http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 22 May 2013 11:19:10 PDT Wed, 22 May 2013 11:19:10 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642217 Dr. Morton was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 4th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviewsTimothy Morton is a Professor of English at UC Davis, where he teaches literature and ecology, Romantic-period literature, and literary theory. Dr. Morton’s interests include literature and the environment, ecotheory, philosophy, biology, physical sciences, literary theory, food studies, sound and music, materialism, poetics, Romanticism, Buddhism, and the eighteenth century. In addition to being a well-known blogger, he has published nine books and sixty essays – most notably The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, April 2010) and Ecology Without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007; paperback 2009). Dr. Morton is part of the movement known as Object-Oriented Ontology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643518 Dr. Briggle was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 4th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Adam Briggle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas, where he specializes and teaches courses in Bioethics, Environmental Studies and the Philosophy of Technology. His areas of research interest and expertise are reflected in his book, A Rich Bioethics Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643647 Dr. Borgmann was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 16th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ Albert Borgmann is an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana. He has an MA in literature from the University of Illinois (Urbana) and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Munich (Germany). Since 1970 he has taught at the University of Montana. His special area is the philosophy of society and culture with particular emphasis on technology. Among his publications are Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life (University of Chicago Press, 1984), Crossing the Postmodern Divide (University of Chicago Press, 1992), Holding on to Reality: the Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (University of Chicago Press, 1999), Power Failure (2003), and Real American Ethics (2006). http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=694561 © Alex Reid and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. Reid was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on September 20th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series: http://figureground.ca/interviews/scholarly-series/Dr. Alex Reid earned hi PhD from SUNY Albany in Writing, Teaching, and Criticism in 1997. Since then he’s taught at Georgia Tech, Penn State, SUNY Cortland, and now at the University of Buffalo. He studies digital media networks with a particular interest in their operation within humanities pedagogy and scholarship. His book, The Two Virtuals: Composition and New Media, examines the intersection of technologies of virtual reality with philosophies of the virtual and considers how bringing these two discourses together offers insight into teaching writing. He is co-editor of Design Discourse, a collection of essays on the construction of technical and professional writing curriculum. He has also published articles in several journals and book collections. His primary blog, Digital Digs (www.alex-reid.net), deals with developments in new media, rhetoric, and higher education. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=640875 Dr. Feenberg was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 18th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series.Andrew Feenberg is Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Applied Communication and Technology Lab. He has also taught for many years in the Philosophy Department at San Diego State University, and at Duke University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, the Universities of California, San Diego and Irvine, the Sorbonne, the University of Paris-Dauphine, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and the University of Tokyo and the University of Brasilia. He is the author of Lukacs, Marx and the Sources of Critical Theory (Rowman and Littlefield, 1981; Oxford University Press, 1986), Critical Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991), Alternative Modernity (University of California Press, 1995), and Questioning Technology (Routledge, 1999). A second edition of Critical Theory of Technology appeared with Oxford in 2002 under the title Transforming Technology. Heidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History appeared in 2005 with Routledge. Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity appeared with MIT Press in 2010. Translations of several of these books are available. Dr. Feenberg is also co-editor of Marcuse: Critical Theory and the Promise of Utopia (Bergin and Garvey Press, 1987), Technology and the Politics of Knowledge (Indiana University Press, 1995), Modernity and Technology (MIT Press, 2003), and Community in the Digital Age (Rowman and Littlefield, 2004). His co-authored book on the French May Events of 1968 appeared in 2001 with SUNY Press under the title When Poetry Ruled the Streets. With William Leiss, Feenberg has edited a collection entitled The Essential Marcuse published by Beacon Press. A book on Feenberg’s philosophy of technology entitled Democratizing Technology, appeared in 2006. Dr. Feenberg is currently studying online education on a grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). In this exclusive interview with Figure/Ground, Professor Feenberg talks about Marcuse, Heidegger, McLuhan and the philosophy of technology. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642841 Professor Blair was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on March 11th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Ann Blair is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, where she specializes in Early Modern France, Early Modern European, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of the Book and History of Science. Her interests include the history of the book and of education, the history of the disciplines and of scholarship, early modern natural philosophy and its interactions with religion. Her most recent book is Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643506 Dr. B. W. Powe was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on October 18th, 2010 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/ B. W. Powe is a Canadian author and teacher. Lived in Toronto from 1959 until 1996; he attended York University for English studies where in 1977 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Powe received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1981; he studied there with Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. He received his Ph.D. from York University in October 2009. He was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor of Literature at York in July 2010. His Ph.D is on Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye, their crossings in history, their agon and complementarity (their conflicts and harmonies), and the stirring alchemy of their thought. He currently teaches English in the Department of English at York University. His courses there have included Visionary Literature: from Hildegard von Bingen and Dante to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Two Canadian Theorists. He continues to teach the first year introduction to literature course. B. W. Powe is also a prolific author: his work has been profiled on CBC-TV, TVO, CITY-TV, Bravo-TV, ACCESS and CTV. His novel, Outage, was listed as one of the best ten novels of the year by Philip Marchand in The Toronto Star, in 1995/96; it was also an editor’s choice novel in the Globe & Mail in 1995. His book, A Tremendous Canada of Light, was selected as a notable book of the year by the Globe and Mail in 1993. His book of poems, The Unsaid Passing, was shortlisted for The ReLit Prize in 2006. His novella, These Shadows Remain: A Fable, is to be published in the winter of 2010 by Guernica. His writings have been translated into French by Derrick de Kerckhove and Michelle Tisseyre. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=695231 © Ben McCorkle and Figure/Ground CommunicationDr. McCorkle was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on August 24th, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground scholarly interview series: http://figureground.ca/interviews/scholarly-series/Ben McCorkle is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University at Marion, where he teaches courses on composition, the history and theory of rhetoric, and digital media production. He is the author of the book Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse: A Cross-Historical Study, published by Southern Illinois University Press. He has also published essays in various journals and edited collections, including Computers and Composition Online, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and Composition Studies. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=642803 Dr. Malin was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on July 12th, 2011 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Brent Malin is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh, where he specializes in media history, theory, and criticism with a focus in cultural studies and critical theory. His work explores how various popular cultural artifacts suggest particular understandings of identity and the implications of these understandings for questions of cultural power and citizenship. Malin has examined such contemporary topics as the construction of masculinity during the Clinton era, as well as earlier issues such as the ideologies of whiteness and middle-class distinction that accompanied the early 20th century stereoscope. Other recent work has focused on the ways in which institutional, scientific, and journalistic discourses on technology have impacted ideas about pleasure, emotion, and identity in the United States—examining such varied technologies as the steel guitar and the psycho-galvanometer. Malin has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Iowa, St. Olaf College, Allegheny College, and San Francisco State University. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=643491 Dr. Gronbeck was interviewed by Laureano Ralon on February 23rd, 2012 as part of the Figure/Ground Communication scholarly interview series: http://www.figureground.ca/interviews/Dr. Bruce Gronbeck is A. Craig Baird Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) of Public Address, Television and Politics, Rhetoric and Media Studies at the University of Iowa. He works primarily in the area of rhetorical and media studies, with particular interests in contemporary television and politics. He teaches and writes about American cultural studies and the evolution of rhetorical thought, especially from the 18th century to the present.