Pub Date : 2022-11-16DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2136739
Allison L. Rowland
ABSTRACT This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and anonymity associated with networked platforms, the men at r/SmallDickProblems assert affective and epistemic entitlements to recoup what they perceive to be a natural gendered hierarchy. Content advisory: This essay examines discourses concerning misogyny, transphobia, and suicide.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2136738
M. Neville-Shepard
ABSTRACT This article builds on those who have critiqued Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale along racial lines and calls into question the esteemed status the show holds as a rhetorical resource for contemporary feminist activism. By drawing attention to the parasitical relationship that the archetype of the vulnerable (but resilient) white woman has to Black pain and death, I argue that the series further calcifies the dominance of white feminism, enacting what I term “white feminist necropolitics.” To illuminate this theory, the essay presents a close analysis of The Handmaid's Tale. Specifically, I demonstrate how the show deploys post-racial logics to center a white feminist heroine whose story of saviorism relies on the cooptation of Black pain and the exploitation of Black death. Ultimately, this critical reading of the series points to the ways in which white feminism and necropolitics are intricately entangled.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128202
A. Prasch, Mary E. Stuckey
ABSTRACT Empire is central to US foreign policy aims but is rarely taken directly into account in studies of American presidential foreign policy rhetoric. We argue here that in doing such studies, analytic attention should be paid to questions of empire as foundational to the development of the United States and to articulations of the American nation. We examine two historical and two heuristic categories used to understand US presidential foreign policy discourse and argue for refocusing analysis by placing questions of whiteness, empire, and colonialism at the core of those categories.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2144188
Katlyn E. Williams
petuated by deportations are lacking in Goodman’s analysis. The story of immigration told in Goodman’s book is largely focused on racial categories, moving from its beginnings in Chinese communities into the demonization of Latina/o/x immigrants. In an analysis of coercive immigrant violence, the lack of intersectional discussions (namely, of women and queer migrants) leaves the story wholly incomplete and, as a reader, it left me wanting. I recommend The Deportation Machine as an excellent primer for deportations and coercive immigrant violence, rather than treat it as an exhaustive account. Goodman’s history broadens the definition of deportations, providing the reader with an appreciation of the dark side of immigration enforcement in the United States. Goodman’s undertaking is a reminder that no history is truly lost in the modern age, that even the best efforts of the state cannot erase their sins from recording. His clearly laid out history provides the reader with a renewed appreciation of complexity of the machine, and how it dehumanizes and demonizes its subjects. While not perfect in its nuance, it provides an excellent framework for scholars to investigate the machine and to build on the vast archive of texts that Goodman provides.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128206
S. Enck
ABSTRACT This essay examines the interplay between systems of gendered violence and reproductive injustice especially as they exist within frameworks of public and private spheres of knowledge/ experience. I suggest that like domestic violence, abortion care is often articulated as a private issue in need of public support and resources. This framing undercuts the systemic operation of power and control at the cultural level that sustains intersectional violence against people who are already most vulnerable under neocolonial/ hetero-patriarchal/ white supremacist/ capitalist oppression. As feminist activists in the U.S. lament the fall of Roe v. Wade, we ought to use the exigence of the Dobbs decision to collectively demand more robust access to reproductive justice by centering the intersectional experiences of people for whom abortion care in the U.S. has never been meaningfully accessible.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128200
K. Lind
ABSTRACT In this article, I assess viral videos depicting environmental crises and species loss, theorizing the “eco-subjunctive voice” as a rhetorically productive perspective for engaging extinction imagery. Building on Barbie Zelizer's notion of the “subjunctive voice” in images, I explore how viral videos of a polar bear and a sea turtle in jeopardy unite despair and hopefulness, strategically deploy “about-to-die” moments, and make the “hyperobjects” of climate catastrophe more intelligible. Additionally, an eco-subjunctive reading of each video demonstrates the limits of the synecdochic logic commonly employed in ecological discourse. The eco-subjunctive voice is an analytic useful for academics, activists, and audiences. Its capacious character and ability to accommodate contingency and complexity make the eco-subjunctive voice a powerful rhetorical resource in the effort to combat ecological disaster.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128207
S. Tillman, A. Johnson
ABSTRACT Because of anti-abortion rhetoric, people must dedicate a lifetime to learning what decisions are one's own and how to talk about abortion socially, religiously, politically, secretly, and publicly. In this short article, we rely on the nesting doll theory to unpack the complex layers of rhetoric that control how people understand decision making processes regarding a body's reproductive potential. We use autoethnographic techniques to offer lived experience as evidence of the intricate ways anti-abortion rhetoric and reproductive injustice taints the entire system of bodily autonomy via guilt, shame, coercion, lack of consent, and, ultimately, lack of bodily autonomy.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2144185
M. Parnell
1. Gun Violence Archive, “2021,” Jan. 4, 2022, https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls; “Fatal Force,” The Washington Post, Dec. 28, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/ graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/; and Charlie Savage, “What Trump Told Supporters Before Mob Stormed Capitol,” The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/trump-speech-riot.html.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2144178
Sarah Cathryn Majed Dweik
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2022.2128201
Zhaozhe Wang
ABSTRACT Web 3.0 informational capitalism and authoritarianism challenge our assumptions about rhetorical circulation in relation to affect, labor, and capital forces, particularly in transnationally networked publics. A new model is needed in tandem with the robust ecological model to analyze the axiological dimension of transnational digital rhetorical circulation, i.e., how rhetorics produce and accumulate what types of value as they circulate digitally. Drawing on theories of rhetorical capital and communicative labor, this article proposes a theorization of rhetorics that circulate in digitally networked publics as an economy: the changing totality and relationships of rhetorical value produced and accumulated as a result of constant interactions among digital prosumers, technologies, labor, affect, commodities, and capital. The article also seeks to recontextualize the model of rhetorical economies in a transnational context with complex circulatory conditions. The author then reads the rhetorical economy of a Chinese nationalist cyber campaign in response to the Xinjiang cotton controversy.
Web 3.0信息资本主义和威权主义挑战了我们关于情感、劳动力和资本力量的修辞循环的假设，特别是在跨国网络公众中。在稳健的生态模型的基础上，需要一个新的模型来分析跨国数字修辞流通的价值论维度，即修辞在数字流通中如何产生和积累哪些类型的价值。本文借鉴修辞资本和交际劳动理论，提出了在数字网络公众中作为一种经济循环的修辞学理论:由于数字产消者、技术、劳动、情感、商品和资本之间不断互动而产生和积累的修辞价值的总体和关系的变化。文章还试图在具有复杂循环条件的跨国背景下重新语境修辞经济模式。然后，作者阅读了中国民族主义网络运动对新疆棉花争议的回应。
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