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Comps Reading

Proposed Comps Areas

  1. Rhetoric & Composition
    1. Digital Rhetorics
  2. 20th Century Science Fiction
  3. Special Topic: Transhumanism

Area 1: Rhetoric & Composition

  • David Abram
    • The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
  • Aristotle
    • On Rhetoric X
  • St. Augustine
    • On Christian Doctrine
  • Wayne Booth
    • Rhetoric of Fiction X
    • The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication X
  • Cicero
  • Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa
  • Edward P.J. Corbett
  • Sharon Crowley
    • The Methodical Memory: Invention in Current-Traditional Rhetoric X
  • Isocrates
    • “Antidosis” Notes X
    • “Against the Sophist” X Notes
  • Diane Davis
  • Paul De Man
    • Allegories of Reading X
  • Terry Eagleton
    • “A Small History of Rhetoric” in Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism X
  • Kathryn Flannery
    • �Style as Cultural Capital.� The Emperor�s New Clothes. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh Press, 1995. X
  • David K. Glidden
    • “Epicurean prolepsis,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. 3:175-215, 1985. Notes X
  • Heraclitus
  • Sister Miriam Joseph
    • The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric X
  • George A. Kennedy
    • Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. 2nd Ed. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1999. X
  • Eric A. Havelock
    • The Literate Revolution in Greece
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
    • Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language Notes X
  • Walter J. Ong
    • Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology
    • Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Notes X
  • Plato
    • Gorgias X
    • Phaedrus X
  • Quinitilian
    • Institutio Oratorio. Trans. Donald Russell. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001.
  • Dennis Tedlock (trans.)
    • The Popol Vuh
  • Robert Anton Wilson
    • Cosmic Trigger, vol. 1 X
    • The Illuminatus! Trilogy X
  • Richard Whatley
    • Elements of Rhetoric Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and Persuasion with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
  • Richard Wilhelm (trans.)
    • The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

Area 1.1: Digital Rhetorics (Media Ecology?)

Area 2: 20th/21st Century Science Fiction

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Area 2.1: Fictions

  • Greg Bear
    • Blood Music X
  • Alfred Bester
    • The Stars My Destination X
  • William Burroughs
    • The Soft Machine X
    • The Ticket That Exploded X
    • Nova Express X
    • Ghost of Chance X
  • Octavia Butler
  • Pat Cadigan
    • Tea From an Empty Cup X
  • Philip K. Dick
    • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch X
    • Ubik X
    • A Scanner Darkly X
    • The Man In the High Castle X
    • VALIS X
  • Cory Doctorow
    • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom X
  • William Gibson
    • Neuromancer X
    • Count Zero X
    • Mona Lisa Overdrive X
    • Burning Chrome X
    • Pattern Recognition X
    • Spook Country X
  • Andrea Hairston
    • Mindscape
  • Joe Haldeman
  • Nalo Hopkinson
    • Brown Girl in the Ring
    • Midnight Robbers
  • Robert Heinlein
    • Starship Troopers X
  • Ken MacLeod
    • Cosmonaut Keep X
  • Chris Moriarty
    • Spin State X
    • Spin Control X
  • Richard K. Morgan
    • Altered Carbon X
    • Broken Angels X
    • Woken Furies X
  • Rudy Rucker
    • Postsingular X
  • Joanna Russ
    • The Female Man X
  • Dan Simmons
    • Hyperion X
    • The Fall of Hyperion X
  • Bruce Sterling
    • Schismatrix X
  • Neal Stephenson
    • The Diamond Age
    • Snow Crash X
    • Interface X
    • Anathem X
  • Charlie Stross
    • Iron Sunrise X
    • Singularity Sky X
    • Accelarando X
    • Glasshouse X
    • Halting State X
  • Theodore Sturgeon
    • More Than Human? X
  • Liz Williams
  • Bernard Wolfe
  • Vernor Vinge
    • Rainbow’s End X
    • Marooned in Realtime X

Area 2.2: Films

  • Various
    • “Neon Genesis Evangelion” X
  • “Akira” X
    • “Tetsuo: The Iron Man” X
    • “Videodrome” X
    • “Dog Star Man” X
    • “2001: A Space Odyssey” X
    • “Space is the Place” X
    • “Holy Mountain”
    • “Ghost in the Shell” X
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  • “Star Trek: TNG
    • “All Good Things…”
    • “Encounter At Far Point”
    • Traveler Episodes (Season 2, Season 7)

