Written in the midst of a global pandemic, this is a forum on rhetorical new materialisms
(RNM), but it is also a forum that has been written by a virus, changed at every turn. When …

This article attempts to expand the world in which rhetorical scholarship exists in general,
and the positionality and subjectivity of the rhetorical scholar who engages in theory building …

Composition-rhetoric is experiencing a surge in research examining how the material is
rhetorically consequential, sometimes termed new materialism. However, much of this …

Craft is a process-oriented practice that takes seriously the relationships between bodies—
both human and nonhuman—and makes apparent how these relationships are mired in and …

As anyone who has irrepressibly tapped her foot to an unfamiliar tune will acknowledge,“
persuasion” frequently succeeds without presenting itself to cognitive scrutiny. The fact that …

The coronavirus pandemic has inundated the globe with discussions of time. Incubation
periods, contagion intervals, exponential growth curves, hospitalization timelines, belated …

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by
exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of …

In the past decade or so, the humanities has seen increasing attention to escalating
concerns about climate change and its devastating effects on diverse ecologies across the …

Rhetorical interventions, witnessed from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park, demonstrate the
potential of local political collectivities and grassroots communities to rhetorically craft …

This essay develops the concept of verkehr as a site of conversation between Marxian and
new materialist theories of rhetoric. Marx and Engels use verkehr, conventionally translated …