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Winner of the2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award
InStill Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized visual text functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Faireys now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into various relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe.
While intent on tracking the rhetorical life of a single, multiple image,Still Life with Rhetoricis most concerned with studying rhetoric in motion. To account for an images widespread circulation and emergent activities, Gries introduces iconographic trackinga digital research method for tracing an images divergent rhetorical becomings. Yet Gries also articulates a dynamic set of theoretical principles for studying rhetoric as a distributed, generative, and unforeseeable event that is applicable beyond the study of visual rhetoric. With an eye toward futuritythe strands of time beyond a things initial moment of production and deliveryStill Life with Rhetoricintends to be taken up by those interested in visual rhetoric, research methods, and theory.
InStill Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked, global environment. Rather than study how an already-materialized visual text functions within a specific context, Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media, genre, and location at viral rates. A four-part case study of Shepard Faireys now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions, enter into various relations, and spark a firework of activity across the globe.
While intent on tracking the rhetorical life of a single, multiple image,Still Life with Rhetoricis most concerned with studying rhetoric in motion. To account for an images widespread circulation and emergent activities, Gries introduces iconographic trackinga digital research method for tracing an images divergent rhetorical becomings. Yet Gries also articulates a dynamic set of theoretical principles for studying rhetoric as a distributed, generative, and unforeseeable event that is applicable beyond the study of visual rhetoric. With an eye toward futuritythe strands of time beyond a things initial moment of production and deliveryStill Life with Rhetoricintends to be taken up by those interested in visual rhetoric, research methods, and theory.
