Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0367903792 ISBN 13 : 9780367903794

Editeur : Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Recent and ongoing "new materialisms" scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad.

The first volume devoted to bringing Barad's work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of "entanglement", which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a "figure of entanglement" in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad's theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx's notion of exchange, and the "prehistoric" emergence of human consciousness.

With a new foreword by the editors and afterword by Laurie E. Gries, this collection is otherwise reprinted from the 2016 "Figures of Entanglement" special issue of the journal Review of Communication.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367903792
• ISBN 13: 9780367903794
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 122
• Éditeur: Gamble Christopher N., Hanan Joshua S.
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