Sensory rhetorics : sensation, persuasion, and the politics of feeling / edited by Steph Ceraso, Jonathan W. Stone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ceraso, Steph, editor.

Stone, Jonathan W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Senses and sensation.

rhetoric (discipline).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2026.

Summary:

As our divided political climate attests, rational deliberation has failed to persuade people to rally around issues of public health, race and gender-based violence, climate threats, and political demagoguery. In response, scholars are increasingly turning to sensation for new frameworks to understand our situated, bodily responses to rapidly changing environments. Sensory Rhetorics puts rhetoric into conversation with sensory studies writ large.This volume illuminates and interrogates how rhetoric "makes sense," focusing on the ways sensation acts as a suasive force in everyday life. Essays in the volume offer an array of (multi)sensory methods and experiences to demonstrate how sensory rhetorics open new avenues for thinking about our world. The volume begins with the role of disgust in our partisan politics and the digital economy, introduces key concepts of sensory rhetoric, and models innovative methods in relation to environmental injustice, anti-racist work, and gender-affirming surgery. The final essays leave readers with provocative questions regarding sensory regimes and exclusion, received notions of meaning, and the deeply anti-sensory attitudes of coloniality to reimagine the future work of sensory rhetoric. Together, the authors argue that this era of unprecedented change requires new kinds of bodily knowledge and sensory methods to help us understand the most pressing issues in contemporary life.In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Kerry Banazek, Natalie Bennie, Kyle S. Bond, Justin Eckstein, Margot Finn, Benjamin Firgens, Romeo García, David M. Grant, Ames Hawkins, Bryan W. Moe, Christa J. Olson, Lisa L. Phillips, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins, and Kelly Williams Nagel.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Amuse-Bouche / Christa J. Olson

Acknowledgments

Introduction: (Re)Mapping Rhetoric's Sensory Past, Present, and Future / Steph Ceraso, Jonathan W. Stone

1 Red Tastes, Blue Tastes: Disgust and the Political Rhetoric of Moral Pollution / Margot Finn, Bryan W. Moe

2 Rational Markets, Sensory Marketplaces: How Stock Imagery Shapes Digital Sense-Making / Kerry Banazek, Kellie Sharp-Hoskins

3 Reeking Revelations: How Olfaction Informs Rhetorical Processes in Environmental Injustice / Lisa L. Phillips

4 The Sense of Soil: Antiracism and the Community Soil Collection Project / Natalie Bennie, Kelly Williams Nagel

5 Feeling Through Numbness, Healing with Awe: Not-Knowing as a Methodology for Sensory Rhetorics / Ames Hawkins

6 Autokinesis and the Sense of Meaninglessness / Benjamin Firgens

7 Unsettling Colonized Sensory Archives / Romeo García, Kyle S. Bond

8 Informing Rhetoric: Pluriversal Lessons on Différance and Rhetorical Energy / David M. Grant

After(word) / Justin Eckstein

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed March 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Sensory rhetorics.

ISBN:

9780271101736

0271101733

9780271101743

0271101741

OCLC:

1564133024

Publisher Number:

CIPO000317019

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license