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Takes forward existing scholarship on “post-critical” approaches to rhetoric as well as rhetoric of science scholarship
Appeals to scholars researching topological theory and science communication, as well as those working in the growing international rhetoric community
Features the unique approach of connecting the classical concept of topoi to topology
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book restores the concept of topology to its rhetorical roots to assist scholars who wish not just to criticize power dynamics, but also to invent alternatives. Topology is a spatial rather than a causal method. It works inductively to model discourse without reducing it to the actions of a few or resolving its inherent contradictions. By putting topology back in tension with opportunity, as originally designed, the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for post-critical practice in “wicked discourses” of medicine, technology, literacy, and the environment. Readers of the volume will discover exactly how the discipline of rhetoric underscores and interacts with current notions of topology in philosophy, design, psychoanalysis, and science studies.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Lynda Walsh
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Department of Rhetoric and Writing, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
Casey Boyle
About the editors
Casey Boyle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. His work has appeared in Kairos, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, and College English.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric
Editors: Lynda Walsh, Casey Boyle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51268-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51267-9Published: 27 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84607-1Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51268-6Published: 16 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary, Culture and Technology