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Title

Affirming Rhetorical Materialism: Enfolding the Virtual and the Actual.

Authors

Bost, Matthew; Greene, RonaldWalter

Abstract

The article focuses on rhetorical materialism and how it affects ideology, social relations, and governance. A discussion of the information found in Ronald Walter Greene's essay "Another Materialist Rhetoric" is offered, including his spatial method of articulation showing rhetorical proliferation and his assertion that ideology criticism requires hermeneutics of suspicion. The concept of the virtual is noted, including the relationship between language and body. A discussion of how affirmative materialism encourages rhetorical criticism is provided.

Subjects

RHETORIC; MATERIALISM; GREENE, Ronald Walter; THOUGHT & thinking; HERMENEUTICS; REALISM; RHETORICAL criticism

Publication

Western Journal of Communication, 2011, Vol 75, Issue 4, p440

ISSN

1057-0314

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1080/10570314.2011.588902