Rhetorical agency : mind, meshwork, materiality, mobility / Les Belikian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belikian, Les, author.

Contributor:

Project Muse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric in society.

Rhetoric.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Rhetoric--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 178 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2017

Santa Barbara, CA : Punctum Books, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: ‡z 9781947447240

ISBN:

9781947447257

1947447254

OCLC:

1048149315