Chapter 7: Applied Rhetoric as Disciplinary Umbrella: Community, Connections, and Identity

Abstract

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“…Selber (2004) outlined key features of the postcritical approach, notably combining the pragmatic acceptance of technology in instructional contexts with a critical understanding of its social implications (p. 8). Much in this same vein, scholars have recently linked postcritical approaches with “engaged” rhetorics that support civic and interdisciplinary service (Herndl, 2017, p. 10) as well as “applied rhetoric” (Veltsos et al, 2021, p. 203) and new-materialist rhetorics (Olman & Boyle, 2017, p. 10). In their introduction to a collection focused on postcritical rhetorics, Olman and Boyle (2017) suggested that these methods can “help humans and nonhumans live justly together in uncertainty” (p. 3), which shows how postcritical approaches have evolved in the two decades since they were mainstreamed into our work: from pragmatic acceptance of nonhumans to their full inclusion as first-class citizens in our classrooms.…”