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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.

Theories of Spaces:
Lefebvre, Henri. (1991). The production of space. (Donald Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. (Original work published 1974) (pp. 169-228)

Soja, Edward W. (1989). Postmodern geographies: The reassertion of space in critical social theory. London: Verso. (pp. 43-93, 119-136, & 190-222)

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

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.

Baudrillard, Jean (1983). Simulations. (Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman, Trans.). New York: Semiotext(e). (Original work published 1981) (pp. 1-11, 24-26, 49-58, & 83)

Foucault, Michel. (1997). Of other spaces: Utopias and heterotopias. In Neil Leach (Ed.), Rethinking architecture: A reader in cultural theory (pp. 350-356). 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.

Virilio, Paul. (1998). Critical space. In James Der Derian (Ed.), The Virilio reader (pp. 58-72). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

course facilitation project: Dalyn & Nick

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

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

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1977). Outline of a theory of practice. (Richard Nice, Trans.). New York: Cambridge University Press. (Original work published 1972) (pp. 159-197)

De Certeau, Michel. (1984). The practice of everyday life. (Steven Rendall, Trans.). Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Original work 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 )

Tuan, Yi-Fu. (1977). Space and place: The perspective of experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (pp. 3-7)

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

course facilitation project: Jen D. & Daniel

Readings on Borders, Crossings, & Transgressions:

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

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)

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)

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

Sibley, David. (1995). Geographies of exclusion: Society and difference in the west. New York: Routlege. (pp. 137-156)

course facilitation project: Kathryn & Kerry

Readings on Spatial Praxes:

Johnson-Eilola, Johndan. (forthcoming). Datacloud. (chapter 5)

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)

Mountford, Roxanne. (2001). "On Gender and Rhetorical Space." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 31, 41-71.

Porter, James E., Sullivan, Patricia, Blythe, Stuart, Grabill, Jeffrey T., & Miles, Libby. (2000). Institutional critique: A rhetorical methodology for change. College Composition and Communication, 51, 610-42.

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.

course facilitation project: Deb & Maggie

Readings on Theories of Design & Visual Literacy:

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.

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.

Heywood, Ian. (1999). "Ever more specific": Practices and perceptions in art and ethics. In Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell (Eds.), Interpreting visual culture: Explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual (pp. 198-217). New York: Routledge.

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

Readings on Design & Visual Literacy Praxes:

Arnheim, Rudolph. (2004). Pictures, symbols, and signs. In Carolyn Handa (Ed.). Visual rhetoric in a digital world: A critical sourcebook. (pp. 137-151). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. (Original publication 1969)

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

Doumont, Jean-Luc. (2002). Verbal vs. visual: A word is worth a thousand pictures, too. Technical Communication, 49.2, 219-224.

Dragga, Sam, & Voss, Dan. (2001). Cruel pies: The inhumanity of technical illustrations. Technical Communication, 48, 265-74.

Kostelnick, Charles, & Hassett, Michael. (2003). Shaping information:The rhetoric of visual conventions. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP. (pp. 43-118)

Woolsey, Kristina, Kim, Scott, & Curtis, Gayle. (1996). VizAbility: Change the way you see the world. Boston: PWS Publishing. (pp.12-39)

Spring Break--No Class Meeting

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)

Sturken, Marita, & Cartwright, Lisa. (2001). Practice of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp. 72-108)

Readings on Images/Words/Media:

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)

Sturken, Marita, & Cartwright, Lisa. (2001). Practice of looking: An introduction to visual culture. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp. 109-150)

course facilitation project: Kelly & Vance

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.

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.

Tufte, Edward R. (1990). Envisioning information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press. (pp. 24-25, 104-105)

Zelman, Stephanie. (2000). Looking into space. In Gunnar Swanson (Ed.), Graphic design and reading: Explorations of an uneasy relationship (pp. 51-59). New York: Allsworth Press.

course facilitation project: David & Jen H.

Readings on Interactivity, Motion, & Movement:

Gasperini, Jim. (1999). Structural ambiguity: An emerging interactive aesthetic. In Robert Jacobson (Ed.), Information design (pp. 301-16). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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.

Virilio, Paul. (1998). The vision machine. In James Der Derian (Ed.), The Virilio reader (pp. 134-51). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

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