As a master’s student in my introductory theory course, I became particularly enamored by Roland Barthes’s essay “Why I Love Benveniste.” At the end of the essay, Barthes says that Working with him, with his texts […],we always recognize the generosity of a man who seems to listen to the reader and to lend him […]
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Assistant Professor of English
Washington State University
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Pullman, WA 99164-5020
roger.whitson [at] wsu [dot] edu
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New and Forthcoming Books

Appearances:
Forthcoming
11/2-5: NAVSA2016
"Steampunk as Posthuman Articulation Work in the Projects of Jake Von Slatt"
8/11-14: NASSR 2016
“There is No William Blake: Twitterbots, Artificial Intelligences, and Posthuman Conditions”
Recent:
11/2-3: Union College
"Maker Culture: Histories, Politics, Applications."
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