Connections between neuroscience, rhetoric, and writing: a plastic pedagogy for the digital age - 6

This text argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect and writing pedagogy.

Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy, Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect, attention and plasticity.

In considering the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the neurobiology, this volume both theorises and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching writing in a digital age characterised by the erosion of wonder and pervasive disaffection.