Area 2.3: Theory

  • Darko Suvin
    • “On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre”, College English 34:4 (1972): 372-82
  • Carl Freedman
    • Critical Theory & Science Fiction
  • Tom Moylan
    • Scraps of the Untainted
  • Fredric Jameson
    • Archeologies of the Future X
  • Candelaria Matthew (editor)
    • Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction

Area 3: Transhumanism

Area 3.1: General Theories of Transhumanism

  • Brian Alexander
    • Rapture X
  • Sri Aurobindo
    • Life Divine X
  • Henri Bergson
    • Creative Evolution
  • JD Bernal
  • Howard Bloom
    • Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century Notes X
  • David Bohm
    • Wholeness and the Implicate Order
  • Rodney Brooks
    • Flesh and Machines X
  • Vannevar Bush
  • Charles Darwin
    • The Descent of Man
  • Gilles Deleuze
    • Leibniz and the Fold
    • What Is Philosophy? (w/ Felix Guattari) (Chapter on Mind / Thought) X
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    • Phenomenon of Man X
    • Future of Man X
  • Richard Doyle
    • On Beyond Living X
    • Wetwares
  • Eric K. Drexler
  • Kodwo Eshun
    • More Brilliant Than the Sun X
  • Richard P. Feynman
  • Mary Flanagan + Austin Booth (eds.)
    • ReLoad: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture
  • Ludwik Fleck
    • Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact X
  • Francis Fukuyama
  • Buckminster Fuller
    • “Inexorable Evolution”
  • Felix Guattari
  • Gary Genosko
    • Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction
  • Stephen S. Hall
    • Merchants of Immortality
  • N. Katherine Hayles
    • How We Became Posthuman Notes X
  • Heather J. Hicks
  • Aldous Huxley
    • _Ape and Essence_Notes X
  • Julian Huxley
  • Philip Kuberski
    • Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory After Modernism Notes X
  • Raymond Kurzweil
    • The Singularity Is Near X
    • Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (w/ Terry Grossman)
  • Timothy Leary
    • Changing My Mind, Among Others (Notes)
    • Chaos and Cyberculture
  • Gottfried Leibniz
    • The Monadology
  • Wyndham Lewis
    • America and Cosmic Man X
  • Pierre Levy
    • Collective Intelligence Notes X
    • Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age Notes X
  • John Lilly
    • The Scientist
    • Programming the Human Biocomputer
  • Terrence & Dennis McKenna
    • The Invisible Landscape X
  • Lynne McTaggert
    • The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe X
  • C. Lloyd Morgan
  • Daniel Pinchbeck
    • 2012: The Return of Quetzcoatl X
  • F. David Peat
    • Synchronicity: The Bridge Between Matter and Mind
  • K.D. Sethna
    • Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo – A Focus On Fundamentals Notes X
  • Clay Shirky
    • Here Comes Everybody X
  • Allan Stoekl
    • Bataille’s Peak X
  • Frederick Taylor
    • The Principles of Scientific Management
  • Frank Tipler
    • The Physics of Immortality X
  • Jakob von Uexkull
    • “A Stroll Through the World of Animals and Man” X
  • Genevieve Vaughn
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • Vladimir Vernadsky
  • Arthur M. Young
    • Consciousness and Reality: The Human Pivot Point
    • The Reflexive Universe: Evolution of Consciousness
  • Simon Young
    • Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto X

Area 3.2: Collectivity


Number of Items

  • Area 1: Rhetoric & Composition: 65 Books/Articles (36 Read)
    • Area 1.1: Digital Rhetorics (Media Ecology?): 34 Books/Articles (15 Read)
  • Area 2: 20th/21st Century Science Fiction: 80 Books/Articles (66 Read)
    • Area 2.1: Fictions: 64 Books/Articles (58 Read)
    • Area 2.2: Films: 11 Books/Articles (7 Read)
    • Area 2.3: Theory: 5 Books/Articles (1 Read)
  • Area 3: Transhumanism: 65 Books/Articles (34 Read)
    • Area 3.1: General Theories of Transhumanism: 58 Books/Articles (30 Read)
    • Area 3.2: Collectivity: 7 Books/Articles (4 Read)

Total Books: 210 (Read 136)