TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belikian, Les
AB  - In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0187.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004653
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1048149315
KW  - rhetoric
KW  - actor-network theory
KW  - meshworks
KW  - object-oriented ontology
KW  - transversality
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ff316802-6630-4cdf-b40d-e345c672aa58/1004653.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25442
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9781947447257
SN  - 9781947447240
TI  - Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobilitynull
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