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Thinking Through Worlds Fair: Evolutionary Rhetoric

M. A. Syverson

University of Texas at Austin

References

Alexander, Christopher. (1964). Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Alexander, Christopher. (1979).The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press.

Alexander, Christopher, Ishikawa, Sara., & Silverstein, Murray. (1977). A Pattern Language. New York: Oxford University Press.

Hutchins, Edwin. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Latour, Bruno. (1986). Visualization and Cognition: Thinking with the Eyes and Hands, Knowledge and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present (Vol. 6, pp. 1-40): JAI Press.

Sano, Darrell. (1996). Designing large-scale web sites : a visual design methodology. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

URLs for Resources Mentioned

Ants javascripts: Created by Mike Hall (MHall75819@aol.com) and archived at http://javascript.internet.com

Another excellent javascript archive is http://www.javascripts.com

An excellent resource for searching for images, sound, and video is http://www.scour.net

Information about Phil Agre's newsletter Red Rock Eater, can be found at http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html

Opening theme music for Worlds Fair is "Dragon Dance," from the album Sophistication, by Galbatron. See http://www.mp3.com/Galbatron

Other resources used for the Worlds Fair project are listed at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/worldsfair/credits.html

Worlds Fair contributors are listed at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/worldsfair/participants.html

Biographical Note for M. A. Syverson

Margaret Syverson is the Director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab and an associate professor in the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, The Wealth of Reality: An Ecology of Composition, was recently published by Southern Illinois Press. She is president of the Board of Directors for the Center for Language in Learning, and editor of Computers and Composition Journal’s online site (www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ccjrnl). Her work with the Online Learning Record, a portfolio-based assessment system (www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr), has been supported through a CAETI grant, support from the Liberal Arts College at UT, and a Carnegie Scholars Award. Additional information about Dr. Syverson may be found at www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson.

Reprinted from Computers and Composition Journal, vol 18, M. A. Syverson, "Thinking Through Worlds Fair: Evolutionary Rhetoric," pp. xx-xxx, Copyright 2001, with permission from Elsevier Science. Single copies of the article can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal research and study.