Introduction This post is an extension of my previous work on Rodolphe Töpffer and the rhetorical histories of new media practices (Inventing Comics), and marks the start of two book-length projects: (1) a translation of Henri Saint-Simon’s (with Olinde Rodrigues) 1825 essay recognized as one of the first references to the literary and artistic vanguard, a term consciously adopted from the French military as a metaphor for a new social and institutional (academic) order for post-industrial societies; and (2) a monograph growing out of Töpffer’s and Saint-Simon’s work, tentatively titled, Rhetoric and the Humanities in an Electrate University. These two…
Author: Kim Lacey
Sergio C. Figueiredo
Kim Lacey is an Associate Professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University. Her research interests include digital rhetoric, artificial intelligence, and memory studies.