Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0299
S. Murray
abstract :Written in late March 2020 in the early days of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, this essay represents a contingent reflection on the American pandemic response, mourning in anticipation of what would soon surely unfold. I argue that the State’s long-standing sacrificial economies have in this moment culminated in a suicidal State. The term is Foucault’s, appearing in a controversial lecture on biopolitics, Nazism, and “biological racism.” Despite Foucault’s problematic treatment of racism, I suggest that some aspects of this discourse might nevertheless be apropos in our context. The U.S. pandemic response is racism’s suicidal State legacy writ large: an extension and retooling of historically racist infrastructures deployed (once again, again) in racialized domains (as more recent reports evidence), but in this moment also across biosocial inequities and vulnerabilities marked by differential fungibilities other than race.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0232
Sarah K. Burgess
abstract:This essay walks through the ways the pandemic structures and limits our movement in cities. It suggests that our well-worn tropes for walking, in this moment, shore up the power of the state over individual bodies. To imagine the possibility of how bodily movement might resist this power, the essay turns to a rhetorical conception of scale.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0306
R. Nethersole
abstract:Forced by the COVID-19 pandemic into lockdown during intercontinental travels, the author finds herself in limbo. With help from literary precedents such as Dante, Boccaccio, and Defoe supported by a brief interrogation of contemporary utterances surrounding the master trope “virus,” she claims a chiasmic relation between the concepts “consolation” and “control.”
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0239
L. Ceccarelli
abstract:Anthony Fauci, an infectious disease expert in the White House’s coronavirus task force, is challenged to offer responsible public communication of science despite working under a habitual liar who has no tolerance for criticism or dissent. Fauci manages this rhetorical exigence by using strategic ambiguity, the topos of the honest broker, dissociation, and a narrative that constrains executive decision making.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0272
Kelly E. Happe
abstract:This essay thinks through the relationship between dystopia and utopia, in particular, how the constellation of past and present in radical demands amid state and economic violence (what Weinbaum calls black feminism’s philosophy of history) is that which creates “crisis”—an estrangement from the present, a reclaiming of past insurgency, and the possibilities for other worlds.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0326
C. Tindale
abstract:The circumstances of the pandemic, while inviting lessons from earlier reclusions, prompt reflection on what is lost when we are forced apart. The moral sense, as Darwin reminds us, is founded in communal bonds, the very things now brought into question. How then are values—and the dispositions that inform them—being challenged by a rhetoric of care?
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0207
Jaedyn A. Baker, Dominick Beaudine, Frannie Deckas, Rebecca L. Gross, S. Mailloux, Nazareth Martínez, Mattie K. Norman, Schuyler Vanderveen
abstract:During the current COVID-19 pandemic, we are experiencing physical viruses infecting our bodies, virtual viruses infecting our computers, and symbolic viruses infecting our thinking. This essay takes up each of these interruptions in a collective attempt to better understand how we are rhetorically and where we might go politically from here.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0286
M. Kennedy
abstract: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 bodies. In the midst of a virus that “does not discriminate,” but is aided in its deadly spread by those systems that do, the concept of “wake work” demands our time and attention.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0225
M. Bernard-Donals
abstract:Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus’s “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves from others and a displacement from our itineraries and our locations. Through COVID-19 we are learning that pandemic does violence to our sense of place, to how we think of respite, and has highlighted our sense of vulnerability in the midst of others.
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Pub Date : 2020-07-14DOI: 10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0293
John Muckelbauer
abstract:The essay dramatizes the strategic movement of thinking/writing through the question “What is human?” as a series of modulations in style.
本文通过“人是什么?”这一问题，生动地表现了思维/写作的策略运动。作为风格上的一系列变化。
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