Rhetorical Climatology

Author : Chris Ingraham,John Ackerman,Jennifer Lin LeMesurier,Bridie McGreavy,Candice Rai,Nathan Stormer
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609177485

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Rhetorical Climatology by Chris Ingraham,John Ackerman,Jennifer Lin LeMesurier,Bridie McGreavy,Candice Rai,Nathan Stormer Pdf

What if rhetoric and climate are intimately connected? Taking climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, A Reading Group offers a generative framework for making sense of rhetorical studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by antiracist, decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship to a tradition with a long history of being centered around individual, usually privileged, human agents wielding language as their principal instrument. Understanding the atmospheric and ambient energies of rhetoric underscores the challenges and promises of trying to heal a harmed world from within it. A cowritten “multigraph,” which began in 2018 as a reading group, this book enacts an intimate, mutualistic spirit of shared critical inquiry and play—an exciting new way of doing, thinking, and feeling rhetorical studies by six prominent scholars in rhetoric from communication and English departments alike.

Author : Chris Ingraham (College teacher)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Rhetoric
ISBN : 1628955139

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Rhetorical Climatology by Chris Ingraham (College teacher) Pdf

"Taking climates to be rhetorical and rhetoric to be climatic, this book offers a generative framework for making sense of rhetorical studies as they grapple with the challenges posed by anti-racist, decolonial, affective, ecological, and more-than-human scholarship to a tradition with a long history of being centered around individual, usually privileged, human agents"--

Author : Gregory J. Seigworth,Mathew Arthur,Wendy J. Truran,Johnny Gainer
Publisher : Capacious
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Capacious by Gregory J. Seigworth,Mathew Arthur,Wendy J. Truran,Johnny Gainer Pdf

Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal. The principal aim of Capacious is to ‘make room’ for a wide diversity of approaches and emerging voices to engage with ongoing conversations in and around affect studies. Capacious endeavours to promote diverse bloom-spaces for affect’s study over the dulling hum of any specific orthodoxy. Introduction by Chris Ingraham and afterword byJette Kofoed & Jonas Fritsch. Essays by Alana Brekelmans, Maria-Gemma Brown, Carolien Hermans, Margalit Katz, and Matthew Tomkinson. Book reviews by Alana Brekelmans, Miles Feroli, Desiree Foerster, Edoardo Pelligra, and David Rousell. Interstices (short visual and textual interventions) by Paul Bowman, Max Haiven, Katja Hiltunen, and Lea Muldtofte. With a dialogue between Dominic Pettman and Carla Nappi.

Author : Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780197542125

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The Power of Narrative by Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero Pdf

There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the science of anthropogenic climate change. While many scholars have examined the role of lobbyists and conservative think tanks in fueling the climate skepticism movement, there has not yet been a systematic analysis of why the narrative itself has resonated so powerfully with the public. Pulling from science and technology studies, narrative and discourse theory, and public policy, The Power of Narrative examines the strength of climate skepticism as a story, offering a thoughtful analysis and comparison of anti-climate science narratives over time and across geographic boundaries. This book provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching. The Power of Narrative culminates in the revelation of a parallel between narratives about climate skepticism and those in other issue areas (e.g., gun rights, immigration, health crises), exposing a genetic meta-narrative of public distrust and isolation. Ultimately, The Power of Narrative is not a book about climate change in itself: it is, instead, a book about how our society understands and interacts with science, how a social narrative becomes ideology, and how we can move beyond personal and political dogma to arrive at a sense of collective rapprochement.

Author : Lynda Walsh,Casey Boyle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319512686

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Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric by Lynda Walsh,Casey Boyle Pdf

This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather than a causal method. It works inductively to model discourse without reducing it to the actions of a few or resolving its inherent contradictions. By putting topology back in tension with opportunity, as originally designed, the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for post-critical practice in “wicked discourses” of medicine, technology, literacy, and the environment. Readers of the volume will discover exactly how the discipline of rhetoric underscores and interacts with current notions of topology in philosophy, design, psychoanalysis, and science studies.

Author : Tim Jensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030056513

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Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics by Tim Jensen Pdf

Environmental rhetorics have expanded awareness of mass extinction, climate change, and pervasive pollution, yet failed to generate collective action that adequately addresses such pressing matters. This book contends that the anemic response to ecological upheaval is due, in part, to an inability to navigate novel forms of environmental guilt. Combining affect theory with rhetorical analysis to examine a range of texts and media, Ecologies of Guilt in Environmental Rhetorics positions guilt as a keystone emotion for contemporary environmental communication, and explores how it is provoked, perpetuated, and framed through everyday discourse. In revealing the need for emotional literacies that productively engage our complicity in global ecological harm, the book looks to a future where guilt—and its symbiotic relationships with anger, shame, and grief—is shaped in tune with the ecologies that sustain us.

