Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
29 July 2021
Pages
122
ISBN
9780367903794

Figures of Entanglement: Diffractive Readings of Barad, New Materialism, and Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

Recent and ongoing new materialisms scholarship seeks to fundamentally reshape the humanities and their relationship with the sciences. While this work comprises multiple and varied currents, one of the most important, yet whose distinctive merits are arguably often underappreciated, is that influenced by the theoretical physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad.

The first volume devoted to bringing Barad’s work into conversation with the disciplines of rhetoric and communication studies, this collection organizes that conversation primarily around her notion of entanglement , which encourages an understanding of meaning as inherently performative, material, and ecological. In doing so, the essays in this collection variously approach rhetoric as a figure of entanglement in ways that contribute to and enrich both rhetoric and Barad’s theorizing. Topics range from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic turns, Marx’s notion of exchange, and the prehistoric emergence of human consciousness.

With a new foreword by the editors and afterword by Laurie E. Gries, this collection is otherwise reprinted from the 2016 Figures of Entanglement special issue of the journal Review of Communication.

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