on Text, Words, & Typography:

Benton, Megan L. (2001). Typography and gender: Remasculating the modern book. In Paul C.Gutjahr & Megan L. Benton, Illuminating letters: Typography and literary interpretation (pp. 71-93). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Coupland, Douglas. (2007). Visual thinking. http://www.granta.com/Magazine/101/Visual-Thinking

Font conference at http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

Gutjahr, Paul C., & Benton, Megan L. (2001). Introduction: Reading the invisible. Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, Illuminating letters: Typography and literary interpretation (pp. 1-11). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.

Kinross, Robin. (1986). The rhetoric of neutrality. In Victor Margolin (Ed.), Design discourse: History | theory | criticism (pp. 131-143). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Readings on Interactivity, Motion, & Movement:

Bolter, Jay David, & Gromala, Diane. (2003). Widows and mirrors: Interaction design, digital art, and the myth of transparency. Cambridge: MIT Press. (pp. 30-57)

Manovich, Lev. (2001). The language of new media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (pp. 218-243)

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. (1999). An introduction to visual culture. New York: Routlege. (pp. 91-126)

Rokeby, David. (1995). Transforming mirrors: Subjectivity and control in interactive media. In Simon Penny (Ed.), Critical issues in electronic media (pp. 133-58). Albany: SUNY Press.

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