Review: After the Public Turn: Composition, Counterpublics and the Citizen Bricoleur by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder
If rhetoric and composition is taking a “public turn,” Frank Farmer cautions, let’s be sure that the “public” we imagine actually exists. Farmer examines what a public is—or, more precisely, what publics and counterpublics are. His close examination of the punk zines and his new term, citizen bricoleur, highlight the creative ingenuity of counterpublics, and…