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Tool Talk about the Title
"Kairotic Technologization"
What follows is an
explication of this article's title, "Kairotic
Technologization" in terms of Kenneth Burke's theory of
"Entitlement." As Burke explains, a good title functions as
an abbreviation for the materials entitled:
. . . the
overall title could be said to be the infolding of all
the details, or the details could be treated as the
exfoliation-in-time of the eternal now that was contained
in the rational seminality of the title. (Language as
Symbolic Action, 370)
This page provides
links to the "rational seeds" of "Kairotic Technologization"
in a rather playful spirit--in terms of "tool talk,"
offered here as an illustration of the whimsical attitude
towards tools presented in the "Personal
Identity"
portion of this hypertext. With apologies for the
substitution of a mechanical for Burke's organic metaphor,
this page takes apart/rebuilds the title by linking its
infolded concepts to the main sections of the hypertext.
Readers desiring a
more direct mode of navigation are advised to use the
article's formal introduction
and the header/footer tables on each page, which contain all
the links below, (with the exception of the
"Angelo
says"
commentary on the Americanization of Emily), and
provide a more orderly mode of "exfoliating" the "eternal
now" of "Kairotic Technologization."
Tool
Talk about the Title,
"Kairotic Technologization"
There are at least five tools needed
to understand the title, "Kairotic
Technologization":
- By "kairotic" the reader is asked
to consider not only the "intersections" between, but
also the sprawl
among the three massive
domains of the journal, Kairos--rhetoric,
technology, and pedagogy--as they were integrated,
disintegrated, and lived in the "perfect
arena" of the "Teaching of
Writing" class, English/Education 356/456 at Saint Xavier
University, 2000-2002.
- By "kairotic" the reader is
invited to hear the word "chaotic."
- Despite the long tradition in
rhetoric equating communication with "love," the reader
is NOT invited to hear the word "erotic" in "kairotic,"
particularly as the "illicit"
details of the
student-faculty collaboration are entered into the
record.
- "Technologization" may be defined
simply as the addition of technological components to
one's pedagogy; on a larger scale it suggests the
system
building of tools and
purposes; in its broadest sense, it spreads to the whole
"dirty"
collection of causes and effects of the technology
infusion.
- As a partial remedy for the
ugliness of the word, "technologization,"
Angelo
says: "I've never seen the
movie The Americanization of Emily, but I do have
the soundtrack featuring Frank Sinatra. And throughout
the composition of this article, while considering the
possible title, 'The Technologization of English 356,'
I've heard a resonance with the movie title, and in
particular, I've heard the opening bars of 'Emily'
('Emily, Emily, has the murmuring sound of
May. . .'). If the dulcet tones of the song
soothe the jangle of 'technologization,' by all means
feel free to use them!"
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