Blog Juice for Educational Technology

You know you’re in trouble when characters cannot find a way to resolve their “issues” within the space of 370 pages. If our fiction places us with insurmountable obstacles to a fulfilling life, when we cannot even imagine what it might look like to be happy campers, when the best we can do is always already second best…well, like I say, you’re in trouble. But so is your culture. Or, perhaps, I would propose: so is our culture.

In her novel _Oryx and Crake_(2003) we are treated to another ‘end -of- the-world’ narrative. This is a particularly good one, as I remember, because some of the best descriptions I’ve ever experienced of technical brilliance and sensuous enjoyment find their way into the subconscious. But my focus here is on the condition of those engaged in applied rhetoric, another way of saying the field of composition.