Connections Between Neuroscience Rhetoric and Writing

<p>This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments extends and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric affect and writing pedagogy. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect attention and plasticity. In considering the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the neurobiology this volume both theorizes and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching writing in a digital age characterized by the erosion of wonder and pervasive disaffection. Ultimately in response to recent critiques transcendental reason and subjectivity and related calls for the increased inclusion of multi-modal and digital writing and rhetoric Comstock argues for an embodied pedagogy that values the substantial relations between writing and pedagogical care.</p>