Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice by Boyle Casey;

Author:Boyle, Casey; [Boyle, Casey;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2018-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 3.1. Julian Oliver’s “Border Bumping”

When we consider that a simple internet search is affected by complexities similar to those found in the mediation of national borders—most of which far exceed our ability to consciously know their dynamics—Lanham’s “Western decorum” and, by extension, the manner of engagement available in current-critical rhetoric offers fewer positions for rhetorical practice. Despite the many variations of Lanham’s bi-stable oscillation and critical orientation in general, we continue to arrive at familiar stances. When we practice a bi-stable oscillation—as we do in a juridical version of dissoi logoi that focuses on for/against—we assume, create, and rely on disruptions and distanced positions from where separated observers critically examine a separated observed. Considering our evolving definitions of mediation as extended, embodied, and ecological, Lanham’s bi-stable oscillation itself stands at least to be revised, if not reinvented, to account for rhetoric as an informational practice that does not (only) assume those positions of remove. In the next section, we begin this reinvention by examining Gilbert Simondon’s notion of metastability that informs how individuation unfolds.

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