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David B. Landes DavidBLandes@gmail.com |
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Office Office Hours Mailbox |
Tue 11-1 and
by appointment 1117 Cathedral of
Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260 |
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Doctoral student in Rhetoric, Media, and Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. |
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Academic Interests:
Rhetorical theory, media studies, culture and communication technology, attention economy,
language
theory, improvisation. |
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Prospective Project:
Communication always exchanges on the currency of human attention, the cognitive
capital of the information age.
But today’s noisy mediascape and
increasingly technical society also disfigure the age-old virtue of focus thought necessary for individual
well-being and for deliberative democracy.
I am developing theoretical accounts of how attention structures
communication and how communication
structures attention. I emphasize
attention’s dialogic character as a constant conversation of mind and
matter—notoriously susceptible to rhetorical artistry—that steers our deepest
capacities for autonomy, humanity, and experience. Attending creatively to attention itself
turns the eye back onto itself and promises to help equip us against the
mounting forces of mental and social disintegration within modernity’s intensifying maelstrom of the
senses. |
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Experience
Related Projects
Consultant
for UpTo Know Good
Invited
Speaker on Communication in Government, University, Non-Profit, and For-Profit
Organizations
Consultant
for Zola Design
Consultant
for Kullu Valley Bike Project
Tech/SEO
Consultant for Emergency
University online training courses
SEO
Consultant for Procore
construction management software
Marketing
Consultant for The Paper Doctors student editing service
Creator
of UC Santa Barbara’s first
writing and rhetoric major
Survivor
of Project
Zero
Active
Musician and Teacher
Sample Clips and Films
Documentary: A Bingo Bus Dir. Andy Jurgensen
Comedy: Nuts
Dir. Clayton Sakoda
Drama: Can’t
You See? Dir. Alexander Koehne
Teaching:
Rhetorical Process: Recitation “Premembrances”
(2010)
COMMRC 0520 Public Speaking
information and resources (2007-2008)