Kenneth Burke + the posthuman / edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins.

"A transdisciplinary exploration of the work of Kenneth Burke and posthumanist rhetorics. In considering questions of power and persuasion as well as of ethics, responsibility, the contributors to this volume imagine the contradictions among Burke's writings and posthumanism as opportunities for kno...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Other Authors: Mays, Chris, 1976- (Editor)
Rivers, Nathaniel A. (Editor)
Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie, 1982- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Series:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Subjects:
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993 > Criticism and interpretation.
Burke, Kenneth, > 1897-1993.
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
Humanism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:viii, 237 pages ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Kenneth Burke and the posthuman
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Minding mind : Kenneth Burke, Gregory Bateson, and posthuman rhetoric / Kristie S. Fleckenstein
  • The cyburke manifesto, or, Two lessons from Burke on the rhetoric and ethics of posthumanism / Jeff Pruchnic
  • Revision as heresy : posthuman writing systems and Kenneth Burke's "piety" / Chris Mays
  • Burke's counter-nature : posthumanism in the Anthropocene / Robert Wess
  • Technique, technology, transcendence : machination and amechanica in Burke, Nietzsche, and Parmenides / Thomas Rickert
  • The uses of compulsion : recasting Burke's technological psychosis in a comic frame / Jodie Nicotra
  • A predestination for the posthumanistic / Steven B. Katz and Nathaniel A. Rivers
  • Emergent mattering : building rhetorical ethics at the limits of the human / Kellie Sharp-Hoskins and Julie Jung
  • What are humans for? / Nathan Gale and Timothy Richardson
  • A sustainable dystopia / Casey Boyle and Steven LeMieux.