Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric (eBook)

Lynda Walsh, Casey Boyle (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 258 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-51268-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather than a causal method. It works inductively to model discourse without reducing it to the actions of a few or resolving its inherent contradictions. By putting topology back in tension with opportunity, as originally designed, the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for post-critical practice in 'wicked discourses' of medicine, technology, literacy, and the environment. Readers of the volume will discover exactly how the discipline of rhetoric underscores and interacts with current notions of topology in philosophy, design, psychoanalysis, and science studies. 

Lynda Walsh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Her most recent book, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (Oxford, 2013) investigates the ethos or public role of science advisers. She has also published on scientific rhetoric and reception theory in journals such as Written Communication, Science Communication, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 

Casey Boyle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. His work has appeared in Kairos, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, and College English. 

Inhalt

1. From Intervention to Invention: Introducing Topological Techniques2. Aristotle’s Topoi and Idia as a Map of Discourse3. Topoi and Tekmēria: Rhetorical Fluidity among Aristotle, Isocrates, and Alcidamas4. The Shape of Labor to Come5. Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing The Topology Of Vectors For Human Disease6. Genre Signals in Textual Topologies William Hart-Davidson and Ryan Omizo7. Mapping Rhetorical Topologies in Cognitive Neuroscience8. Topology and Psychoanalysis: Rhetorically Restructuring the Subject9. A Year Of Deliberating Danger(ously): A Network Topology Of The Loaded Climate Dice10. Getting Down in the Weeds to Get a God’s-Eye View: The Synoptic Topology of Early American Ecology11. Enthymematic Elasticity in the Biomedical Backstage.        

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.3.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 258 p. 20 illus.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Computers and Writing • Digital Rhetoric • Materialist Rhetorics • New Media Theory • Rhetoric of Science • Science and Technology Studies • Science Communication • scientific community • STS • Technoscience • Topology Theory
• ISBN-10: 3-319-51268-4 / 3319512684
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-51268-6 / 9783319512686