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Breaking Up (at) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laughter

by D. Diane Davis. 318 pgs.

Contributors:

   D. Diane Davis

Publisher:

   Southern Illinois University Press

Place of Publication:

  Carbondale, IL  

Publication Year:

  2000

Subjects:

Feminist Theory, English Language--Rhetoric--Study And Teaching--Psychological Aspects, English Language--Rhetoric--Study And Teaching--Social Aspects, Report Writing--Study And Teaching--Psychological Aspects, Report Writing--Study And Teaching--Social Aspects, Laughter--Psychological Aspects, Laughter--Physiological Aspects, Laughter--Social Aspects

	CONTENTS
	Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory Series	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Preambulatory Emissions: A Prefatory Post-Script on Where We Will Have Gone	1
1.	Physiological Laughter: The Subject Convulsed	21
	Potential Responses to the Paradox	24
	Gorgian Kairos	26
	Kairotic Laughter	29
	Idealism--Refusals to Respond	30
	Modernism--A Too Hopeful Response	40
	Cynicism--A Nihilistic Response	47
	Kynicism--An/Other Positive (cum Negative) Response	52
	Affirmation--A Comedic Response	56
	An Affirmative Alliance	66
2.	Discursive Laughter: Composition Convulsed	69
	Bespeaking the Speaker: Agency and Authorship Re/Visited	73
	The Hail Breaks Down/Up; Or, Adding a Para to the Dissoi Logoi	81
	Breaking Up [with] Language; Or, Toward an Ethics of Decision for the "Polyethoi"	104
	Deciding for/with Laughter--A Posthumanist Ethics	112
	Excursus. Being-Hard/Wired: Cyburbian Convulsions	116
	Being-on-Language, Again	118
	Being-on-Technology	118
	Being-in-Cyburbia	122
	Cyburbian Power Struggles	125
	Deadly Simulations--Cyborg Writing	133
	3. A Rhetoric of Laughter for Feminist Politics	136
	Section 1: The Back-Spin	136
	Prefatory Remarks on Feminist Politics and Negative Deconstructions	140
	(Self) Re/Presentation, Take One--The Fight for Subjectivity	141
	Take Two--Forget Re/Presentation and the "Fight"	149
	Feminism(s) and/in Postmodernism(s)	156
	Section 2: A Thinking of Futurity	162
	The Question Concerning Subversion	164
	Thinking the Unthinkable--"Let's Get Out of Here!"	165
	Overflowing God--A Liquidation of Solidifications	166
	Of Drag Queens and Hermaphrodites--The Joys of Gender-Sliding	168
	Of Hymens and Hesitations--Evoking "Woman" Other/Wise	171
	Of "Woman" and Politics--Community of An/Other Kind	179
	Community in Spasms--A Rhetoric of Laughter for Feminist Politics	198
	4. A Rhetoric of Laughter for Composition Pedagogy	209
	Feminist Composition Pedagogies--In (Their) Brief(s)	213
	The Pharce of the Phallic Pheminine--A Critique, in Brief(s)	217
	Supposing We Don't Know--Turning Teaching "Arse Upwards"	223
	"The Sujet Suppositaire"--Pedagogical Insertions and Intrusions	226
	In the Name of Writing: (De)Compos(t)ing the Prosthetic Composition Course	228
	Writing Re-Vived: Beyond the "White Terror of Truth"	235
	Forget Empowerment--Becoming-Imperceptible	250
	A(nother) Post-Script on Laughter and Futurity	254
	Notes	261
	Works Cited	291
	Index	307

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