the inclusion of his own same-sex desire within diary entries. Queering Romantic Engagement in th... more the inclusion of his own same-sex desire within diary entries. Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age moves us outside the space of sexual encounters as a metric of evaluating queerness as VanHaitsma urges scholars to write about queer histories at a time when notions of queerness did not exist. Through the methodology of speculation, VanHaitsma asks us to consider how queer composing was not only possible but also necessary to consider when addressing the queer archive. Her writing also offers rhetorics insight into ways rhetors have queered form and language before queer theory was conceptualized. In her conclusion, VanHaitsma suggests digital space as a future site of inquiry. Thus, she enacts the methodology from the late Jose Munoz in Cruising Utopia, “a backward glance that enacts a future vision” (4). VanHaitsma’s work in archival research and suggestion considers how digital space links the past to the present and considers what the future of rhetorical education mig...
This essay explores how the rhetorical binary of purity and contamination undermined Ralph Nader’... more This essay explores how the rhetorical binary of purity and contamination undermined Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential campaign. Instead of insisting on an unadulterated space from which to launch their attacks on a corrupt system, the Greens might have had more success by embracing their role as an infecting agent—a kind of green virus—actively forcing a reconfiguration of American politics.
This essay explores the practice of “culture jamming” as a strategy of rhetorical protest. Specif... more This essay explores the practice of “culture jamming” as a strategy of rhetorical protest. Specifically, “pranksters” deploy the tools of the mass media and marketing in order to take advantage of the resources and venues they afford. Through the concept of “pranking,” this essay suggests that the most promising forms of media activism may resist less through negation and opposition than by playfully appropriating commercial rhetoric both by folding it over on itself and exaggerating its tropes.
The widely disseminated image of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse rhetorically transformed the lync... more The widely disseminated image of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse rhetorically transformed the lynched black body from a symbol of unmitigated white power to one illustrating the ugliness of racial violence and the aggregate power of the black community. This reconfiguration was, in part, an effect of the black community’s embracing and foregrounding Till’s abject body as a collective “souvenir” rather than allowing it to be safely exiled from public life.
the inclusion of his own same-sex desire within diary entries. Queering Romantic Engagement in th... more the inclusion of his own same-sex desire within diary entries. Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age moves us outside the space of sexual encounters as a metric of evaluating queerness as VanHaitsma urges scholars to write about queer histories at a time when notions of queerness did not exist. Through the methodology of speculation, VanHaitsma asks us to consider how queer composing was not only possible but also necessary to consider when addressing the queer archive. Her writing also offers rhetorics insight into ways rhetors have queered form and language before queer theory was conceptualized. In her conclusion, VanHaitsma suggests digital space as a future site of inquiry. Thus, she enacts the methodology from the late Jose Munoz in Cruising Utopia, “a backward glance that enacts a future vision” (4). VanHaitsma’s work in archival research and suggestion considers how digital space links the past to the present and considers what the future of rhetorical education mig...
This essay explores how the rhetorical binary of purity and contamination undermined Ralph Nader’... more This essay explores how the rhetorical binary of purity and contamination undermined Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential campaign. Instead of insisting on an unadulterated space from which to launch their attacks on a corrupt system, the Greens might have had more success by embracing their role as an infecting agent—a kind of green virus—actively forcing a reconfiguration of American politics.
This essay explores the practice of “culture jamming” as a strategy of rhetorical protest. Specif... more This essay explores the practice of “culture jamming” as a strategy of rhetorical protest. Specifically, “pranksters” deploy the tools of the mass media and marketing in order to take advantage of the resources and venues they afford. Through the concept of “pranking,” this essay suggests that the most promising forms of media activism may resist less through negation and opposition than by playfully appropriating commercial rhetoric both by folding it over on itself and exaggerating its tropes.
The widely disseminated image of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse rhetorically transformed the lync... more The widely disseminated image of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse rhetorically transformed the lynched black body from a symbol of unmitigated white power to one illustrating the ugliness of racial violence and the aggregate power of the black community. This reconfiguration was, in part, an effect of the black community’s embracing and foregrounding Till’s abject body as a collective “souvenir” rather than allowing it to be safely exiled from public life.
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