Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric

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...

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Other Authors: Walsh, Lynda (Editor), Boyle, Casey (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. From Intervention to Invention: Introducing Topological Techniques
  • 2. Aristotle’s Topoi and Idia as a Map of Discourse
  • 3. Topoi and Tekmēria: Rhetorical Fluidity among Aristotle, Isocrates, and Alcidamas
  • 4. The Shape of Labor to Come
  • 5. Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing The Topology Of Vectors For Human Disease
  • 6. Genre Signals in Textual Topologies William Hart-Davidson and Ryan Omizo
  • 7. Mapping Rhetorical Topologies in Cognitive Neuroscience
  • 8. Topology and Psychoanalysis: Rhetorically Restructuring the Subject
  • 9. A Year Of Deliberating Danger(ously): A Network Topology Of The Loaded Climate Dice
  • 10. Getting Down in the Weeds to Get a God’s-Eye View: The Synoptic Topology of Early American Ecology
  • 11. Enthymematic Elasticity in the Biomedical Backstage.