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Product Identifiers
PublisherOhio State University Press
ISBN-100814254977
ISBN-139780814254974
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038698385
Product Key Features
Number of Pages232 Pages
Publication NameRhetoric As a Posthuman Practice
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
SubjectCommunication Studies, General, Rhetoric, Customs & Traditions
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorCasey Boyle
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews" Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice provides an original and sophisticated take on contemporary issues in rhetorical theory. This book offers an alternative perspective on debates that have ground to a halt otherwise; similarly, it offers an interesting path forward with implications for rhetoric, technology, the teaching of writing, and the discipline itself." --Collin Brooke, "The book is theoretically advanced, sophisticated, and timely. It works through terms important to the rhetorical tradition, updates them for the digital age, and continues the work of thinking through what digital literacy will mean for us. Boyle has his finger on the pulse of what some of our key problems in rhetoric are, where the fault lines of debate are, and where innovative developments are happening in digital culture." --Thomas Rickert
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal808
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations vii PART I A PREFACE TO PRACTICE Introduction Questions Concerning the Practice of Rhetoric 3 PART II THEORIZING RHETORICAL PRACTICE Chapter 1 Rhetorical Ecologies of Posthuman Practice Practice Makes Plateaus Practice Makes Perfect Practice Makes Practice Practice Makes Perception Practice Makes Persuasion 27 Chapter 2 Posthuman Practice and/as Information Information as Social Practice How Rhetoric Lost Its Body Incorporating Simondon's Information The Body of Rhetoric, Transduced A Body Politic 60 PART III PRACTICING RHETORICAL THEORY Chapter 3 Informing Metastable Orientations "Dear %?Firstname?%" Dissoi Logoi and/as Disparation From a Bi-Stable Oscillation Through Multistable Oscillations Toward Metastable Orientations Working with Glitch Rhetoric as Resistance Training 93 C O N T E N T S Chapter 4 Orienting to Topological Engagement Incredibly High & Extremely Close Problem Places What Time Is This Topos? The Shape of Rhetoric Posthumans of New York Transversal Practice 124 Chapter 5 Engaging Nomadic Activity Homelessness Networks Infrastructural Crisis? Finding Residence in Homelessness "I Received Your Letter" Stretching Rhetoric Further Transindividual Practice 157 Coda Activating Sense and Sense-abilities 189 Acknowledgments 195 Bibliography 199 Index 211
SynopsisReconsiders persuasion as a process of embodied information, arguing that rhetorical practice is irreducible to categories of humanism and must now exercise its posthuman capacities., In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposition for this book is that digital rhetoric now concerns how bodies, broadly construed, become informed through practice that includes not only traditional communication activities between bodies but also how information technologies organize and exercise those varying bodies. Through case studies of the media art of glitch, urban explorers' use of social media, and DIY digital networks, this book then reconsiders how practice/exercise functions when the once essential bodies of the individual and a society--the two primary categories authorized by a humanist paradigm--become less reliable categories from which we might orient rhetorical action. In sum, the book argues that rhetorical practice is irreducible to the traditions and categories of humanism and must now exercise its posthuman capacities.