John Dewey's Eloquent Citizen: Communication, Judgment, and Postmodern Capitalism

Greene, Ronald Walter

doi:10.1080/00028533.2003.11821586

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“…Similarly, Luke (2008) critiques the way An inconvenient truth undermines democratic public participation and instead legitimizes economic power structures by proposing a technocratic and market-oriented approach to mitigating climate change. These rhetorical frameworks reveal, as Greene (2003) argues, that the domains of economics and politics are no longer separate realms; capitalism is now invested in bio-political production, where life and social being are the products that are manufactured. This ''postmodern capitalism'' frames all social action as capital and therefore is subject to valorization, transaction, and control (Greene, 2004, p. 200).…”

Section: Capitalistic Agencymentioning

confidence: 96%

Capitalistic Agency: The Rhetoric of BP's Helios Power Campaign

Smerecnik¹,

Renegar

2010

Environmental Communication

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Section: Capitalistic Agencymentioning

confidence: 96%

Capitalistic Agency: The Rhetoric of BP's Helios Power Campaign

Smerecnik¹,

Renegar

2010

Environmental Communication

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“…In other words, the space produced from the collision between traditional public theory and new materialist theory opens possibilities for cultivating a critically thinking subject and a subject materially orientated toward an oppositional mode of being-in-the-world. Ronald Greene (2003), who shares a new materialist suspicious of rhetorical deliberation as the route toward substantive change, nudges us in the direction of such subject constitution. Although critical thought by itself cannot penetrate material orientation, an individual, he says, can engage in practices that rhetorically produce an individual as “a subject of a particular kind” (p. 192).…”

Section: A Critical Encounter Between Publics Theory and New Materialismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

Chaput

2018

Communication and the Public

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This article demonstrates the many seamless ways that multiple and diverse publics align their automatic, instinctual behaviors within the broad agenda of neoliberalism. Rather than surreptitiously crafting discourse to appeal to unconscious public dispositions, as neoliberalism does, it suggests that counterpublics consciously apply this technology to themselves. Specifically, it advocates that they forge a productive friction between rational critical thought and bodily habituation so as to reconstitute public orientations and open unexpected occasions for oppositional communication. This requires that scholars engage both traditional neoliberal critics and new materialist critics to tease out the embodied aspects of publics theory and infuse new materialism with an oppositional edge. Michel Foucault’s late lectures provide a theoretical and practical scaffolding for this practice of differently capacitating bodies. The article concludes by gesturing at how this public formation might further pull from underutilized rhetorical resources to expand the communicative possibilities of counterpublic production.

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“…The neoliberal subject is one who is optimally autonomous from the influence of that state and solely accountable for her/his actions. Several rhetorical critics have noted the ways public discourse and pedagogical practices normalize neoliberal logics in civil society at the expense of collective consciousness and responsibility (see Cloud, ; Greene, ).…”

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Redemption in the Neoliberal and Radical Imaginations: The Saga of Stanley “Tookie” Williams

McCann

2013

Communication, Culture & Critique

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The controversial death penalty case of Stanley ''Tookie'' Williams functioned as a confrontation over the efficacy of capital punishment in America, as well as the legitimacy of neoliberal and radical imaginations. I demonstrate how radical iterations of Williams's redemption narrative resisted logics of individualism and White supremacy, while neoliberal renderings, even in Williams's favor, fell prey to such logics. In the end, however, radical discourses of redemption also created a point of legitimation for the state's decision to execute Williams, revealing redemption as an ambivalent thematic whose rhetorical and political functions are contingent on the stakeholders wielding it. The Williams saga also reveals how conflicting imaginaries confront movement rhetors with daunting questions when, quite literally, confronting life and death.

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John Dewey's Eloquent Citizen: Communication, Judgment, and Postmodern Capitalism

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Capitalistic Agency: The Rhetoric of BP's Helios Power Campaign

Capitalistic Agency: The Rhetoric of BP's Helios Power Campaign

Neoliberalism and the rhetorical invention of counterpublic attunement

Redemption in the Neoliberal and Radical Imaginations: The Saga of Stanley “Tookie” Williams

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