Edited by Jenny Rice, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler
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978-1-60235-502-6 (ePub, free download) © 2018 by The Rhetoric Society of America. ~508 pages with notes, illustrations, and bibliographies. Individual chapters are copyrighted by the respective authors and published under Creative Commons license, “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0),” subject to the standard conditions.
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About This Book
Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change features selected essays, multimedia texts, and audio pieces from the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, which spotlighted the theme “Rhetoric and Change.” The pieces are broadly focused around eight different lines of thought: Mediated Rhetorics; Rhetoric and Science; Bodies, Embodiment; Digital Rhetorics; Languages and Politics; Apologia, Revolution, Reflection; and Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric. Simultaneously familiar yet new, the value of this collection can be found in the range of its modes and voices.
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Contents
Introduction: Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change
Jenny Rice, Chelsea Graham, and Eric Detweiler
Soundscapes
Listening to Memorial Soundscapes
Kati Fargo Ahern
Camel City Soundscape
Nathan H. Bedsole, Grant Livesay, and Jennifer A. Malkowski
The Local and the Global
Ian Derk
Co-Creating Sonic Publicness
Ben Harley
Breaking Silence and Bringing Change: A Soundscape of Feminist Protest
Abigail Lambke
Body of Research: Materialities of Sonic Awareness
Scott Lunsford
Drone Songs Volume 1
George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Tim Rapp, and Cat Henning
Hearing the Chance of Space/Place: Changing Immobilized Identities
Eda Ozyesilpinar
Polar
Timothy Richardson
Video Games and Memory
Nathan Riggs and Christopher Stuart
Marching On
Christal Seahorn and Patricia Droz
“Live from Times Square”: Live Camera Feed Websites and the Sounds of Vicarious Surveillance
Anthony Stagliano
Welcome to the Vibratorium
Jennifer Ware and Ashley Hall
I. Mediated Rhetorics
A Podcast?! Whatever Gave You That Idea? Some Reverberations from Walter Benjamin’s Radio Plays
Eric Detweiler
Notes Toward Heavy Music as Maker Practice
Trisha Campbell
Aftershock Rhetorics and Mediated Events: Disaster, Disruption, Visuality
Joshua Abboud
Ambient Propaganda: Attunement, Affect, and the Chinese Dream
Matthew Overstreet
What Color Is Your Superhero? Race, Comics, and Mediated Icons in John Lewis’s March Trilogy
Meta G. Carstarphen
II. Rhetoric and Science
Bioscience as Change Agent: Rhetorics of Restraint and Inevitability in Response to Advances in Genetic Technologies
Leah Ceccarelli
The Oikos as Economic Rhetoric: Toward an Ontological Investigation of Rhetorical Biopolitics
Joshua S. Hanan
A Daoist Rhetoric of Science
Christopher Lee Adamczyk
Climate Change Means Everything-Change: Apocalyptic Rhetoric as Diagnosis of Systemic Dysfunction
Esben Bjerggaard Nielsen
III. Bodies, Embodiment
Making and Mattering
Ann Shivers-McNair
Re-Visioning Roadblocks: The Corporeality of Bodies in the Archive
Elizabeth Baddour
Nadia, the Tattooed Lady Pastor: The Orthodoxy of Nadia Bolz-Weber’s Unorthodox Embodied Rhetoric
Barbara Little Liu
Rhetoric and the Animal Turn: Addressing the Challenges of a Cross-Species Art of Persuasion
Alex C. Parrish
IV. Digital Rhetorics
Resisting the “Singularly Tellable Space”: Re-Seeing Networks in Rhetorical Studies
Tarez Samra Graban, John Jones, Dawn Opel, and Ana Cooke
Jian Ghomeshi’s Inopportune Moment
Robb Conrad Lauzon and Christopher Adamczyk
The Stories They Tell: Silence in German Holocaust Memorials
Laura Carroll
Changing Words into Numbers: Rhetoric, the Digital Humanities, and Methodological Transparency
Seth Long
V. Language and Politics
Ghender Neutral: Furthering Equality Through Linguistic Neutrality
Marcia Allison
Law and Epideictic: The Complex Publics of Legal Discourse
Doug Coulson
HeForShe: Emma Watson and the Enlisting of Men in the “Feminist” Cause
Heidi Hamilton
Barack Obama, Tropology, and Ideas of Africa
Kundai Chirindo
VI. Apologia, Revolution, Reflection
Keep Calm, Carry On, and Above All: Don’t Apologize! Changing Rhetoric in the Service of Stalling Political Change
Lisa S. Villadsen
What Are We Doing and Why Are We Doing It? A Survey of Shared Exigencies in Contemporary Histories of Rhetoric
Ryan Skinnell
So Are They Made or Do They Just Come about? The Need for Revising the Rhetoric of Revolutionary Change
Joseph Kubiak
Reevaluating Our Commitments: Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric
Sarah Ann Singer, Rachel Bloom-Pojar, Tasha N. Dubriwny, Tiffany Kinney, Megan D. McFarlane, Carrie Murawski, Jennifer Edwell, Robin E. Jensen,
Looking in from the Outside, or A Few Angles on Rhetoric and Change
Louise W. Knight
