Insurgent Infrastructure : Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Young Lords.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Eric Manuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young Lords (Organization).

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Rhetoric.

Literature and revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

In this book, Eric Manuel Rodriguez argues that revolutionary rhetoric operates as insurgent infrastructure rather than symbolic performance.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction: Rhetoric as Resistance

The Young Lords: From Barrio to Revolution

Discipline as Rhetoric: Internal Order and External Credibility

Service, Leadership, and Revolutionary Accountability

Rhetoric as Lived and Revolutionary Practice

Central Argument and Theoretical Framework

Historical Materialism as Method and Revolutionary Rhetoric

Relational and Material Rhetoric

Foquismo, Kairos, and Revolutionary Strategy

Interventions in Rhetorical Studies

Applying the Young Lords' Rhetoric Today

Overview of Chapters

Chapter 1: The Young Lords-A Blueprint for Rhetorical Resistance

Chapter 2: Revolutionary Timing-Foquismo, Kairos, and the Seizure of Conjuncture

Chapter 3: Print as Logistics, Not Symbolism

Chapter 4: Rhetorical Fracture-Geography, Ideology, and the Split

Chapter 5: Revolutionary Rhetoric and the Work of Liberation

Epilogue: Writing as Action-Revolutionary Incompleteness and the Rhetoric of the Present

Chapter 1: The Young Lords: A Blueprint for Rhetorical Resistance

From Streets to Strategy: The Young Lords' Radical Evolution

Foquismo and the Rhetoric of Occupation

Militancy in Print: Rhetoric as Infrastructure

Coalition, Distinction, and the Rhetoric of Divergence

Chapter 2: Revolutionary Timing: Foquismo, Kairos, and the Seizure of Conjuncture

From Theory to Terrain: The Foquista Logic of Revolution

Rhetoric in the Conjuncture: Re-theorizing Kairos

Practicing Kairos: The Young Lords and the Rhetoric of Seizure

Seizing the Hospital: Lincoln and the Conjunctural Blueprint

Counterpublic Timing and Media Disruption

Foquismo and the Kairotic Blueprint

Rhetorical Form and Aesthetic Strategy.

The 13-Point Program and Platform as Rhetorical Form

The Rules of Discipline as Pedagogical Form

Form as Infrastructure

Form as Insurgent Pedagogy

Close Readings

The Garbage Offensive

The People's Church and the Rhetoric of Return

Lincoln Hospital: Print as Pedagogy

Insurgent Textuality in Practice

Media as Pedagogy and Discipline

Pedagogy in Print and Freirean Resonances

Rules of Discipline and Public Ethos

Surveillance, COINTELPRO, and the Politics of Circulation

Print as Infrastructure: Logistical, Pedagogical, and Disciplinary

Toward a Theory of Rhetoric as Infrastructure

Chapter 4: Rhetorical Fracture: Geography, Ideology, and the Split

Locating the Fracture

Chicago: Community First, Party Later

Immediacy: Flyers and Housing Struggles

Testimony: Police Accountability

Coalition: Building Across Communities

Rhetorical Logics and the Fracture with New York

New York: Internationalism and Revolutionary Discipline

Material Conditions and Urban Geographies

Print as a Site of Conflict

Repression and Organizational Survival

Criminalization as Validation

Counter-Surveillance as Spectacle

Pedagogy of Resistance

Escalation as Response

From Confrontation to Governance

Revolutionary Disunity and Tactical Contradiction

Beyond Symbolism: Rhetoric as Action

Rhetoric as Organizing Praxis

Relational Struggle as Rhetorical Strategy

Insurgent Pedagogy: Printing, Clinics, Memory

Kairos and Revolutionary Timing

Intersections with Indigenous and Black Decolonial Rhetoric

Abolitionist Resonances

Risk, Rupture, Recuperation

Internal Strain and Fragmentation

Recuperation by Nonprofits and Academia

The Calculus of Revolutionary Rhetoric

Toward a Rhetoric of Material Liberation.

Insurgent Infrastructure

Dialectical Pedagogy

Collective Logistics

Vignettes of Contemporary Resonance

Chapter 6: Epilogue: Writing as Action-Revolutionary Incompleteness and the Rhetoric of the Present

From the Young Lords to 2020: Echoes and Gaps

Media as Infrastructure

Discursive Victories, Material Defeats

Foquismo and Kairos as Method

Lessons in Incompleteness

Writing as Infrastructural Intervention

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781978769427