Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric

Laurie Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke, Laurie Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781607326717
• eBook ISBN: 9781607326748
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Creative Writing
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

While it has long been understood that the circulation of discourse, bodies, artifacts, and ideas plays an important constitutive force in our cultures and communities, circulation, as a concept and a phenomenon, has been underexamined in studies of rhetoric and writing. In an effort to give circulation its rhetorical due, Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric introduces a wide range of studies that foreground circulation in both theory and practice. Contributors to the volume specifically explore the connections between circulation and public rhetorics, urban studies, feminist rhetorics, digital communication, new materialism, and digital research.

Circulation is a cultural-rhetorical process that impacts various ecologies, communities, and subjectivities in an ever-increasing globally networked environment. As made evident in this collection, circulation occurs in all forms of discursive production, from academic arguments to neoliberal policies to graffiti to tweets and bitcoins. Even in the case of tombstones, borrowed text achieves only partial stability before it is recirculated and transformed again. This communicative process is even more evident in the digital realm, the underlying infrastructures of which we have yet to fully understand.

As public spaces become more and more saturated with circulating texts and images and as networked relations come to the center of rhetorical focus, Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric will be a vital interdisciplinary resource for approaching the contemporary dynamics of rhetoric and writing.

Contributors: Aaron Beveridge, Casey Boyle, Jim Brown, Naomi Clark, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Rebecca Dingo, Sidney I. Dobrin, Jay Dolmage, Dustin Edwards, Jessica Enoch, Tarez Samra Graban, Byron Hawk, Gerald Jackson, Gesa E. Kirsch, Heather Lang, Sean Morey, Jenny Rice, Thomas Rickert, Jim Ridolfo, Nathaniel A. Rivers, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Michele Simmons, Dale M. Smith, Patricia Sullivan, John Tinnell, Kathleen Blake Yancey

Index

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abduction, 6, 19, 302, 307, 310; circulation and, 110–16

access: vs. accessibility, 266; and archive, 190–95, 214, 309; Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, 265; capital to, 144; digital tools and data visualizations, 185, 320, 321; and information in era of protocol, 213–21, 309; nineteenth century women’s, 176–84; open access, 21, 321, 252, 254, 262–75; policy makers to, 158, 161; and social network data, 244–59, 318; social services to, 164

accessibility, 21, 262–75, 321, 328; open accessibility, 267; rhetorical accessibility, 263

actant, 129, 155, 305; association of, 155

actor network theory: enrollment, 155; interessment; mobilization, 155; problematization, 155; reverse black-boxing, 155; and rhetoric, 154–55; splicing, 155; translation, 155. See also Latour; Law; Spinuzzi

Adler-Kassner, Linda, 5

affect, 6, 128–34, 135–51, 302–7, 322; affective accretion and dissipation, 295; affective agencies, 301; affective bonds, 143, 144; affective circulation, 313; affective economy, 127, 138–48, 311, 329; affective energies, 13; affective identification, 18, 138; affective intensities, 13, 119, 324; affective reading, 295; affective things, 118, 30, 301, 302, 304, 305; affective value, 127, 141–47; and becoming, 304; and contagion, 9, 312; and enervation, 324; and entanglement, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Circulation as an Emerging Threshold Concept
• Chapters
• 2 Engaging Circulation in Urban Revitalization
• 3 Tombstones, QR Codes, and the Circulation of Past Present Texts
• 4 Augmented Publics
• 5 Ubicomposition: Circulation as Production and Abduction in Carlo Ratti’s Smart Environments
• 6 Entanglements That Matter: A New Materialist Trace of #YesAllWomen
• 7 Re-Evaluating Girls’ Empowerment: Toward a Transnational Feminist Literacy
• 8 Circulation across Structural Holes: Reverse Black Boxing the Emergence of Religious Right Networks in the 1970s
• 9 Social Circulation and Legacies of Mobility for Nineteenth-Century Women: Implications for Using Digital Resources in Socio-Rhetorical Projects
• 10 New Rhetorics of Scholarship: Leveraging Betweenness and Circulation for Feminist Historical Work in Composition Studies
• 11 For Public Distribution
• 12 Cryptocurrency and Persuasive Network Logics: From the Circulation of Rhetoric to the Rhetoric of Circulation
• 13 Circulation Analytics: Software Development and Social Network Data
• 14 Open Access(ibility?)
• Responses
• 16 Archival Problems, Circulation Solutions
• 17 Circulation-Signification-Ontology
• 18 A Diagrammatics of Persuasion
• 19 The Spaces Between
• Afterword: The Futurity of Circulation Studies
• About the Authors
• Index