In her article published just a few weeks ago in Enculturation, Bonnie Tucker lays out a theory of what she refers to as technocapitalist disability rhetoric. Technocapitalist disability rhetoric (what I'll call TCDR), in Tucker's conception, is a familiar representation trope in which technology and engineering corporations utilize depictions of disability in an attempt to associate their … Continue reading Wired Utopia: Expanding Technocapitalist Disability Rhetorics
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DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
The following is an edited and re-worked excerpt of a seminar paper I wrote for a 21st-Century Fiction class at the University at Buffalo in the spring of 2016. The suburbanization of the post-war United States proved a bounty for corporations just beginning to realize the means to tighten their grasp on the key to … Continue reading DeLillo, Brand Names and Post-Postmodernism
Jacob Richter 