Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

The proliferation of smart devices, digital media, and network technologies has led to everyday people experiencing everyday things increasingly on and through the screen. In fact, much of the world has become so saturated by digital mediations that many individuals have adopted digitally inflected sensibilities. This gestures not simply toward posthumanism, but more fundamentally toward an altogether post-digital condition—one in which the boundaries between the “real” and the “digital” have become blurred and technology has fundamentally reconfigured how we make sense of the world.
 
Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic takes stock of these reconfigurations and their implications for rhetorical studies by taking up the New Aesthetic—a movement introduced by artist/digital futurist James Bridle that was meant to capture something of a digital way of seeing by identifying aesthetic values that could not exist without computational and digital technologies. Bringing together work in rhetoric, art, and digital media studies, Hodgson treats the New Aesthetic as a rhetorical ecology rather than simply an aesthetic movement, allowing him to provide operative guides for the knowing, doing, and making of rhetoric in a post-digital culture.
 

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Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

The proliferation of smart devices, digital media, and network technologies has led to everyday people experiencing everyday things increasingly on and through the screen. In fact, much of the world has become so saturated by digital mediations that many individuals have adopted digitally inflected sensibilities. This gestures not simply toward posthumanism, but more fundamentally toward an altogether post-digital condition—one in which the boundaries between the “real” and the “digital” have become blurred and technology has fundamentally reconfigured how we make sense of the world.
 
Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic takes stock of these reconfigurations and their implications for rhetorical studies by taking up the New Aesthetic—a movement introduced by artist/digital futurist James Bridle that was meant to capture something of a digital way of seeing by identifying aesthetic values that could not exist without computational and digital technologies. Bringing together work in rhetoric, art, and digital media studies, Hodgson treats the New Aesthetic as a rhetorical ecology rather than simply an aesthetic movement, allowing him to provide operative guides for the knowing, doing, and making of rhetoric in a post-digital culture.
 

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Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

by Justin Hodgson
Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic

by Justin Hodgson

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Overview

The proliferation of smart devices, digital media, and network technologies has led to everyday people experiencing everyday things increasingly on and through the screen. In fact, much of the world has become so saturated by digital mediations that many individuals have adopted digitally inflected sensibilities. This gestures not simply toward posthumanism, but more fundamentally toward an altogether post-digital condition—one in which the boundaries between the “real” and the “digital” have become blurred and technology has fundamentally reconfigured how we make sense of the world.
 
Post-Digital Rhetoric and the New Aesthetic takes stock of these reconfigurations and their implications for rhetorical studies by taking up the New Aesthetic—a movement introduced by artist/digital futurist James Bridle that was meant to capture something of a digital way of seeing by identifying aesthetic values that could not exist without computational and digital technologies. Bringing together work in rhetoric, art, and digital media studies, Hodgson treats the New Aesthetic as a rhetorical ecology rather than simply an aesthetic movement, allowing him to provide operative guides for the knowing, doing, and making of rhetoric in a post-digital culture.
 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814276884
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 03/20/2019
Series: New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 210
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Justin Hodgson is Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington.

 

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction    Medial Orientations: A Cautionary Tale

Chapter 1        The New Aesthetic and (Post-)Digital Rhetoric

Chapter 2        Rhetorical Ecologies and New Aestheticism

Chapter 3        Eversion as/of Design and the Blurring of Rhetorical Binaries

Chapter 4        Pixel Orientation and the Technologized Human Sensorium

Chapter 5        Human-Technology Making and the Willingness to Play

Chapter 6        Hyperawareness of Mediation and the Shift to Medial Experience

Work Cited

Index

Interviews


PRIMARY: Rhetoric, writing/composition, digital rhetoric, digital humanities, digital media studies
SECONDARY: communication and new media studies, posthuman theory
 

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