Tyler S Rife
Biographic Data
| ID | 6609865 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler S Rife |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rife |
| SIGNATURE | RIFE T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Dis)entangling the ontopolitics of ecological theorizing for critical communication
Amidst the Anthropocene, the contentious term given to our planetary epoch defined by human domination over earth systems, this essay will offer a series of explorations that illustrate the potentialities between critical communication theorizing and ecological thought. To help articulate this convergence, I organize my essay around the thematic figuration of “threads” to constellate an ongoing effort by scholars in and beyond the communication d…
Queering Dystopia: The Last of Us Part II 's Troubled Vision of Anarcho-Socialism
You wake up to a pounding at the door to match your pounding headache.1 It's your friend Jesse to tell you that you're already running late for patrol duty, and some clickers have been spotted in an abandoned suburb just outside the perimeter. On your way to grab your things, Jesse confronts you about kissing his ex-girlfriend Dina last night. Stumbling through a defense—She kissed me. It was just Dina being Dina. She didn't mean anything by it—h…
Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1974: The surveillance imaginary of the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union Campaign for privacy awareness
Exorcising heteronormative trauma with The ConVersion: Queer collaboration in (autoethno)graphic performance
Depression (re)cycling: Geotraumatic performance & other cosmic plot holes
While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, I draw upon a method of collage to demonstrate how "plot holes" between critical autoethnography, visual art, poetry, and speculative theorizing help reflect my ecology of depression. Theoretically cohering the performance is geotrauma, which traces aff…
Inner monologues of a newbie CCPer
Our identities as critical educators are at odds with the hierarchy performatively enforcing the banking model of education. We understand the classroom as a political site where we labor to envision and perform anti-oppression communication. This pedagogical labor reflexively and necessarily unravels students at the edge of their/our intersectional privileges and disadvantages. In this piece, we use performance to reflexively interrogate and dev…
Against the grain
This agenda-setting theory essay offers a collaborative response to Sprague, J. (1992). Expanding the research agenda for instructional communication: Raising some unasked questions. Communication Education, 41(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634529209378867 early theorizing on critical approaches to communication pedagogy, developing it to account not only for critical developments since but also to the political precarity increasingly organ…
Melting mutating territory
This poem imagines the mass metanoic shift required to incite revolution as dispersing through a form of critical consciousness. As the “idea” spreads, ontologies largely sculpted by interlocking structures of oppression, such as whiteness, colonialism, and capitalism, shift into more liberatory and ecological ontologies. Partially inspired by my own ongoing processes of (un)learning through engagement with critical thought and non-normative epis…
Scaling the Necropolitical Anthropocene
In this essay, I demonstrate how the ecological concept of “scaling” carries potential to animate critical logics in the Anthropocene. I argue that scaling can expose unexpected linkages across space and time that help to denaturalize particular ecological formations as entangled, rather than separate. I demonstrate the critical ecological potential of scaling by performing it rhizomatically, weaving across scales of space and time while juxtapos…
Exorcising heteronormative trauma with The ConVersion: Queer collaboration in (autoethno)graphic performance
Depression (re)cycling: Geotraumatic performance & other cosmic plot holes
While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, I draw upon a method of collage to demonstrate how "plot holes" between critical autoethnography, visual art, poetry, and speculative theorizing help reflect my ecology of depression. Theoretically cohering the performance is geotrauma, which traces aff…
Scaling the Necropolitical Anthropocene
In this essay, I demonstrate how the ecological concept of “scaling” carries potential to animate critical logics in the Anthropocene. I argue that scaling can expose unexpected linkages across space and time that help to denaturalize particular ecological formations as entangled, rather than separate. I demonstrate the critical ecological potential of scaling by performing it rhizomatically, weaving across scales of space and time while juxtapos…
Melting mutating territory
This poem imagines the mass metanoic shift required to incite revolution as dispersing through a form of critical consciousness. As the “idea” spreads, ontologies largely sculpted by interlocking structures of oppression, such as whiteness, colonialism, and capitalism, shift into more liberatory and ecological ontologies. Partially inspired by my own ongoing processes of (un)learning through engagement with critical thought and non-normative epis…
Against the grain
This agenda-setting theory essay offers a collaborative response to Sprague, J. (1992). Expanding the research agenda for instructional communication: Raising some unasked questions. Communication Education, 41(1), 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634529209378867 early theorizing on critical approaches to communication pedagogy, developing it to account not only for critical developments since but also to the political precarity increasingly organ…
Inner monologues of a newbie CCPer
Our identities as critical educators are at odds with the hierarchy performatively enforcing the banking model of education. We understand the classroom as a political site where we labor to envision and perform anti-oppression communication. This pedagogical labor reflexively and necessarily unravels students at the edge of their/our intersectional privileges and disadvantages. In this piece, we use performance to reflexively interrogate and dev…
(Dis)entangling the ontopolitics of ecological theorizing for critical communication
Amidst the Anthropocene, the contentious term given to our planetary epoch defined by human domination over earth systems, this essay will offer a series of explorations that illustrate the potentialities between critical communication theorizing and ecological thought. To help articulate this convergence, I organize my essay around the thematic figuration of “threads” to constellate an ongoing effort by scholars in and beyond the communication d…
Queering Dystopia: The Last of Us Part II 's Troubled Vision of Anarcho-Socialism
You wake up to a pounding at the door to match your pounding headache.1 It's your friend Jesse to tell you that you're already running late for patrol duty, and some clickers have been spotted in an abandoned suburb just outside the perimeter. On your way to grab your things, Jesse confronts you about kissing his ex-girlfriend Dina last night. Stumbling through a defense—She kissed me. It was just Dina being Dina. She didn't mean anything by it—h…
Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1974: The surveillance imaginary of the New Mexico Civil Liberties Union Campaign for privacy awareness
Exorcising heteronormative trauma with The ConVersion: Queer collaboration in (autoethno)graphic performance
Depression (re)cycling: Geotraumatic performance & other cosmic plot holes
While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, I draw upon a method of collage to demonstrate how "plot holes" between critical autoethnography, visual art, poetry, and speculative theorizing help reflect my ecology of depression. Theoretically cohering the performance is geotrauma, which traces aff…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works)