1st Edition

Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age

By Edward J. Comstock Copyright 2018
198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy, Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect, attention, and plasticity. In... Read more

Introduction

CHAPTER 1

Neuroscience and Neuroideology: Plasticity, Flexibility, and the Emotional Architecture of Experience

CHAPTER 1.5: Pedagogy Breakout 1

When Writing Explodes: The Relations Between Emotional Intelligence, Transference, and Blockages

CHAPTER 2

Composition’s Correlationalisms: Objects of Wonder

CHAPTER 3

To Care or not to Care: The Supposed Indestructability of Wonder

CHAPTER 3.5: Pedagogy Breakout 2

Taking the "Low Road" to Embodied Pedagogy: "Tacit Knowledge" and Wonder in Writing

CHAPTER 4

Writing Pedagogy and The Crises of Attention: From Distraction to Disaffection

CHAPTER 5

Technology, Intelligence, and the Plasticity of Writing in the New Attention Economy

CHAPTER 5.5: Pedagogy Breakout 3

Neurophilosophy, Argument Theory, and the Future of Reason: Towards an Embodied Public Rhetoric

Biography

Edward J. Comstock is Senior Professorial Lecturer of Literature at American University, USA.