![]() ![]() My training is historical, philosophical, and theoretical, and I think those influences manifest themselves in my work. We sometimes mistake it for something that exists independently from ourselves, but we struggle sometimes to understand how we’re implicated and embodied with it, by it, for it, and against it. I don’t think that it’s intrinsically radical or conservative, and yet, it’s not a neutral factor independent of its consequences. Technology, like rhetoric, is both tactical and strategic I think of it as something that we do rather than something that simply is. Technology is less a content area that one might master, and more a collection of attitudes that cut across disciplines and phenomena. By the time I was ready to work on a dissertation, with Lanham, Bolter, Laurel, and others dancing in my head, I ended up with a project that eventually led to my first book. The emergence of the web and of hypertext authoring software like Storyspace ended up being a great fit for someone like me who had always been fascinated by experimental writing. But technology was just something else I did until I got into my doctoral program. I’d always been a bit of a technology person–I bought my first Mac during the fall term of my first year in college, and I had some skills. I received my PhD in the Humanities, with concentrations in rhetoric/composition and critical theory, from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1997. ![]()
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