Spaces of Invention: Dissension, Freedom, and Thought in Foucault

Phillips, Kendall R.

doi:10.1353/par.2003.0010

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“…The cultivation of differently charged energies attuned to bodily craftiness applies rational thinking to the cultivation of oneself and extends the notion of rhetorical invention from something practiced on discourse to something enacted on bodies. Peter Simonson (2014) encourages this extended definition of invention generally and Kendell Phillips (2002) emphasizes its ability to guide publics toward opportunities for radical dissention.…”

Section: Implications For Rhetoric and Public Theorymentioning

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Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

Chaput

2018

Communication and the Public

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This article demonstrates the many seamless ways that multiple and diverse publics align their automatic, instinctual behaviors within the broad agenda of neoliberalism. Rather than surreptitiously crafting discourse to appeal to unconscious public dispositions, as neoliberalism does, it suggests that counterpublics consciously apply this technology to themselves. Specifically, it advocates that they forge a productive friction between rational critical thought and bodily habituation so as to reconstitute public orientations and open unexpected occasions for oppositional communication. This requires that scholars engage both traditional neoliberal critics and new materialist critics to tease out the embodied aspects of publics theory and infuse new materialism with an oppositional edge. Michel Foucault’s late lectures provide a theoretical and practical scaffolding for this practice of differently capacitating bodies. The article concludes by gesturing at how this public formation might further pull from underutilized rhetorical resources to expand the communicative possibilities of counterpublic production.

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Section: Implications For Rhetoric and Public Theorymentioning

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Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

Chaput

2018

Communication and the Public

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“…91 A comic rhetoric designed to evoke visceral reactions of disgust breaks these bounds, provokes critical thought, and-as a goal of rhetorical criticism in general-"makes facile gestures difficult." 92…”

Section: Present Mystificationsmentioning

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The comic counterfactual: Laughter, affect, and civic alternatives

Waisanen

2017

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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This project contributes the comic counterfactual to the critical lexicon of rhetorical studies. Using a range of examples from political comedy, this paper offers six distinguishing features and several temporal functions of this concept. I argue that the comic counterfactual invites audiences to critically reflect upon the political, social, and performative consequences of historical events by bringing affective, sensory weight to alternative visions, moving unaccountable private interests into public culture, targeting the subtle determinisms that can easily creep into communication, and creating plausible ways to reworld the status quo. I discuss the limitations of the comic counterfactual in the political economy of media and offer several conclusions for rhetorical research and practice.

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“…35 Kendall Phillips has argued that Foucault opens up spaces of invention, which do not so much critique earlier Foucault work as "press the importance" of earlier work. 36 Yet, no rhetorician has considered Foucault in light of disciplinary norms and the peer review process. The above described understandings of Foucault have brought us to the present point, from which we can apply Foucault to the discipline to better understand the discipline's publishing practices and the resultant effect on the discipline's knowledge production.…”

Section: The Benefits Of Peer Reviewmentioning

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Must We All Be Beholden to Peer Review? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Law Review Model for Rhetorical Scholarship

Sciullo¹

2015

Review of Communication

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Spaces of Invention: Dissension, Freedom, and Thought in Foucault

Cited by 30 publications

References 15 publications

Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

The comic counterfactual: Laughter, affect, and civic alternatives

Must We All Be Beholden to Peer Review? On the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Law Review Model for Rhetorical Scholarship

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