I'd like to announce publication of a special project for 9/11 and the rhet/comp community. The project is entitled "The Chora of the Twin Towers" and has been published on 9/11/11 at Enculturation by Robert Leston (NYC College of Tech), Geof Carter (Saginaw Valley State), and Sarah Arroyo (California State Long Beach).

It will occupy Enculturation as the only featured project for the week following 9/11. After the first week, it will be featured as the lead project in the next issue.

Abstract:

At some point, using “syllabi” as the plural of “syllabus” started to bother me.

Being “correct” about egg-headed words such as phenomenon/phenomena or criterion/criteria is among the most visible markers of education and class — and insufferable pedantry.

For instance, those who wear tinfoil hats while blogging from their parents’ basements are likely to wave their beer bottles and complain “The media is out to get me,” while those working in the media are likely to set down their wine glasses and sniff, “Actually, the media are out to get you.”

In a sensational interview with Russian Today, “trends analyst” Gerald Celente makes several predictions about the near future. Some of the predictions are safe bets for any professional prognosticator, such as that the market for locally grown produce will soar in the midst of increasingly frequent recalls of mass produced food. However, when Celente focuses his crystal ball on the political furor over Wikileaks, we find him making the rather alarming claim that a devastating cyber war is just on the horizon.

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