Invoking Darkness: Skotison, Scalar Derangement, and Inhuman Rhetoric

Philosophy and Rhetoric 50 (3):336-355 (2017)
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In a recent article on Burke and the emergence of nonhuman rhetoric, Steven B. Katz argues for a syncretic view of this rhetorical turn, despite it being inspired by a number of different philosophical perspectives: “To varying degrees, these new philosophies, loosely collected under the nomer New Materialisms, seem to be in a process of sublimating if not supplanting and replacing the physical human body as the source of motivated agency, intelligence, audience, and language, the traditional subjects of most rhetorical study”. Katz’s synthesis of feminist new materialism, object-oriented ontology, speculative realism, and actor-network theory may ignore the differences of these systems but...

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