Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice

Boyle, Casey

ISBN 10: 0814254977 / ISBN 13: 9780814254974

Published by Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio U.S.A., 2018

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This paperback has no creasing of the spine or covers. Very little rubbing or edge wear. Interior text is clean and tight in binding. Center section of full color illustrations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814254977
• ISBN 13: 9780814254974
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

In response to the pervasiveness of emerging communication technologies, Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice argues that information be understood as an embodied, material practice. The guiding proposition for this book is that digital rhetoric now concerns how bodies, broadly construed, become informed through practice that includes not only traditional communication activities between bodies but also how information technologies organize and exercise those varying bodies.
 
Through case studies of glitch media art, urban explorers' use of social media, and DIY digital networks, this book then reconsiders how practice/exercise functions when the once essential bodies of the individual and a society--the two primary categories authorized by a humanist paradigm--become less reliable categories from which we might orient rhetorical action. In sum, the book argues that rhetorical practice is irreducible to the traditions and categories of humanism and must now exercise its posthuman capacities.

About the Author

Casey Boyle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas, Austin, and coeditor of Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things.