Rayuela es uno de mis libros favoritos! Alas, I was a “lector hembra,” in Cortazar’s words, and read it the linear way first. I envy those who read it the other way first.
Re: your post and the Enculturation issue. What I like most about it is that it’s a decent solution to the problem of presenting the essays in a journal in a way that allows them to maintain their individual coherence, but also provides lots of paths outward to the broader conversational network that they participate in.
Extrapolating way beyond what you write, I wonder if an end-game might be nothing less than a massive link-stravaganza, via a single interface, among and across journals, blogs, and discussion forums. Like a Rhetoripedia, or the Silvae Rhetoricae on steroids. I search “kairos” and get access to the appropriate passages in classical documents, contemporary journal articles, as well as images and videos that have either been tagged with the word or are somehow referenced in texts tagged with kairos. Within each text, lots of linkage going on, too, some links going immediately to other texts, some going to other databases, image and audio banks, whatever. All from a single interface, which allows you to save searches, compile tags, and trace the “paths” taken through the databases. I think some of this inter-linking work has already begun (i.e. Delicious and the CCC Archive), but it’s been done in different places, so it remains scattered. A lot of disconnected hopping. You’re likely to trip. And, anyway, such a platform could only work post-OA.
Shifting emphasis: Working towards OA, do you think something like PLoS ONE could work in rhet/comp and in the humanities at large? I can’t think of any reasons why not. Well, actually, I lied just now. I can think of a few reasons, but I’ll keep them to myself until I’ve heard the opinion from someone who has been in the field much longer than I have been.
I could give a much longer response, but for me, would it work, should it happen, and will it happen all summon very different answers. I do think that we have the tools, but there’s a lot of institutional inertia to overcome. The gentlest way I can think of to put this is that we would need to consider carefully the various ways we relate to knowledge and the discipline(s), and how some of those ways might be changed, in order to arrive at a place where some of this work might be possible.
I offer the gentle answer knowing full well how frustrating it is, believe me.
Seth Long
June 7, 2012 1:43 pmRayuela es uno de mis libros favoritos! Alas, I was a “lector hembra,” in Cortazar’s words, and read it the linear way first. I envy those who read it the other way first.
Re: your post and the Enculturation issue. What I like most about it is that it’s a decent solution to the problem of presenting the essays in a journal in a way that allows them to maintain their individual coherence, but also provides lots of paths outward to the broader conversational network that they participate in.
Extrapolating way beyond what you write, I wonder if an end-game might be nothing less than a massive link-stravaganza, via a single interface, among and across journals, blogs, and discussion forums. Like a Rhetoripedia, or the Silvae Rhetoricae on steroids. I search “kairos” and get access to the appropriate passages in classical documents, contemporary journal articles, as well as images and videos that have either been tagged with the word or are somehow referenced in texts tagged with kairos. Within each text, lots of linkage going on, too, some links going immediately to other texts, some going to other databases, image and audio banks, whatever. All from a single interface, which allows you to save searches, compile tags, and trace the “paths” taken through the databases. I think some of this inter-linking work has already begun (i.e. Delicious and the CCC Archive), but it’s been done in different places, so it remains scattered. A lot of disconnected hopping. You’re likely to trip. And, anyway, such a platform could only work post-OA.
Shifting emphasis: Working towards OA, do you think something like PLoS ONE could work in rhet/comp and in the humanities at large? I can’t think of any reasons why not. Well, actually, I lied just now. I can think of a few reasons, but I’ll keep them to myself until I’ve heard the opinion from someone who has been in the field much longer than I have been.
Collin
June 7, 2012 6:42 pmI could give a much longer response, but for me, would it work, should it happen, and will it happen all summon very different answers. I do think that we have the tools, but there’s a lot of institutional inertia to overcome. The gentlest way I can think of to put this is that we would need to consider carefully the various ways we relate to knowledge and the discipline(s), and how some of those ways might be changed, in order to arrive at a place where some of this work might be possible.
I offer the gentle answer knowing full well how frustrating it is, believe me.