Significant Publications
Some interesting documents selected from probably thousands produced using cutting-edge technology in more than sixty years of writing, graphic design, and systems invention.
In some cases, the author developed the technology to meet the need for
specialized digital publishing. Several of the document paradigms resulted in typographic encoding which later supported desktop publishing systems.
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Academic work came to an abrupt halt due to destruction or withholding of databases by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington during 1980s and 1990s, also an unlawful prior restraint issued by Washington Superior Court based upon content of web pages. That finding resulted in the unlawful jailing and solitary confinement of the author. Multiple corruption by Washington Superior Court, Washington Court of Appeals, Washington State Attorney General, and Seattle City government delayed Supreme Court review for five years in an attempt to deny due process of law. Similarly, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has delayed and denied due process for two decades. [Preliminary Injunction] Shirley Ann Jackson and Mark A. Emmert, presidents of RPI and UW respectively, have yet to address myriad issues involved not only with prior restraint but also violation of constitutional and human rights before the jailing. Motions brought by Council House, Seattle predicated upon involvement of lawyers and judges connected with UW who conspired in denial of due process of law. Washington Supreme Court reversed the findings of the lower courts in a unanimous decision (30 Mar 06). [Supreme Court Decision] Three major academic works, prepared as PhD dissertations, already peer-reviewed and approved await resolution of the constitutional and human rights issues at both Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and University of Washington. Unidentified persons unlawfully removed the final peer-reviewed manuscripts of the dissertations stored in binders, and all the original slides and photographs, from the author's apartment while he languished in jail. The selection of the three binders from among more than 500 other binders and hundreds of books showed that the intruder knew precisely what he/she wanted. |
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1998-2007
See Contra Cabal - Contents and Abstracts
See Contra Cabal - Whores of Academe - Contents and Abstracts
1985-1997 Doctoral Dissertations
Publication delayed by machination:
Judith A Ramey, Chair, Department of Technical Communication, College of Engineering, and the
Late Marsha L Landolt, Dean of the Graduate School, University of Washington.
Final peer-reviewed manuscript stored in a binder unlawfully removed from apartment while in jail.
Since 1950, the increased volume of messages and new communication techniques have required almost all communicators to become dependent on, and involved with, technology and applications development. Message creation, transmission, and presentation have become major industries supporting large segments of the economy. Words, pictures, and interpreted ideas and images, have a stronger influence on the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of more people than ever before. Transmitters and receivers of messages need increasingly versatile and effective media for handling the complex interactions and information on which contemporary society depends. Technologists constantly create new communications tools to deliver messages in multiple modes and media. The new media, new message forms, new persuasion techniques, and new ways of analyzing and strategizing for various audience types require a new approach to rhetorical theory. Viewing sixteenth-century painting as a history of individual artists and their painting has obscured the way that their work stands apart in quality and complexity. Fine art has always played its part as the principal referent for the art and craft techniques used in twentieth century graphic design. Fine art and graphic design distinctly differ in communication purposes. Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece has finally taken its place as an important resource for communication researchers. It serves profoundly to explicate parallelism of the various languages that relate to human understanding. It shows transcendental style and techniques related to kinetography – all resident in one visible rhetorical demonstration. The author explores ways that rhetoricians can widen the scope of rhetorical theory and practice. He suggests ways that they can construct visible and "kinetographic" (verbal/visible) language theories that support communication in new technological environments. He also explains how rhetoricians (and consequently writers, graphic designers, and computer programmers) can recognize and explore non-traditional communication procedures and practices when dealing with electronic information dissemination. [Rubens] [Winn] [Sherking Responsibility] [Grünewald Paradigm] [Dissertation Trilogy]
Rebus Principle
Database containing text and graphics removed by UW administrators.
Final peer-reviewed manuscript stored in a binder unlawfully removed from apartment while in jail.
Rebuses may convey direct meaning, especially to inform or instruct non-literate people, or they may deliberately conceal meaning to inform only the initiated. Rebuses, then, constitute part of visible language since rebus signs primarily represent phonetic sounds, not by abstract alphabetic signs, but by graphics of the word or words that the sound signifies. Many represent the sound of one word by the graphic representation of another, and although a rebus may represent several words, it remains as a representation of the words describing itself. Conversely, the alphabet, although it probably derives from graphics, has lost all connection with words as artifacts, and represents sound, by transforming evanescent sound into typographic images in space. [Rubens] [Winn]
Kinetography
Database containing text and graphics removed by UW administrators.
Final peer-reviewed manuscript stored in a binder unlawfully removed from apartment while in jail.
