Articulation: a working paper on rhetoric andtaxis

Jamming market rhetoric in Wisconsin's 2011 labor protests

“…33 As Nathan Stormer argues, differentiating between material and immaterial rhetorically creates particular meanings that have political consequences. 34 For Marx and Engels, ideas and material processes were relational concepts that espoused different political commitments. Capitalists constructed material production and material attachment as uncivilized, while immaterial ideas took on a civilized and autonomous valence.…”

6. Trial and Error: Designing an Introductory Course to Technical Communication

“…Layered literacies should require an articulation of specific disciplinary knowledge that highlights the function of such contents within specific rhetorical activities. In "Articulation: A Working Paper on Rhetoric and Taxis," Nathan Stormer (2004) explains the historically constituted and performative nature of rhetorical constructions. For Stormer, articulation is a means of understanding the material practices of rhetoric as arising from "shared acts" (p. 257) as well as a means of "bringing together the material world, language, and spatial arrangement in one act" (p. 263).…”

Strategic Gestures in Bill McKibben's Climate Change Rhetoric

“…Our analysis of McKibben's speeches identifies four types of rhetorical action that contribute to the strategic potential of gestures. First, strategic gestures can facilitate articulation, linking different and dispersed groups, causes, and issues to generate social solidarity (Laclau and Mouffe, 1985;Greene, 1998;DeLuca, 1999;Stormer, 2004;Peeples, 2011). As Brian Massumi (2015) puts it, "The gesture is a call to attunement.…”