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Thinking Ecologically About Rhetoric's Ontology: Capacity, Vulnerability, and Resilience by Stormer, Nathan, McGreavy, Bridie

“…Rhetoric teems with ecologically inclined thoughts. This article's interest in “ecology” arises from the circumstance of rhetoric's multiple ontologies. We…”
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Witnessing, Recognition, and Response Ethics by Oliver, Kelly

“…First I discuss the limitations of recognition for grounding both politics and ethics, the main problem being that recognition is distributed according to an…”
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Guest Editor's Introduction: Toward an Archaeogenealogy of Post-truth by Biesecker, Barbara A

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Rhetorical Hegemony: Transactional Ontologies and the Reinvention of Material Infrastructures by Chaput, Catherine, Hanan, Joshua S.

“…This article proposes rhetorical hegemony as a new materialist intervention into the production of alternative political economic futures. It problematizes…”
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Rhetoric by Accident by Stormer, Nathan

“…This essay presents a concept of rhetoric by accident, which understands accidents in regard to the materiality of affection (i.e., the condition of being…”
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Blackened Debate at the End of the World by Kelsie, Amber E.

“…At the End of the World there is blackness doing the (im)possible. This essay considers the (im)possibility of debate in our contemporary crisis through an…”
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Developments in Dissociation: Past Contexts, Present Applications, Future Implications by Anderson, Amy K., Camper, Martin

“…Dissociation is considered by many to be Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's most innovative and significant contribution to rhetorical theory. Currently on…”
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The Origins of and Possible Futures for Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's Dissociation of Concepts by Frank, David A.

“…This essay tells the story of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's “dissociation of concepts,” which they introduced in 1958 and is in use as a tool of criticism by…”
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On Breath and Blackness: Living and Dying in the Wake of the Virus by Kennedy, Michael J.

“…The calls for us to find solace in our “together-apart-ness” obfuscate the calamity of Black lives being lost in numbers exponentially higher than white…”
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The Body as a Site of Material-Symbolic Struggle: Toward a Marxist New Materialism by Chaput, Catherine

“…This essay explores how a physiological notion of affect, one predicated on the transsubstantial circulation of micro-materiality, provides useful connectivity…”
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The New Rhetoric Project Laughs: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Dissociation, and the Comic by Anderson, Amy K.

“…Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's 1974 chapter on dissociation in the comic furthers our understanding of the rhetorical possibilities of dissociation, revealing how…”
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The Human Problem (Part 1) by Muckelbauer, John

“…The essay dramatizes the strategic movement of thinking/writing through the question “What is human?” as a series of modulations in style…”
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Phronesis and the Scientific, Ideological, Fearful Appeal of Lockdown Policy by Condit, Celeste M.

“…“Lockdown!” has articulated our collective and individual fear response to the novel coronavirus. Two regnant specialized discourses fostered by the…”
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The Short History of Rhetorical Theory by Simonson, Peter

“…This essay throws genealogical light upon contemporary theoretical practice by charting the relatively short history of rhetorical theory as a consequential…”
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A Theory of Fan-Type Dissociation by Camper, Martin

“…One of the most important developments in twentieth-century rhetorical theory is Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's insight that concepts, when under strain, can…”
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Books of Interest by Kennedy, Michael

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Verbal Signatures of Dissociation: Epitomizing and Limiting Cases by Fahnestock, Jeanne

“…The sections devoted to dissociation in The New Rhetoric identify many verbal forms that can express this reconceptualizing line of argument. This article…”
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From Association to Dissociation: The NRP's translatio of Gourmont by Bolduc, Michelle

“…This study explores the influence of the French Symbolist poet, novelist, and literary critic Remy de Gourmont on Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's…”
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Masking: Response-ability, in Unsteady, Broken Breaths by Wallace, Jack

“…A reflection on the “mask,” as a question of response and responsibility in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic…”
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Utopia and Crisis by Happe, Kelly E.

“…This essay thinks through the relationship between dystopia and utopia, in particular, how the constellation of past and present in radical demands amid state…”
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