Kinetography: a dynamic secondary orality, or technological verbal/visible rhetoric, that applies to multivariate online, interactive, and broadcast media. Peirce influenced the study of linguistics by postulating that sound and cues do not inherently contain meaning and that communication results from the relationship between them. Morris, following Peirce, divided the field into three parts: semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. This general hypothesis incorporates opinion that covers two thousand years of oral and verbal rhetoric since Aristotle. It relates to five hundred years of visible communication and the vernacularization of language since Gutenberg and Luther. Other pertinent resources involve modern graphic design movements such as Werkbund, De Stihl, and Bauhaus, and psychological theories such as Gestalt and Jung. However important, most of these resources do not sustain the conceptual needs of technological communication. They only lend themselves to comparison and contrast within highly technological settings. Nevertheless, they form a basis for the design of theories that address the rebus attributes of multivariate media communication. They all relate in one way or another to visible language: language governed by the rebus principle. Rebuses use metonymy to provide a stable, nonmetaphoric element that assists the projection and transformation of normative meaning and overcomes the instability between projection and transformation that exists in metaphor. [Rubens] [Winn]
1997
Socrates and Kinetography: Secondary Orality and the Rebus Principle
The Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving 7:(2), 49-76, 1997. Spring 1997 [18:22]
Peer-reviewed edition.
1996
Socrates and Kinetography: Secondary Orality and the Rebus Principle
16th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform
Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California
July 1996 [18:22]
Original publication and presentation.
Technocratic Despotism: Incognito and Safe from the Vexation of Thinking
The National Council of Teachers Assembly for Computers in English Newsletter (ACE)
Vol. X, No. 1 Summer 1996 [14:22]
She who Lies with the Dogs, Riseth with Fleas
Womens’ Freedom Network Newsletter [14:22]
Commissioned, accepted for publication, then PC spiked by womyn.
1994
Editorial
C. G. Jung Society, Seattle
January 1994 [18:22]
Let's Make it Clear
TypoGraphic News 70: Society of Typographic Designers and Association
Typographique Internationale May 1994 [17:22]
1993
From Obscurity: A Definitive Workshop
IEEE PCS Newsletter January/February 1993 [17:22]
Let's Make it Clear
IEEE PCS Newsletter
January/February 1993 [17:22]
Multivariate Media Complexes: Parallelism in Verbal and Visible Rhetoric
International Society for the History of Rhetoric
Conference Paper, Palazzo delle Facoltà umanistiche, Turin, Italy, July 1993 [16:22]
1992
Parallel Multivariate Media Complexes: Codirectionality in Verbal and Visible Communication
IPPC-92 Sante Fe, Conference Record, IEEE
September/October 1992 [16:22]
Techniques Papetieres et Graphiques
IEEE PCS Newsletter July/August 1992 [17:22]
The IPPC-92 Sante Fe, Conference Record (Editor-in-Chief)
Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, September/October 1992 [11:24]
Implicit Language Codes: Theory and Practice
IPPC-92 Sante Fe, Conference Record, IEEE, September/October 1992 [16:22]
The Two-day PCS Siege of Leningrad
IEEE PCS Newsletter, January 1992 [17:22]
1991
Gutenberg and Itten Revisited . . . a letter to Johannes from Johannes
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 34(3): 151-52
September 1991 [17:22] Reprint of award winning essay.
Revisitation . . . A Quantum Leap
Professional Printer 35(6): 12-13, November/December 1991 [17:22] Institute of Printing Silver Medal.
Shape Concept: Color Percept . . . Graphics, Geometry, and Gestalt
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 34(3): 174-79, September 1991 [17:22]
Associate Editor for Graphic Design
1990
Laurels
San Jose, CA: School of Humanities and The Arts, San Jose University, September 1990 [18:21]
1988
Rhetoric + Typography: Creative Interaction in Modern Communication
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication PC31(3): 124-129
September 1988 [17:22] Associate Editor for Graphic Design
1987
Reader Showcase: How They Achieved Results
Kodak Magazine for the Graphics Professional 7(1987): 7,9. July 1987 [17:22]
35th Technical Writers' Institute Promotion
Troy, NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, July 1987 [18:11]
To See or Not to See . . . The Other Rhetoric
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication PC30(1): 30-31
March 1987 [17:22] Associate Editor for Graphic Design
1986
A Case Study of Online Information: Second Generation Systems Design
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication PC29(4): 81-86 December 1986 [17:23]
Associate Editor for Graphic Design
1985
Commencement '85 Program
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:27]
Excellence in Action
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Index: Student Handbook
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:24]
Under Milk Wood (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
1984
Admissions Viewbook
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Amerikay (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Commencement '84 Program
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:27]
Czeslaw Milosz: Poet Laureate (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Edwin Pettet as GBS: My Specialty is being Right when Other People are Wrong (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Euthanasia and Respect for Persons (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Keats and Shakespeare: The Freedom to Create (Series)
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Let us educate you . . .
