Bousquet,+Marc,+Tony+Scott,+and+Leo+Parascondola.+Tenured+Bosses+and+Disposable+Teachers

Bousquet--"Composition as a Management Science"
 * Critiques Porter, et al (Who won a Braddock Award) for utilizing 'Hero WPA' narrative and focusing on individual struggle within power instead of collective or labor struggle (16-17)
 * EMO (Education Management Organization)--like HMO--with Comp represeting the "//ideal labor relation of the management university//" (19)
 * "The installation of mangerialism as the core subjectivity of the discipline of rhetoric and composition is therefore not so much an indicator of the field's succes as evidence of its particular susceptibility, the very terms of its intellectual evolution intertwined with the university's accelerated move toward coprorate partnership, executive control, and acceptance of profitability and accumulation as values in decision making" (23)
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 * This essay makes me think a lot about the role of the WCD--managing over a series of undergraduate workers, and the need for Rhet Comp Grad Students to get teaching experience, and the role of collective agency, and especially for my Rhet of Social movements exam, the argument that Bousquet frames between pragmatism and the rhetoric used by collectives that is termed "leftist idealism" and the power of that type of rhetoric vs. "pleasing the prince" rhetoric. Perhaps I can use my reading in RSM to complicate Bousquet's argument. This could be an interesting project idea....

Ohmann--Citizenship and Literacy Work: Thoughts Without a Conclusion
 * We tend to use the idea that 'democracy isn't possible without a literate citizenship' as a justification for what we do in Comp

Reviewed by Bruce Horner in CCC 56.2 (Dec 2004)