Another materialist rhetoric
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 15 (1) , 21-40
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295039809367031
Abstract
This paper argues for a new materialism. Rhetorical studies can achieve a new materialism by emphasizing how rhetoric traverses a governing apparatus as a technology of deliberation. As such, rhetoric makes possible the ability to judge and plan reality in order to police a population. To achieve this new materialism, I argue that rhetorical studies will need to abandon a logic of representation for a logic of articulation to better account for how rhetorical practices distribute different elements into a functioning network of power.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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