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The essays in this book broaden and enrich the scope, at once, of both rhetoric and Barad¿s theorizing through entangled reworkings of topics ranging from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx¿s notion of exchange, and the emergence of human consciousness.
List of contents
Foreword
Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan
Introduction: Figures of Entanglement: Toward A Diffractive Understanding of New Materialist Rhetoric
Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan
1. Breast cancer’s rhetoricity: bodily border crisis and bridge to corporeal solidarity
Annie Hill
2. Rhetoric’s diverse materiality: polythetic ontology and genealogy
Nathan Stormer
3. Of turning and tropes
Diane Marie Keeling
4. Entangled exchange: verkehr and rhetorical capitalism
Matthew W. Bost
5. Rhetorical prehistory and the Paleolithic
Thomas Rickert
Afterword
Laurie E. Gries
About the author
Christopher N. Gamble is a doctoral student in communication at the University of Washington. His work focuses on rhetoric, communication technology, and new materialisms.
Joshua S. Hanan is an associate professor of rhetoric and communication ethics at the University of Denver. His scholarship explores how historically shifting ecological, technological, and economic contexts materially produce and regulate what can and cannot be conceptualized as communicative and rhetorical activity
Summary
The essays in this book broaden and enrich the scope, at once, of both rhetoric and Barad’s theorizing through entangled reworkings of topics ranging from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx’s notion of exchange, and the emergence of human consciousness.
