TY - JOUR
T1 - Technical Communication as Assemblage
AU - Johnson-Eilola, Johndan
AU - Selber, Stuart A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank two anonymous reviewers, Rebecca Walton, and her editorial team for their invaluable help with this article. Thanks as well to all of the research participants quoted and to Daved Barry and Eric York for valuable feedback on early versions of this work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article offers a theoretical intervention into the work on posthumanism in technical and professional communication (TPC), an intervention that encourages the field to recognize relationships between objects and users in different ways. Our intervention draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to reimagine how TPC tends to think about the concept of assemblage. We apply this other view in makerspaces, illustrating what it buys us for practice and theory in complex sociotechnical contexts.
AB - This article offers a theoretical intervention into the work on posthumanism in technical and professional communication (TPC), an intervention that encourages the field to recognize relationships between objects and users in different ways. Our intervention draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari to reimagine how TPC tends to think about the concept of assemblage. We apply this other view in makerspaces, illustrating what it buys us for practice and theory in complex sociotechnical contexts.
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U2 - 10.1080/10572252.2022.2036815
DO - 10.1080/10572252.2022.2036815
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126067819
SN - 1057-2252
VL - 32
SP - 79
EP - 97
JO - Technical Communication Quarterly
JF - Technical Communication Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -