Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies: Networks, Affect, Electracy / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781138925441 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 11/24/2015 Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication , #27 Pages: 278 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) This book theorizes digital logics and applications for the rhetorical canon of delivery. Digital writing technologies invite a re-evaluation about what delivery can offer to rhetorical studies and writing practices. Sean Morey argues that what delivery provides is access to the unspeakable, unconscious elements of rhetoric, not primarily through emotion or feeling as is usually offered by previous studies, but affect, a domain of sensation implicit in the (overlooked) original Greek term for delivery, hypokrisis. Moreover, the primary means for delivering affect is both the logic and technology of a network, construed as modern, digital networks, but also networks of associations between humans and nonhuman objects. Casting delivery in this light offers new rhetorical trajectories that