Bodies Without Skin: Feeling out of a ubiquitous future
by David Gruber
Gruber, David. Published in Ctheory
The paper considers the meaning of a body without skin or, rather, one with multiple “skins” on the inside and the... more The paper considers the meaning of a body without skin or, rather, one with multiple “skins” on the inside and the outside in a sensual and sensing ubiquitous computing environment. Thinking about the changing material conditions for human development from within a technological drive for Whatever Anywhere All The Time offers an opportunity to stretch the skin of deontological theorizing from a post-Deleuzian analytic that understands and maps Being-as-relations in terms of “affecting and affectable bodies.” The paper concludes by questioning the appearances of the affecting and the affectable and by doubting the compatibility of the technological Whatever and human liberation.
Rhetoric and the Neurosciences: Engagement and Exploration
by David Gruber
POROI Vol 7(1) Co-authored with Jordynn Jack, Lisa Keränen, Matt B. Morris, and John M. McKenzie
The expansion of the neurosciences has opened up new areas of exploration for rhetoric of science and technology... more The expansion of the neurosciences has opened up new areas of exploration for rhetoric of science and technology scholars. Consequently, members of the Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (ARST) consider this an appropriate time to address the relationship between rhetoric and the neurosciences. In so doing, this essay calls for collaborative scholarship between neuroscientists and rhetoricians and advances a four-part agenda for future research.