Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric write by Robert Hariman. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Culture, Catastrophe, and Rhetoric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores political culture, especially the catastrophic elements of the global social order emerging in the twenty-first century. By emphasizing the texture of political action, the book theorizes how social context becomes evident on the surface of events and analyzes the performative dimensions of political experience. The attention to catastrophe allows for an understanding of how ordinary people contend with normal system operation once it is indistinguishable from system breakdown. Through an array of case studies, the book provides an account of change as it is experienced, negotiated, and resisted in specific settings that define a society’s capacity for political action.
Astonishment and Evocation
Astonishment and Evocation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Astonishment and Evocation write by Ivo Strecker. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Astonishment and Evocation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.
9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity
9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity write by Diana Gonçalves. This book was released on 2016-10-24. 9/11: Culture, Catastrophe and the Critique of Singularity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though much has been said and written about 9/11, the work developed on this subject has mostly explored it as an unparalleled event, a turning point in history. This book wishes to look instead at how disruptive events promote a network of associations and how people resort to comparison as a means to make sense of the unknown, i.e. to comprehend what seems incomprehensible. In order to effectively discuss the complexity of 9/11, this book articulates different fields of knowledge and perspectives such as visual culture, media studies, performance studies, critical theory, memory studies and literary studies to shed some light on 9/11 and analyze how the event has impacted on American social and cultural fabric and how the American society has come to terms with such a devastating event. A more in-depth study of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close draws attention to the cultural construction of catastrophe and the plethora of cultural products 9/11 has inspired. It demonstrates how the event has been integrated into American culture and exemplifies what makes up the 9/11 imaginary.
Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster
Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster write by Jeremy R. Grossman. This book was released on 2024-06-18. Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters. Taking a psychoanalytic and genealogical approach to the rhetoric of disaster science throughout the twentieth century, this book explores how we remember natural disasters by analyzing how we try to prevent them. Chapters track the development of predictive modeling methods alongside some of the worst and most consequential natural disasters in the history of the United States. From miniaturized physical scale models, to cartographic renderings within a burgeoning statistical science, to ever more complex simulation scenarios, disaster science has long created imaginary versions of horrific events in the effort to prevent them. Through an exploration of these hypothetical disasters, this book theorizes how science itself becomes a site of public memory, an increasingly important question in a world of changing weather.
Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies
Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies write by Victor E. Taylor. This book was released on 2009. Conversations in Cultural Rhetoric and Composition Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
