Contents
Introduction (Scott Sundvall and Joseph Weakland)
Section I: Bodies
1. Unity and Difference: Figurations for a Future Rhetoric (Kristie S. Fleckenstein and Anna M. Worm)
2. Speculative Zoopoetics (Sean Morey)
Section II: Minds
3. Composing with Deliberate Speed: Writing Humanity’s Future Sensorium (Alexander Reid)
4. Abductive Speculation: Frederic Myers and the Future of Gesturo-Haptic Writing Technologies (Kyle Jensen)
Section III: (Popular) Culture
5. Gendered Technologies of the Self(ie), or Why We Really Need to “Keep Up” with the Kardashians (Kristine L. Blair)
6. Networked Food Narratives: Lyrical Interfaces (Jeff Rice)
Section IV: Games and Gaming
7. Speculative Phreaking: Uncovering the Future from Beneath the Internet (Geoffrey V. Carter)
8. The OOOculus Rift and the Canon of Style (Steve Holmes)
Section V: Technics, Technicity, and Technical Writing
9. From Aristotle to Computational Topoi (Alexander Monea)
10. Beyond the Graphic User Interface: Speculations on the Future of Speech Technology and the Role of the Technical Communicator (Halcyon M. Lawrence)
Section VI: Electracy
11. Konsult: Electrate Justice (Gregory L. Ulmer)
12. What’s Funny? Looking Forward while Fighting Back with Postconflict Laughter (Sarah J. Arroyo and Bahareh B. Alaei)
Afterword: Unforeseen and Unimaginable (Sidney I. Dobrin)
About the Authors
Index