English 855-001
Seminar in Theories of Business and Technical Writing: Rhetoric of Technology and Management
Instr: Clark, Dave
Office: CRT 582; 229-4870
e-mail: dclark@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: T; 5:30-8:10pm; CRT 286
Course Description
Organizations are primarily discursive in nature, whether we're discussing Coca Cola or the Sierra Club or UWM; their brick-and-mortar enterprises exist on and because of the mobilization of technological and intertextual networks that create, manage, and control information. And increasingly, organizations are recognizing themselves as such, resulting in a recent flurry of knowledge and information management theories, always with an agenda of leaner, more profitable companies. In this course, we will discuss organizations with our own agendas, melding a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches in critiquing the goals, strategies, theories, and methods of contemporary information-based enterprises.
To do so, we will read from the rhetoric of technology and management theory, but also from science studies, anthropology and sociology of science, cultural studies, and primary technology and management texts. Readings will include Donna Haraway, Susan Leigh Star, Gary Downey, James Gee, Glynda Hull, Dorothy Winsor, Stephen Doheny-Farina, Sharon Traweek, Greg Myers, Bruno Latour, Pierre Bourdieu, Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, Andrew Feenberg, Peter Drucker, and Charles Bazerman.
