Abstract
This work begins with a deceptively simple question: What is writing? Drawing on insights from rhetoric, poetics, and theoretical physics, the author suggests that writing behaves like a field phenomenon—a dynamic space where thought, language, and meaning interact in nonlinear and interdependent ways. The Rhetorical Field Model (RFM) parallels the integrative logic of quantum mechanics, not as a literal analogy but as a lens for exploring how writing moves, changes, and adapts under conditions of uncertainty, observation, and transformation. Much like the paradox of a black hole—where information is never lost but continually reshaped through energy and entropy—the RFM envisions writing as a gravitational field for thought: a space where ideas bend, refract, and recombine within cognitive and communicative pressure systems. As generative AI reshapes what we value in authorship, this paper draws on interdisciplinary theory-building to suggest that writing now exists in a quantum state between human and machine—a zone of exchange where meaning and authorship stretch across event horizons of interpretation. Ultimately, this work calls for a reorientation of composition theory toward a post-genre, process-based framework that redefines writing as a site of behavioral, rhetorical, and epistemic adaptation. By bridging rhetoric, poetics, cognitive science, cosmology, semiotics, action research, writing analytics, and phenomenology, the author offers a playfully rigorous theorization of “recomposition” as both wave and field—at once potential and performance—where human communication of thought finds its shape within the gravity of shared understanding.
Presenters
Kyle OddisAssistant Professor of English, Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Writing, Composition Theory, Rhetorical Adaptability, Humanism, Authorship, Semiotics, Cosmology, Meaning-Making
