Kenneth Burke + the posthuman / edited by Chris Mays, Nathaniel A. Rivers, and Kellie Sharp-Hoskins.

Other author Mays, Chris, 1976-
Other author Rivers, Nathaniel A.
Other author Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie, 1982-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2017]
Descriptionviii, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Variant title Kenneth Burke and the posthuman
SeriesThe RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric. ^A1368648
Contents Minding mind : Kenneth Burke, Gregory Bateson, and posthuman rhetoric / Kristie S. Fleckenstein -- The cyburke manifesto, or, Two lessons from Burke on the rhetoric and ethics of posthumanism / Jeff Pruchnic -- Revision as heresy : posthuman writing systems and Kenneth Burke's "piety" / Chris Mays -- Burke's counter-nature : posthumanism in the Anthropocene / Robert Wess -- Technique, technology, transcendence : machination and amechanica in Burke, Nietzsche, and Parmenides / Thomas Rickert -- The uses of compulsion : recasting Burke's technological psychosis in a comic frame / Jodie Nicotra -- A predestination for the posthumanistic / Steven B. Katz and Nathaniel A. Rivers -- Emergent mattering : building rhetorical ethics at the limits of the human / Kellie Sharp-Hoskins and Julie Jung -- What are humans for? / Nathan Gale and Timothy Richardson -- A sustainable dystopia / Casey Boyle and Steven LeMieux.
Abstract "A transdisciplinary exploration of the work of Kenneth Burke and posthumanist rhetorics. In considering questions of power and persuasion as well as of ethics, responsibility, the contributors to this volume imagine the contradictions among Burke's writings and posthumanism as opportunities for knowledge making"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017029196
ISBN9780271079097 (pbk. : alk. paper)