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:21]
Self-Study Report to the National League for Nursing
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [15:21]
Undergraduate Catalog 1984-85
Fitchburg, MA: Fitchburg State College Press [18:27}
1983
Typography and Graphic Design
Boston: Northeastern University [18:22]
Your Bridge to the Future . . .
Boston: University of Massachusetts [18:21]
1982
National Collegiate Athletic Association: Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Boston: University of Massachusetts/NCAA [18:21]
Health Service: We Serve Your Health
Boston: University of Massachusetts [18:21]
Henry IV, Part I, Critical Ingenuity, Shakespearean Ingenuity, Max Bluestone and Me
Boston: University of Massachusetts/University of California at Berkeley [18:21]
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators National Convention (Series)
Boston: University of Massachusetts/NASPA [18:21]
1981
A Catalog of the Cary Collection of Playing Cards (Four Volumes)
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library [11.27]
[Overview of Cary Playing Card Collection]
Kristin Sue Hammond Memorial Scholarship
Somers, CT: Hammond [11.21]
1978
Africa in Antiquity: The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan- (Two Volumes)
Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [11.21]
A New Use for an Old Mill
Somers, CT: The Somersville Crafts Community [11.22]
1977
The Meat Board Meat Book
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [11.21]
1976
American Mensa Register 1976-77
New York: American Mensa Ltd. [12:27]
A System for Involute Spur and Helical Gears Molded of the Plastics
Manchester, CT: ABA Tool & Die Company, Inc. [13:27]
1975
Capture Keystrokes
Windsor, CT: Fotospectra International [11:22]
Cartoon: A Celebration of American Comic Art
New York: Artrend Foundation [11:21]
Heritage of American Art: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Series)
New York: The American Federation of Arts [12:21]
Three Centuries of Craft Excellence combined with . . . Minicomputer Technology
Windsor, CT: Fotospectra International [11:22]
1974
George Bernard Shaw:
A quite phonetic British alfabet (sic) is impossible because
the vowels of British speakers differ as their fingerprints do.
Mensa Bulletin 175: 1 (April 1974) [17:23]
1971
J. S. Bach Cantatas
Boston: Emmanuel Music Program [11:21]
Emmanuel presents Marion Williams
Boston: Emmanuel Music Program [11:21]
1970
The Year of the Child (Series)
Boston: Department of Mental Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts [18:21]
Wellesley College Catalog
Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College [12:27]
Published at the Graduation of Hillary Clinton.
1969
Film-Loops Catalog (Series)
Cambridge, MA: The Ealing Corporation [12:27]
Optical Services Catalog
Cambridge MA: The Ealing Corporation [12:27]
Science Teaching Catalog
Cambridge, MA: The Ealing Corporation [12:27]
Starting Tomorrow Teaching Aids (Series)
Cambridge, MA: The Ealing Corporation1 [12:21]
Telescope Catalog
Cambridge, MA: The Ealing Corporation [12:21]
1965
Public Relations:
The deliberate, planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain mutual understanding between an organisation and its public.
London: Paul Trummel & Associates Ltd. [11:22]
1964
The Modular Directory of Building Components
London: The Modular Society [12:24]
1961
Aluminium Windows Catalog
London: Williams & Williams Ltd. [12:21]
1960
Standard Steel Windows Catalog (Series)
London: Williams & Williams Ltd. [12:21]
1957-64
Designing and writing construction industry publications for Jewish immigrant architects and engineers - several of them concentration camp survivors - who had difficulty writing English as a second language. That writing, and other technical communications, qualified the author for membership in the National Union of Journalists.
1947-1956 (except for combat duty)
Primarily concerned with reproduction of legal transcripts for the High Courts of Justice, London, and journals for Royal Institute of Arts, London.
1944
First published at age 11 in grammar school (high school) self-produced satirical magazine. Lampooning caused consternation among both administrators and faculty members.
On reflection, the headmaster allowed publication to continue in the interest of academic freedom - a school tradition that dated back to Thomas Macauley and William Wilberforce (school heroes) as the author pointed out to him at the time to avoid punishment for lampooning him.
Key (10:20)
Publication Categories 10
Books, Pamphlet and Posters 11
Catalogs and Directories 12
Manuals 13
Newspapers and Newsletters 14
Reports and Proposals 15
Conference Papers 16
Technical and Professional Journals 17
University and Institutional Publications 18
Creative and Administrative Roles 20
Art Director and Graphic Designer 21
Author 22
Coauthor 23
Editor 24
Ghostwriter 25
Management Consultant 26
Systems Analyst and Typographer 27
Technical Communication Specialist 28
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