Steven Wexler

Steve Wexler teaches courses in critical theory, literature and film, rhetoric of science, rhetorical theory, and popular culture. Dr. Wexler’s work appears in College Composition and Communication, Kairos, Science & Society, Works & Days, and Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, where he served as guest editor for a special issue on mental labor. He has presented papers at CCCC, Rhetoric Society of America, Historical Materialism Annual Conference, and MIT's Media in Transition. His chapter-essay “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism” is featured in Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History. Dr. Wexler is currently working on Dialectics of Information, a monograph that redefines information and reasoning as a material, historical, and social relation, knowledge as multifarious labor. Put another way, material-social history is the non-reductive level of abstraction (LoA) to bind them all. The book restores totality to reductive accounts of reason and concludes that revolutionary post-capitalism depends in part on radical epistemology.