Rhetoric’s New Materialism: From Micro-Rhetoric to Microbrew

Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut

doi:10.1080/02773945.2015.1082616

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“…Third, a flat ontology does not mean that the world is flat and that there is no inequality. Rather, it means that things have 'no innate inequality', 95 and, hence, everything must be treated a priori as having equal importance. It is significant to note in this regard that because so many acts of violence have historically been committed against discriminated 'others' and those deemed inferior, 'Flat ontologies are thus considered an antidote to such violent forms of distinction'.…”

Section: Flat Ontology and The Eschewal Of Structuralist Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism

Clark

2023

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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New materialism encompasses a heterogeneous range of perspectives – which share some common themes with Indigenous beliefs and cosmologies – that collectively recognise the vibrancy and affective capabilities of matter. This novel interdisciplinary article makes an important conceptual and empirical contribution to addressing the fact that, to date, scholarship on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) has largely overlooked new materialism. The article is not seeking to convince readers that a new materialist framework is superior to other frameworks applied to CRSV research. The objective, rather, is to demonstrate that new materialism can further enrich how we approach and study CRSV. It explores how new materialism challenges us to think in expanded and more creative ways about two concepts that are widely emphasised in extant scholarship on CRSV – structure and agency. It also draws on interviews with victims-/survivors of CRSV in Bosnia-Herzegovina to practically illustrate the relevance of new materialism and to suggest some potential avenues for future research. The article makes clear that adding a new materialist lens to the study of CRSV is not about diminishing the importance of victims-/survivors, their experiences and narratives. It is about situating them within wider relational and affective assemblages, asking new questions and acknowledging the significance of non-human agencies. Pourquoi la matière importe : Les violences sexuelles liées aux conflits et la pertinence du néo-matérialisme

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Section: Flat Ontology and The Eschewal Of Structuralist Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism

Clark

2023

Millennium: Journal of International Studies

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“…Jody Shipka (2011) draws attention to "other representational systems and ways of making meaning" than printed, spoken, and digital words (131), and David Sheridan (2010) argues specifically for attending to rhetoric in 3D objects (like those made in makerspaces), because objects, like words and symbols, can persuade and create meanings and actions (250). And while rhetorical scholars have long engaged with more-than-symbolic rhetorics across epistemological traditions, some have also taken up interdisciplinary work in new materialism to consider, as Ehren Pflugfelder (2015) does, "what rhetoric is like as we move beyond the humanist symbolic arts" (443). All these articulations expand a traditional focus in Western rhetorics on spoken and written words by suggesting that both the processes and the products of rhetoric can and do exceed symbolic forms.…”

Section: Rhetoric And/as Makingmentioning

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Beyond the Makerspace

Shivers-McNair¹

2021

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Makerspaces—local workshops that offer access to and training on fabrication technologies, often with a focus on creativity, education, and entrepreneurship—proliferated in the 2010s, popping up in cities across the world. Beyond the Makerspace is a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of a particular Seattle makerspace that begins in 2015 and ends with the closing of the space in 2018. Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker. By focusing on a particular makerspace over time, Shivers-McNair attends to a changing cohort of makerspace regulars as they face challenges of bringing their vision of inclusivity and diversity to fruition, and offers an examination of how makers are made (and unmade, and remade) in a makerspace. Beyond the Makerspace contributes not only to our understanding of making and makerspaces, but also to our understanding of how to study making—and meaning making, more broadly—in ways that examine and intervene in the marking of difference. Thus, the book examines what (and whose) values and practices we are taking up when we identify as makers or when we turn a writing classroom or a library space into a makerspace.

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“…Texts inscribe bodies in certain ways and may even become themselves part of the experience of living as a body. Nevertheless, the body‐as‐text metaphor also comes with an epistemic apparatus (Knorr‐Cetina, ) about how to know the body; namely, it assumes that bodies can be “ accounted for by language‐based rhetorics” (Pflugfelder, , p. 448). We see this epistemic apparatus at work in gastroenterological research on the body, microbiota, and affect states.…”

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Socializing the Gut in Probiotics Experimentation: Calibrating Microbiota and Science Policy

Gruber¹,

Kalin²

2019

World Med & Health Policy

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Prebiotic and probiotic products continue to experience strong consumer growth while gastroenterological researchers work behind the scenes to understand the effects of specific bacterial strains on study participants’ feelings of mind‐body healthfulness. Correlations are achieved through the use of psychometric questionnaires, which aim to measure affect states like stress, anxiety, and depression. In this paper, we turn to qualitative textual analysis to examine two commonly employed psychometric questionnaires (HAM‐D and HADS) used in studies of the same probiotic formulation. We show how concepts of social deviance and norms of behavior (e.g., sleep patterns, social life, and work productivity) inform such questionnaires, thus inserting normative ethical imperatives into clinical findings. After demonstrating several key disjunctions across these questionnaires, we develop recommendations for gastroenterological researchers. In particular, we recommend that researchers give more focused attention to aligning psychometric questionnaires and more carefully enact their qualitative assessment requirements. In like manner, we recommend that ethical reviewers and science policy reviewers consider how psychometric questionnaires embed social assumptions into clinical trials, which can affect determinations of healthfulness.

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Rhetoric’s New Materialism: From Micro-Rhetoric to Microbrew

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism

Why Matter Matters: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the Relevance of New Materialism

Beyond the Makerspace

Socializing the Gut in Probiotics Experimentation: Calibrating Microbiota and Science Policy

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