Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 160732671X ISBN 13: 9781607326717

Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado, 2018

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While it has long been understood that the circulation of discourse, bodies, artifacts, and ideas plays an important constitutive force in our cultures and communities, circulation, as a concept and a phenomenon, has been underexamined in studies of rhetoric and writing. In an effort to give circulation its rhetorical due, Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric introduces a wide range of studies that foreground circulation in both theory and practice. Contributors to the volume specifically explore the connections between circulation and public rhetorics, urban studies, feminist rhetorics, digital communication, new materialism, and digital research.

Circulation is a cultural-rhetorical process that impacts various ecologies, communities, and subjectivities in an ever-increasing globally networked environment. As made evident in this collection, circulation occurs in all forms of discursive production, from academic arguments to neoliberal policies to graffiti to tweets and bitcoins. Even in the case of tombstones, borrowed text achieves only partial stability before it is recirculated and transformed again. This communicative process is even more evident in the digital realm, the underlying infrastructures of which we have yet to fully understand.

As public spaces become more and more saturated with circulating texts and images and as networked relations come to the center of rhetorical focus, Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric will be a vital interdisciplinary resource for approaching the contemporary dynamics of rhetoric and writing.

Contributors: Aaron Beveridge, Casey Boyle, Jim Brown, Naomi Clark, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Rebecca Dingo, Sidney I. Dobrin, Jay Dolmage, Dustin Edwards, Jessica Enoch, Tarez Samra Graban, Byron Hawk, Gerald Jackson, Gesa E. Kirsch, Heather Lang, Sean Morey, Jenny Rice, Thomas Rickert, Jim Ridolfo, Nathaniel A. Rivers, Jacqueline Jones Royster, Donnie Johnson Sackey, Michele Simmons, Dale M. Smith, Patricia Sullivan, John Tinnell, Kathleen Blake Yancey

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Laurie E. Gries is assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado Boulder, where her courses focus on writing, rhetoric, and new media with a particular emphasis on theory and research.

Collin Gifford Brooke is associate professor of rhetoric and writing at Syracuse University, where he teaches courses in digital rhetorics, research methods, and social media. He is the author of Lingua Fracta: Toward a Rhetoric of New Media, which won the 2009 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, as well as numerous essays and book chapters.

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Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric

By Laurie E. Gries, Collin Gifford Brooke

University Press of Colorado

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Contents

Acknowledgments, 
Introduction: Circulation as an Emerging Threshold Concept Laurie E. Gries, 
CHAPTERS, 
1 Making Space in Lansing, Michigan: Communities and/in Circulation Donnie Johnson Sackey, Jim Ridolfo, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, 
2 Engaging Circulation in Urban Revitalization Michele Simmons, 
3 Tombstones, QR Codes, and the Circulation of Past Present Texts Kathleen Blake Yancey, 
4 Augmented Publics Casey Boyle and Nathaniel A. Rivers, 
5 Ubicomposition: Circulation as Production and Abduction in Carlo Ratti's Smart Environments Sean Morey and John Tinnell, 
6 Entanglements That Matter: A New Materialist Trace of #YesAllWomen Dustin Edwards and Heather Lang, 
7 Re-Evaluating Girls' Empowerment: Toward a Transnational Feminist Literacy Rebecca Dingo, 
8 Circulation across Structural Holes: Reverse Black Boxing the Emergence of Religious Right Networks in the 1970s Naomi Clark, 
9 Social Circulation and Legacies of Mobility for Nineteenth-Century Women: Implications for Using Digital Resources in Socio-Rhetorical Projects Jacqueline Jones Royster and Gesa E. Kirsch, 
10 New Rhetorics of Scholarship: Leveraging Betweenness and Circulation for Feminist Historical Work in Composition Studies Tarez Samra Graban and Patricia Sullivan, 
11 For Public Distribution Dale M. Smith and James J. Brown Jr., 
12 Cryptocurrency and Persuasive Network Logics: From the Circulation of Rhetoric to the Rhetoric of Circulation Gerald Jackson, 
13 Circulation Analytics: Software Development and Social Network Data Aaron Beveridge, 
14 Open Access(ibility?) Jay Dolmage, 
RESPONSES, 
15 Circulation Exhaustion Jenny Rice, 
16 Archival Problems, Circulation Solutions Jessica Enoch, 
17 Circulation-Signification-Ontology Thomas Rickert, 
18 A Diagrammatics of Persuasion Byron Hawk, 
19 The Spaces Between Sidney I. Dobrin, 
Afterword: The Futurity of Circulation Studies Laurie E. Gries, 
About the Authors, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

Making Space in Lansing, Michigan

Communities and/in Circulation

Donnie Johnson Sackey, Jim Ridolfo, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss

If you've ever walked down the street, seen a name, and wondered what that marking meant, I'll tell you: It means somebody is telling you a story about who they are and what they are prepared to do to make you aware of it.

