Virginia Kuhn

2013

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 17.2 

Metonymy stems from my presentation for the 2012 Modern Language Association annual conference, for the panel, "MoMLA: From Panel to Gallery," organized and chaired by Victor "Vito" Vitanza. The eight revised videos of the panel will form a webtext for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy. The webtext is a 2.0 version of the earlier webtext, From Gallery to Webtext, published in the 2008 special Manifesto issue of Kairos (12.3).

The potentialities of the digital require us to radically reimagine the graphic facet of written language, even as pictures become semiotic units of meaning that can be cut up and pieced back together in a continuous metonymic stream that turns representation on its eye, bearing no indexical relationship to the world. In this environment, narrative breaks down, sovereignty is in unrelenting flux, a constant (partial) dialogue between individuals and institutions. Our digital practices affiliate and separate; we image ourselves by naming our parts.

Identity in w/holes; no longer metaphoric, the "I am" won't do. Lone identities. On loan. All the lonely people.The traditional artifacts don't translate. Invigorate.

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