Desiring Gazes?

Sometimes, just a question... I, like many I presume, enjoy being the object of desiring gazes--at times. How might the desiring gaze shift, be refigured, be rendered via digital media? To mediate on this, a quicktime video... The pictures are stills from Jean Genet's rarely seen short film (his only film effort), Un Chant d'Amour. The video is currently at YouTube.

Giddens, Circularity, Flirting

8.30 earlier this morning. Coming into Denney Hall, home of the English Department at OSU, where DMAC is being hosted, I took the elevator up to the third floor, after getting directions from a cute young man. He rode up with me, smiling all the way, clearly starting to flirt a little bit. What a wonderful way to begin DMAC. And appropriate. After all, my project is somewhat about connectivity, particularly queer connectivity. What happens when we connect sexually over the Internet? More basically, what does connecting sexually over the Internet mean? As a cyborg, how can/do/may I extend myself sexually through the new communications technologies? And as Giddens describes, how does the circularity of our experiences, the push/pull of us with the world, circle back and render us changed in our making on the world? The kid in the elevator, pushing, pulling, making me in the flirting. Theory is SO cool...

DMAC background

I forgot to provide some background about DMAC: . DMAC is what happened when Cindy Selfe moved from Michigan Tech, where she coordinated CIWIC (which I believe stood for Computers in Writing-Intensive...Composition? I'm unsure. I never got the chance to go...) So DMAC is an opportunity to explore a variety of digital media as it relates to literacy development. It's largely a hands-on opportunity to experiment with the "new media." At the moment, one of Cindy's grad students is instructing everyone on the use of blogs...so I figured that that would be a good opportunity to post on this blog...and share a picture or two. I took all of these pictures with my cellphone and bluetoothed them to my desktop for uploading to the blog. The attractive gal is Cindy Selfe herself(e), modeling how to wear headphones while you are also (pretending) to listen to instructions on how to wear your headphones.

queer, digital, rhetorical in columbus

I'm beginning my stint at the Digital Media & Composition (DMAC) institute at OSU. I was invited by Cindy Selfe to be one of four Visiting Scholars in Digital Media & Composition, but you won't here much about that. I'm here to ask questions, Lots of questions. Such as, is there such a thing as a queer digital rhetoric? Maybe more basically, what's a queer to do with digital rhetoric? And what's digital rhetoric? And why are these important questions, IF they are important questions. Stay tuned. Pictures and video to come.