Ambient rhetoric : the attunements of rhetorical being / Thomas Rickert.
"In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
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| Summary: | "In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied to the autonomy of human will and cognition as the sole determinants in the discursive act." -- Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822962403 (paperback : acid-free paper) 0822962403 (paperback : acid-free paper) |