Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Date of Degree
9-2023
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Program
English
Advisor
Amy J Wan
Committee Members
Jessica Yood
Matthew K Gold
Subject Categories
Other Rhetoric and Composition
Keywords
posthumanism, extractivism, cognition
Abstract
The influence of post-humanist interdisciplinary theories on Writing Studies has displaced its conventional preoccupation with the cultivation and management of subjects via First-Year Writing (FYC), to productive but at times artificially divisive ends. This project aims at an inclusive, anti-racist first-year writing ecology through theories of networked consciousness and digital “making.” I reread and recuperate earlier variants of posthumanist writing theory and draw from feminist materialism and mindfulness studies to establish a vision of well-being that I call networked reparative practices. To bring the abstract into the tangible, an often-valued endeavor in a field historically defined by teaching, I introduce a web application which I created to capture the labor of private writing, called BlabRyte. Intervening in Writing Studies’ engagement with new media, BlabRyte enacts the networked reparative which I describe in earlier chapters through its procedural rhetoric.
Recommended Citation
Larsson, Anna A., "Posthuman Lessons for Writing and Well-Being: Reparative Practices" (2023). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5505