Contents of KB Journal 12.2 (Spring 2017)

Special Isssue Editor: Jodie Nicotra
KB Journal Editor: David Blakesley
Associate Editors: Glen Southergill and Rochelle Gregory

This special includes work developed from presentations first delivered at the 9th Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2014 and hosted by Saint Louis University. The conference was chaired by Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers and had has its focus "attitudes toward technology and technology's own attitude." This issue of KB Journal also includes new work not originally presented at this conference but developed independently and published here for the first time.

Articles, Projects, and Poetry in the Special Issue
Keynote Address: The Uses of Compulsion: Addressing Burke's Technological Psychosis by Jodie Nicotra
Technological Devolution, Social Innovation: Attitudes Toward Industry by M. Elizabeth Weiser
Consummation: Kenneth Burke's Third Creative Motive by David Erland Isaksen
Kenneth Burke Digital Archive by Ethan Sproat
Kenneth Burke WUSTL Reading, 4 Dec. 1970, Washington University at St. Louis, transcribed by Adam Humes and Ethan Sproat
Kenneth Burke Discussion with Howard Nemerov, 4 Mar. 1971, Washington University at St. Louis, transcribed by Adam Humes and Ethan Sproat
Pentadic Leaves (poem) by Steven B. Katz

Articles and Multimedia Projects
When Actions Collide: Motive Constructions Spanning Different Acts by Clarke Rountree
The January 1832 Debate on Slavery in Virginia: Clashing Scenes and Terministic Screens by Jim A. Kuyper
Burke on Psychodynamic Aesthetics: Forms that Help Us Cope by Christian Kock
Indexing: Kenneth Burke's Method of Textual Analysis (multimedia) by David Erland Isaksen