Introduces a scheme of machine aesthetics, including classical industrial machines, high technology, and decaying machines, and then explores the rhetorical uses of these aesthetics.

Barry Brummett is a resident of Austin, TX and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin. This is his first book of poetry. His poems are grouped into general…

Sports and Identity examines the ways in which sports have become a means for the communication of social identity in the United States, and the wide range of ways in…

The Politics of Style and the Style of Politics understands style as the intersection of communication, culture, commodification, and aesthetics. Chapters study a wide range of ways that style intersects…