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oapen-20.500.12657-254422022-07-21T14:40:03Z Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility Belikian, Les rhetoric actor-network theory meshworks object-oriented ontology transversality bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc::CFGR Discourse analysis In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:39:33Z 2020-04-01T10:39:33Z 2017 book 1004653 OCN: 1048149315 9781947447257 9781947447240 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25442 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004653.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0187.1.00 10.21983/P3.0187.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781947447257 9781947447240 ScholarLed 206 Brooklyn, NY open access
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In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production.
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