Torture and Absolution: The Shadow Twin Towers of Atro/City

  • Cynthia Haynes
Keywords: Social Theory, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critique, Digital Society, Sociology, Scholarly Journal, Peer reviewed journal, Ben Agger, Tim Luke

Author Biography

Cynthia Haynes
Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Associate Professor of English at Clemson University. She teaches in the Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design (RCID) PhD program and the Masters in Professional Communication (MAPC) program. Haynes has developed courses in "Serious Design", "Rhetoric, War, and Terrorism," "Digital Rhetorics," "Rhetoric and Philosophy in Conflict," among others, and regularly teaches the graduate training seminar in Composition Theory and Pedagogy for teaching assistants. Her publications have appeared in JAC, Pre/Text, Games and Culture, and numerous edited collections. With Jan Rune Holmevik, she co-created Lingua MOO in 1995 and co-edited High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs (University of Michigan Press, 2nd ed. 2001), as well as MOOniversity: A Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments (2000). At present she is working on her book, Beta Rhetoric: Deconstruction, Technology, and the Politics of Infowar.
Published
2019-05-29