Uncovering poiesis : the role of production in technical communication, work, and public life

This dissertation is a report on a collaborative project between the Computer Science and the Humanities Departments to develop case studies that focus on issues of communication in the workplace, and the results of their use in the classroom. My argument is that case study teaching simulates real-world experience in a meaningful way, essentially developing a teachable way of developing phronesis, the reasoned capacity to act for the good in public. In addition, it can be read as a "how-to" guide for educators who may wish to construct their own case studies. To that end, I have included a discussion of the ethnographic methodologies employed, and how it was adapted to our more pragmatic ends. Finally, I present my overarching argument for a new appraisal of the concept of techné. This reappraisal emphasizes its productive activity, poiesis, rather than focusing on its knowledge as has been the case in the past. I propose that focusing on the telos, the end outside the production, contributes to the diminishment, if not complete foreclosure, of a rich concept of techné.

Personality in politics; a study of three types in American public life,

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Napoleon, an explanation of his theories of government; an avowal of the motives that actuated his public life;

The "Manuscrit venu de Sainte Héléne" and an English translation, "Manuscript transmitted from St. Helena" were first published anoymously, London, John Murray, 1817: a number of editions and translation in many languages have appeared since.

Maxims and opinions of Field-Marshal, His Grace, the Duke of Wellington : selected from his writings and speeches during a public life of more than half a century; with a biographical memoir /

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Contemporary portraits; men of my day in public life,

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Henry Irving. A short account of his public life ...

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Notes and marginalia, illustrative of the public life and works of Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate. /

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The public life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839.

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The public life of the Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G., etc., etc.,

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Life in ancient Athens; the social and public life of a classical Athenian from day to day,

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Life and letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot, first earl of Minto, from 1751 to 1806, when his public life in Europe was closed by his appointment to the vice-royalty of India.

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Memorials of the public life and character of the Rt. Hon. James Oswald of Dunnikier contained in a correspondence with some of the most distinguished men of the last century.

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The life of Miss Anne Catley, celebrated singing performer of the last century : including an account of her introduction to public life, her professional engagements in London and Dublin, and her various adventuresand intrigues.

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Chapters from Imperial Washington: The story of American public life from 1870 to 1920,

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Graphic satire and public life in the age of terror

This paper investigates media representations of international insecurity through a selection of newspaper cartoons from some of the major daily Australian broadsheets. Since 2001, cartoonists such as Bruce Petty, John Spooner and Bill Leak (in The Age and The Australian) have provided an ongoing and vehement critique of the Australian government’s policies of ‘border protection’, the ‘war on terror’ and the words of mass distraction associated with Australia joining the war in Iraq. Cartoonists are often said to represent the ‘citizen’s perspective’ of public life through their graphic satire on the editorial pages of our daily newspapers. Increasingly, they can also be seen to be fulfilling the role of public intellectuals, defined by Richard A. Posner as ‘someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments and corporations’. Cartoonists enjoy an independence and freedom from censorship that is rarely extended to their journalistic colleagues in the print media and it is this independence that is the vital component in their being categorised as public intellectuals. Their role is to ‘question over and over again what is postulated as self-evident, to disturb people’s mental habits, to dissipate what is familiar and accepted, to re-examine rules and institutions’ (Posner, 2003: 31). With this useful — if generalised — definition in mind, the paper considers how cartoonists have contributed to debates concerning international insecurity in public life since 2001.