Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 12.3, our special issue for Summer 2008 with Guest Editors Scott Lloyd DeWitt and Cheryl E. Ball. This is the Manifesto Issue: "[w]rought with connotation, politically and emotionally charged, manifestos call us to action and demand change—in the streets, in the workplace, in our classrooms, in our minds, and in the virtual spaces we inhabit. [...] The manifesto’s typical dense state and its sometimes confrontational approach make it easily susceptible to critique yet can quickly facilitate invention for new scholarly conversations and directions."

This issue contains manifestos on a wide variety of topics related to rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy (including tenure, copyright, activism, multimedia, literature, urban literacy, and visual rhetoric) from Catherine C. Braun and Kenneth L. Gilbert; DigiRhet; Virginia Kuhn, Victor Vitanza, Sarah Arroyo, Geoffrey Carter, Byron Hawk, Bonnie Kyburz, Robert Leston, and Timothy Richardson; Lis Lindeman and Gregory O. Smith; Ted Remington; Spencer Schaffner; Karl Stolley; and Robert Watkins.

We invite you to view the issue and to discuss it here at Kairosnews or at the Computers and Writing conference this week.