College Composition and Communication Feb 2016

Around 1986: The Externalization of Cognition and the Emergence of Postprocess Invention

Kristopher M. Lotier

Abstract

Around 1986, inventional researchers began to presuppose an externalist philosophy of mind, thereby ushering in the postprocess era. Ecological composition and posthumanism,now understood as postprocess inventional models, present direct pedagogical applications, allowing different objects (e.g., databases, search engines) to qualify as writing and favoring rhetorical impact over “originality.”

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College Composition and Communication
Published
2016-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201628064
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rhetorical criticism writing pedagogy
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  1. Overstreet et al. (2026)
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    Written Communication
  2. Overstreet (2022)
    Writing as extended mind: Recentering cognition, rethinking tool use
    Computers and Composition
  3. Feigenbaum (2021)
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    Pedagogy

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