Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman
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Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman

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Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman

About this book

While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke's thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge making.

Rather than simply mapping posthumanist rhetorics onto Burke's scholarship, Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman focuses on the multiplicity of ideas found both in his work and in the idea of posthumanism. Taking varied approaches organized within a framework of boundaries and futures, the contributors show that studying the humanist theories of Burke in this way creates a satisfyingly chaotic web of interconnections. The essays look at how Burke's writing on the human mind and technology, from his earliest works to his very latest revisions, interrelates with current concepts such as new materiality and coevolution. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention to the fluidity, concerns, and contradictions inherent in language, symbolism, and subjectivity.

A unique, illuminating exploration of the contested relationship between bodies and language, this inherently transdisciplinary book will propel important future inquiry by scholars of rhetoric, Burke, and posthumanism.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Casey Boyle, Kristie Fleckenstein, Nathan Gale, Julie Jung, Steven B. Katz, Steven LeMieux, Jodie Nicotra, Jeff Pruchnic, Timothy Richardson, Thomas Rickert, and Robert Wess.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction: Articulating Ambiguous Compatibilities
  5. Works Cited
  6. I: Boundaries
  7. Chapter 1: Minding Mind: Kenneth Burke, Gregory Bateson, and Posthuman Rhetoric
  8. Notes to Chapter 1
  9. Works Cited
  10. Chapter 2: The Cyburke Manifesto, or, Two Lessons from Burke on the Rhetoric and Ethics of Posthumanism
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Works Cited
  13. Chapter 3: Revision as Heresy: Posthuman Writing Systems and Kenneth Burke's "Piety"
  14. Notes to Chapter 3
  15. Works Cited
  16. Chapter 4: Burkeā€™s Counter-Nature: Posthumanism in the Anthropocene
  17. Notes to Chapter 4
  18. Works Cited
  19. Chapter 5: Techniqueā€“Technologyā€“Transcendence: Machination and Amēchania in Burke, Nietzsche, and Parmenides
  20. Notes to Chapter 5
  21. Works Cited
  22. II: Futures
  23. Chapter 6: The Uses of Compulsion: Recasting Burke's Technological Psychosis in a Comic Frame
  24. Notes to Chapter 6
  25. Works Cited
  26. Chapter 7: A Predestination for the Posthumanistic
  27. Works Cited
  28. Chapter 8: Emergent Mattering: Building Rhetorical Ethics at the Limits of the Human
  29. Notes to Chapter 8
  30. Works Cited
  31. Chapter 9: What Are Humans For?
  32. Notes to Chapter 9
  33. Works Cited
  34. Chapter 10: A Sustainable Dystopia
  35. Works Cited
  36. Contributors
  37. Index