— Stephen Powers, The Art of Getting Over: Graffiti at the Millennium (1999)

Rhetorical velocity requires an attention to circulation — a conscious rhetorical concern for distance, travel, speed, time, and space. In this chapter, we strategically relationize rhetorical velocity, delivery, and circulation (Ridolfo 2005; Ridolfo and DeVoss 2009; Ridolfo and Rife 2011). Specifically, we explore the ways in which an act of civic disobedience circulated and contributed to the assembly and cocreation of a particular community space. Although previous work on rhetorical velocity has theorized how rhetoricians strategize or analyze how and why texts become other texts, we theorize the telos of cascading acts of delivery, distribution, and circulation as a means to a specific rhetorical goal. We examine how the active circulation of texts across multiple kinds of space enables and supports a physical community bound to a specific time and space. In doing so, we attend to the material and tactile aspects of the writing act, the physical production it inspired and encouraged, and the various implications that resulted.

We first revisit, resituate, and extend the notion of rhetorical velocity and discuss its relationship to delivery and circulation through the lens of cultural mobility studies. Next we introduce a specific case study we can read through rhetorical velocity, delivery, mobilization, and circulation: a moment of civic disobedience in Lansing, Michigan. We situate graffiti as rhetorical action anchored by velocity and circulation by addressing an instance of tagging that frames graffiti art as a rhetorical tactic and community catalyst. We conclude by considering not only the reception and recomposition of texts but how the circulation and motion of texts leave impressions in and around places and spaces.

CIRCULATION, MOBILITY, AND MOBILIZATION

As Laurie E. Gries makes evident in the introduction to this collection, scholars in and beyond rhetoric and composition have robustly attended to the study of circulation. Much of the work that the editors and scholars in this collection draw upon is characterized by the velocity of circulation — that is, the rapidity with which information can flow. Jim Ridolfo and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss introduced the concept of rhetorical velocity as "a strategic approach to composing for rhetorical delivery" (Ridolfo and DeVoss 2009). "It is both," they explain, "a way of considering delivery as a rhetorical mode, aligned with an understanding of how texts work as a component of a strategy ... [and] requires on the part of rhetors a careful consideration of the future time (and particular moments) and place(s) of where, how, and potentially into what texts may be recomposed — and what this may mean." Ridolfo and Martine Courant Rife expanded on rhetorical velocity to consider how copyright may either facilitate or — more likely — disrupt a rhetor's ability to circulate information (Ridolfo and Rife 2011). Here we apply rhetorical circulation and rhetorical velocity to understand a particular moment situated across time, geography, and culture. Circulation studies provides a framework from which we can understand the delivery of rhetorical acts as a moving, breathing thing — not just a one-way transmission. Rhetorical velocity helps us to understand the ways in which and the speed with which communicative acts travel. Cultural mobility helps to frame circulation across and within spaces.

Kevin Hannam, Mimi Sheller, and John Urry define mobility studies as "encompass[ing] both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space and the travel of material things within everyday life" (Hannam, Sheller, and Urry 2006, 1). Mobility studies helps make visible existing networks of people, spaces, and things as they are connected and disconnected by daily spatial, cultural flows. Perhaps the strongest articulation of the principles and objects of study for cultural mobility studies was presented in Stephen Greenblatt's (2009) contribution to his edited collection, Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. His manifesto frames cultural mobility as such: First, cultural mobility must be situated as a literal, physical thing related to the "physical, infrastructural, and institutional conditions of movement" (250). (Think, for instance, where the sidewalks are on a college campus. These are fixed and in some ways control our movement across space). Second, cultural mobility studies must attend to both the obvious and the opaque movements of "peoples, objects, images, texts, and ideas" (250). Third, cultural mobility studies should explore "contact zones," certainly a metaphor composition studies scholars are familiar with (à la Mary Louise Pratt). Fourth, cultural...

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• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 160732671X
• ISBN 13: 9781607326717
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348
• Herausgeber: Gries Laurie
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