ABSTRACT Western mathematics functions as a technology of violence when it enlists computational algorithms to underwrite racial neoliberalism. Theorizing algorithmic abstraction as a racial neoliberal technique, this article dramatizes the concept’s methodological affordances through a case study of 23andMe, which deploys algorithmic abstraction to affectively secure and sell Whiteness.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922798
David J. Coogan
ABSTRACT Some critics have theorized redemption in prison memoir as capitulation to prison’s disciplinary gaze. But a closer look at African-American memoirs emerging from the War on Drugs reveals that redemption is not an artifice of oppression or a singular destination but a topic for rhetorical invention. This essay shows how two memoirists—Jeff Henderson and Susan Burton—formed narrative identity from traumatic experiences and oppressive conditions of poverty and racism that led to crime and incarceration. Redemption begins when they question interpretations of that experience and create new narrative identities in the social worlds of upward mobility, recovery, and emancipation. Inventing redemption does not relieve them from the burdens of their histories but gives them new ways of relating to their histories and, in this way, new hope in controlling their futures. The rhetoric of redemption in African-American prison memoir is a powerful counterweight to the rhetoric of mass incarceration depicting African-Americans as unredeemable.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053
Trent M. Kays
{"title":"Rhetorical Speculations: The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology","authors":"Trent M. Kays","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41848969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922799
A. McGee
ABSTRACT Sor Juana, a criolla nun in Mexico’s colonial period, is most recognized for her letter, “La Respuesta” (or “The Response”), to the Bishop of Puebla where she fiercely championed women’s rights in the Americas. However, few discursive spaces take up critical examinations of her work. As such, she is often inscribed within the remnants of White, European intellectual legacies. But what if there was more? Sor Juana’s epistolary writing is a rich site of revisionary possibilities, especially as feminist archival methodology flourishes in rhetoric and composition. This article aims to complicate discussions of Sor Juana as a (proto)feminist rhetorician by including interdisciplinary and intersectional renderings of her embodied, epistolary writing. Drawing on Black feminist rhetorics, I argue that we can discursively (re)read Sor Juana not just as a rhetorician but as an intersectional, cultural, and feminist rhetorician.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922797
Allison Dziuba, J. Lee
ABSTRACT Various efforts to desediment the universality of Aristotelian thought suggest that we are in the “time” of post-Aristotelianism. Yet, is it possible to be post-Aristotelian if the reception, and even the subsequent critique, of Aristotelianism has been based not on Aristotle per se but on translations of Aristotle? The imperative, as we argue, is to not look beyond Aristotle but to approach Aristotle as a monolingualized specter—a presumed foundational presence not based in actuality. Adopting this perspective, we compare extant translations of Aristotle’s Politics and Rhetoric in order to foreground the hermeneutic precarity upon which post-Aristotelianism is premised. This essay thus offers not an endorsement or even a critique of post-Aristotelianism but aims to unsettle “Aristotle” as a cohesive figure or body of work to which we respond, the agreed-upon grounds of canonization or rejection. In this way, we highlight the field of rhetoric’s contingency on translational realities.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1922055
Patrick Morgan
{"title":"Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field","authors":"Patrick Morgan","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1922055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1922055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43967098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842
Richard Branscomb
{"title":"After Gun Violence: Deliberation and Memory in an Age of Political Gridlock","authors":"Richard Branscomb","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07350198.2021.1898842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49130555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1883833
J. Cowan
ABSTRACT This article responds to the global resurgence of nationalist rhetoric, forgoing prior scholarship’s equation of such rhetoric with demagoguery to instead position nationalism as a form of social organization within shifting rhetorical contexts. Using the framework of constitutive rhetoric, the article shows how material changes in our routine discursive infrastructure impact the ability of people to imagine themselves as composing a unified community. Following the digital revolution, nationalism now reflects its technological basis, a transformation that upends traditional forms of identification and leads to what the author dubs “late nationalism,” a reactionary turn that has exacerbated global crises.
{"title":"The Constitutive Rhetoric of Late Nationalism: Imagined Communities after the Digital Revolution","authors":"J. Cowan","doi":"10.1080/07350198.2021.1883833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2021.1883833","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article responds to the global resurgence of nationalist rhetoric, forgoing prior scholarship’s equation of such rhetoric with demagoguery to instead position nationalism as a form of social organization within shifting rhetorical contexts. Using the framework of constitutive rhetoric, the article shows how material changes in our routine discursive infrastructure impact the ability of people to imagine themselves as composing a unified community. Following the digital revolution, nationalism now reflects its technological basis, a transformation that upends traditional forms of identification and leads to what the author dubs “late nationalism,” a reactionary turn that has exacerbated global crises.","PeriodicalId":44627,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07350198.2021.1883833","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47605613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2021.1883797
Lisa S. Mastrangelo
ABSTRACT This piece examines In Memory’s Kitchen, a collection of recipes, poems, and letters compiled by Mina Pächter in the Terezîn Concentration Camp. The author argues that a proper reading of the text involves understanding genre, acts of resistance, and genre bending. Without applying these complex concepts to the texts, readers are at risk of misreading Pächter’s text as a cookbook rather than a memory text of spiritual resistance.
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