English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

Tuesday, February 13

• Read The Economics of Attention by Richard Lanham, pp. xi-129. Suggested Prompt: Address any of the questions that Lanham asks at the bottom of page 21 regarding the consequences of the new economy of attention, particularly as it implicates rhetoric.

Thursday, February 15

• Read the Introduction to Enculturation's special issue on visual rhetoric by David Blakesley and Collin Brooke.
• Read two additional pieces in this collection (you choose).