What is Metis?

Authors

  • Jay Timothy Dolmage University of Waterloo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i1.7224

Keywords:

rhetoric, writing studies, metis, embodiment, teaching, pedagogy

Abstract

Rhetoricians have come to understand that when we look through rhetorical history for what is most tense and polarizing, we most often come to stories about the body. Wherever we find the body rhetorically contested, and wherever we find rhetorical contestation about the body's role in meaning-making, we see intensely fraught negotiations. This should matter very much to those of us invested in disability studies work. In the last decade, some excellent rhetoricians have done this critical work. In this special issue, some excellent rhetoricians continue this critical work, bringing together rhetoric, writing studies, and disability studies – and the engine and the theme of this work is metis, cunning and adaptive intelligence. But what is metis, and why should it matter to disability studies?

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Published

2020-03-11

How to Cite

Dolmage, J. T. (2020). What is Metis?. Disability Studies Quarterly, 40(1). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v40i1.7224

Issue

Section

Special Section on Metis