The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism

Slow Civic Violence and the Removal of USPS Mail Sorting Machines During the 2020 Election

“…At the same time white control of budgets in the south after desegregation led to states spending as little as money as possible on social services for black constituents while still allowing for tax credits and cuts, which predominantly white constituents could take advantage of. The racial implications of neoliberal policies on election technologies should give technical communication researchers pause-especially as more researchers in the field have focused on filling the need for more scholarship on race in technical communication (Bivens et al, 2020;Dayley, 2020;Haas, 2012;Jones et al, 2016;Li, 2020;Moore, 2018;Sánchez et al, 2021;Shelton, 2020). 4 By looking at the decision to pull USPS sorting machines as a form of slow civic violence, we can see how neoliberal priorities can have injurious effects not directly on bodies per se, but on democratic processes indirectly and over time.…”