Author : Aimee Kendall Roundtree
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780739175576

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Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination by Aimee Kendall Roundtree Pdf

Computer simulations help advance climatology, astrophysics, and other scientific disciplines. They are also at the crux of several high-profile cases of science in the news. How do simulation scientists, with little or no direct observations, make decisions about what to represent? What is the nature of simulated evidence, and how do we evaluate its strength? Aimee Kendall Roundtree suggests answers in Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination. She interprets simulations in the sciences by uncovering the argumentative strategies that underpin the production and dissemination of simulated findings. She also explains how subjective and social influences do not diminish simulations’ virtue or power to represent the real thing. Along the way, Roundtree situates computer simulations within the scientific imagination alongside paradoxes, thought experiments, and metaphors. A cogent rhetorical analysis, Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination engages scholars of the rhetoric of science, technology, and new and digital media, but it is also accessible to the general public interested in debates over hurricane preparedness and climate change.

Author : Jen Schneider,Steve Schwarze,Peter K. Bsumek,Jennifer Peeples
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137533159

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Under Pressure by Jen Schneider,Steve Schwarze,Peter K. Bsumek,Jennifer Peeples Pdf

This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege market rationality and individual freedom and responsibility above all else. As the coal industry has become the leading target and leverage point for those seeking more aggressive action to mitigate climate change, their corporate advocacy may foreshadow rhetorical strategies available to other fossil fuel industries as they manage similar economic and cultural shifts. The authors’ analysis of coal’s corporate advocacy also identifies contradictions and points of vulnerability in the organized resistance to climate action as well as the larger ideological formation of neoliberalism.

Author : David Burchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351901789

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Science, Literature and Rhetoric in Early Modern England by David Burchell Pdf

These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds examine the agency of early modern poets, playwrights, essayists, philosophers, natural philosophers and artists in remaking their culture and reforming ideas about human understanding. Analyzing the ways in which the works of such diverse writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish, Boyle, Pope and Behn related to contemporary epistemological debates, these essays move us toward a better understanding of interactions between the sciences and the humanities during a seminal phase in the emergence of modern Western thought.

Author : Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Anti-environmentalism
ISBN : 0197542131

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The Power of Narrative by Raul P. Lejano,Shondel J. Nero Pdf

'The Power of Narrative' provides fresh insight into the rhetorical and semantic properties on both sides of the climate change debate that preclude dialogue around climate science, and proposes a means for moving beyond ideological entrenchment through language mediation, further ethnographic study, and research-informed teaching.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : NYPL:33433000084719

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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marcel Leroux
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540281009

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Global Warming - Myth or Reality? by Marcel Leroux Pdf

This book seeks to separate fact from fiction in the global-warming debate. The author begins by describing the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many other conferences, and their dire predictions on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting confusion and sensationalism media reports. He then lays out the "heretical" scientific case of the sizable skeptical scientific community who challenge the accepted wisdom.

Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226555027

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Climate in Motion by Deborah R. Coen Pdf

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth’s climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state—the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws—where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth’s atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of “scaling”—that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.

Author : Greg Garrard,Axel Goodbody,George B. Handley,Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350057043

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Climate Change Scepticism by Greg Garrard,Axel Goodbody,George B. Handley,Stephanie Posthumus Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism in the UK, Germany, the USA and France. Collaboratively written by leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book considers climate skeptical-texts as literature, teasing out differences and challenging stereotypes as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the most important cultural debate of our time.

Author : Philip Eubanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317554851

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The Troubled Rhetoric and Communication of Climate Change by Philip Eubanks Pdf

Despite an overwhelming scientific consensus, climate change remains one of the most controversial issues of our time. Focusing on the rhetoric that surrounds the issue of climate change, this groundbreaking book analyses why the debate continues to rage and examines how we should argue when winning the argument really matters. Going beyond routine condemnations of the wildest statements made by religious fundamentalists or spokespeople for fossil fuel interests, the book explains the mutually exacerbating problems that permit many of us greet catastrophic predictions with an equivocal shrug. It argues that the argumentative situation around climate change makes a certain kind of skepticism – "fair-minded skepticism" – not only possible but likely. The book also strikes a hopeful note, reminding us that people do change their minds in response to effective argumentation that appeals to deeply shared values. Offering new insight into an ongoing academic discussion about the nature of argument and how it can be undertaken more effectively and ethically, as well as a new perspective on the rhetoric of science and technology, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of climate change, environmental humanities, rhetoric, environmental communication, sociology and science and technology studies.