Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2200708
Stacey K. Sowards
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the concepts of enclaves, satellites (Squires), and undercommons (Harney and Moten) intersect in ways that create space for fugitivity, anticolonial thinking, and futurity. Enclaves and satellites can function as a place of hiding to protect radical gestures, ideas, and activism, whereas the undercommons work as spaces to upend institutions, organizations, and cultures. Using the “brown” commons (José Esteban Muñoz) as examples, I argue that, in conversation, the brown commons and undercommons work rhetorically through fugitivity and futurity (as inspiration, connection, and hopefulness) to create spaces of refuge, rupture, and precariousness. In this study, various art forms from Colombian and Chilean artists illustrate how refuge, rupture, and precariousness rhetorically function in public spaces as well as enclaves or satellites; provide the kind of in-between cracks of nourishment, growth, and feeling/being alive geared toward futurity; but can also reinforce anti-Blackness through erasure. In the end, I argue that the undercommons as a theoretical framework informing the brown commons might resist some of this anti-Blackness that resides within latinidad across the Américas.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-26DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2175024
J. Daniel
ABSTRACT Recently, a private space race has emerged, helmed by some of the world’s wealthiest figures. These space entrepreneurs, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk most prominently, have framed the new space race as preparation for the permanent emancipation of humans from Earth. Brad Tabas terms this project the “post-planetary.” In this essay, I analyze postplanetary rhetoric through Todd McGowan’s theorization of fantasy, arguing that the discourse gains assent through operationalizing fantasies of abundance and relegating Earth to a lost cause. In charting the structure of this discourse, I seek to promote further disciplinary attention to fantasy for its capacity to illuminate how contemporary discourses of entrepreneurship and innovation perpetuate capitalism’s hegemony by cultivating consumers’ desires for plenty. I also seek to showcase how a rhetorical approach to fantasy both attends to capitalism’s abortive repression of its contradictions and reveals how the repressed Real of capitalist violence haunts the entrepreneurial scene.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2175025
J. Izaguirre
ABSTRACT This essay traces the Chicana feminist rhetoric of prominent activist Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez in the late 1960s. I argue that Longeaux y Vasquez’s Chicana movida(s), the enactment of feminist sensibilities amid gendered repression, erupted the exclusive boundaries of Chican@ nationalism birthed during the 1969 Denver Youth Liberation Conference. Her rhetoric generated an expansive inclusivity that resonated, although it did not necessarily align, with Chicana movidas emerging in the 1970s and 1980s. An analysis of the aesthetics of her feminist rhetoric in the Chican@ movement newspaper El Grito del Norte highlights at once the rhetorical inventiveness of a Chicana activist grappling with the inclusion of Mexican American women in Chican@ movement(s) and variations in Chicana movidas constituting Chicana rhetorical history. In Longeaux y Vasquez’s feminist rhetoric, we witness a Chicana movida that invented inclusion from the premises of exclusion marking Chican@ nationalism.
摘要本文追溯了20世纪60年代末著名活动家Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez在智利的女权主义言论。我认为，Longeaux y Vasquez的Chicana movida（s），在性别压迫中展现了女权主义情感，爆发了1969年丹佛青年解放会议期间诞生的Chican@民族主义的专属边界。她的言论产生了广泛的包容性，与20世纪70年代和80年代出现的Chicana电影产生了共鸣，尽管这并不一定一致。Chican@运动报纸El Grito del Norte对她的女权主义修辞美学进行了分析，同时强调了一位Chicana活动家的修辞创造性，她努力将墨西哥裔美国女性纳入Chican@的运动，以及构成Chicana修辞史的Chicana电影的变体。在Longeaux y Vasquez的女权主义修辞中，我们看到了一部Chicana movida，它在排斥的前提下创造了包容，标志着Chican@民族主义。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2200700
Ekaterina V. Haskins
ABSTRACT Using the example of Memorial, Russia’s oldest nongovernmental organization, this essay develops the concept of “precarious commons” to describe the continuous and uncertain process of creating an open-access digital resource and maintaining a community around it. In 2022, Memorial became one of the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize for its decades-long efforts to open official archives, to collect and solicit testimony from survivors and families of victims of Soviet terror, and to promote democratic values and human rights in public life. These activities illustrate precarious cultural commoning: ever threatened by bureaucratic enclosure, political and cultural amnesia, and outright persecution. The organization’s extragovernmental, mostly volunteer-driven work has established an open digital archive of state repressions as well as a vital space for educating a new generation of memory activists and imagining a different collective future.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-24DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2200697
Matthew W. Bost, Joshua S. Hanan
ABSTRACT This essay places rhetorical theories of publicity and the common in conversation around the concept of intimacy. Defined as a felt sense of proximity or closeness, intimacy is a form of affective relation that underlies both private and public worldmaking practices, and that produces investments in certain forms of life and community. Considering the relationship between publicity and the common in terms of intimacy makes clear that dominant forms of contemporary publicity are predicated on racialized and gendered enclosures of intimacy that have dispossessed noncapitalist relationships to land and community and instead fostered intimacies conducive to capital accumulation. Our argument suggests that critical scholars who are concerned with contemporary capitalism’s subjection of life to the market have a common interest in attending to the ways these histories of enclosure shape the horizons of modern publicity. Our argument also suggests further attention be directed to forms of counterintimacy aimed at producing anticapitalist coalition.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2200699
Jonathan S. Carter, Misti Yang
ABSTRACT Historically, the commons is conceptually rooted in concerns over shared expertise derived from material resources. Contemporary understandings increasingly examine varied commons rooted in the general intellect—an affective and ideational production across people. Too often, this focus reduces technology to either a tool for, or impediment to, building and accessing robust commons, and overlooks the colonial inheritance of contemporary theory. As a corrective, we follow efforts to rehabilitate the Luddites as not antitechnology, but as technology ethicists, and theorize technology as a coproducer of the general intellect. Situating Sophie Zhang’s and others’ activism as exemplary of a productive neo-Luddism, we argue that technology constitutively remediates the general intellect and as such is central to the ethics of the commons. From this, we advance the argument that rhetorical sabotage is key to promoting a general intellect against the corporate interests and technical-colonialism too often coded into commons.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185018
Karrieann Soto Vega
{"title":"Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico","authors":"Karrieann Soto Vega","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2023.2185018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2185018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46837542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185022
J. Keohane
{"title":"Deplorable: The Worst Presidential Campaigns from Jefferson to Trump","authors":"J. Keohane","doi":"10.1080/02773945.2023.2185022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2023.2185022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45453,"journal":{"name":"Rhetoric Society Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44520475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2185024
Andrew Heermans
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02773945.2023.2175023
M. Kingsbury
ABSTRACT Through the description of activity in an undergraduate voice studio, this essay posits the concept of somatic listening, an active and embodied engagement with verbal metaphor. Somatic listening, which includes aspects of multimodal and relational interlistening, opens singers’ mechanism to being moved by verbal metaphors suggested by their instructor or the text of their score. These movements are traceable through changes in a singer’s voice and in their embodied sensations.
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