Ambient rhetoric : the attunements of rhetorical being / Thomas Rickert.

Author/creator Rickert, Thomas J., 1964-
Format Book
PublicationPittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
Descriptionxxiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesPittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. ^A299123
Contents Introduction: Circumnavigation: world/listening/dwelling -- Toward the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on emplaced invention -- Invention in the wild: on locating Kairos in space-time -- Ambient work: networks and complexity in an ambient age -- Music@microsoft.windows: composing ambience -- Rhetoric, language, attunement: Burke and Heidegger -- The rhetorical thing: objective, subjective, ambient -- Ambient dwelling: Heidegger, Latour, and the fourfold thing -- Attuning to sufficiency: a preparatory study in learning how to dwell -- Conclusion: Movement, Heidegger's silence, disclosure.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013007086
ISBN9780822962403 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN0822962403 (pbk. : acid-free paper)