January 27 Edbauer

The Author of this article is Jenny Edbauer. She was a writing professor at the University of Texas and is now a professor at Penn University. I was confused by the section where she was talking about location and site. I did not understand what she meant by “bordered sites” and “fixed place” and how those related back to rhetoric. The section From Situs to Distribution, even though it was supposed to explain why situs is important to rhetoric, further confused me.  I found the “Keep Austin Weird” bumper stickers idea very interesting. Aside from being a great marketing tactic it shows how just three words can cause such a movement in society. I believe the primary audience for this text is her peers because this was published in an academic journal. The purpose of this article was to persuade people to believe that most definitions of rhetoric are not fluid enough for today’s society. Edbauer describes rhetoric as “a circulating ecology of effects, enactments, and events.”