Early Cold War Professional Communication: A Rationale for Progressive Posthumanism

Ronald Clark Brooks

doi:10.1080/10572250903372934

Technical Communication Quarterly Dec 2009

Early Cold War Professional Communication: A Rationale for Progressive Posthumanism

Ronald Clark Brooks Oklahoma State University

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Abstract Early Cold War professional communication teachers anticipated posthumanist awareness in our culture. They were also granted more agency for progressive action than many of their contemporaries. By showing the different ways that these scholars responded to their posthuman situation, this study articulates how posthumanist theory complicates the progressive notion of a student-centered classroom and, more importantly, explains what happens to the progressive project when it is more explicitly connected to posthumanism. Notes 1. See CitationBrooke (2000) for a thorough explanation of how posthumanism helps us move beyond ludic quietism.

Journal: Technical Communication Quarterly
Published: 2009-12-29
DOI: 10.1080/10572250903372934
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