Morey - Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies

Like delivery itself, Sean Moreys book offers more than it suggests at first glance. Beneath its insightful readings of delivery/hyprokrisis in the classical tradition and its examinations of deliverys many meanings and possibilities in new media contexts, it delivers something else as well: a new style of reading and writingindeed, a new method for rhetorical inquiryspecifically attuned to the medial logics of the digital age.

Scot Barnett, Indiana University, USA

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 promote its incorporation into digital networked-bodies. Given its provocative and broad reframing of delivery, this book provides original, robust ways to understand rhetorical delivery not only through a lens of digital writing technologies, but all historical means of enacting delivery, offering implications that will ultimately affect how scholars of rhetoric will come to view not only the other canons of rhetoric, but rhetoric as a whole.

Sean Morey is an Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University where he teaches writing and digital media in the department of English. He is the author of The New Media Writer (Fountainhead Press, 2014) and co-edited the collection Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature (SUNY Press, 2009).

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5 Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
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10 The Multimediated Rhetoric of the Internet
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Sean Morey

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Morey, Sean, 1979- author.

Rhetorical delivery and digital technologies: networks, affect, electracy / By Sean Morey.

pages cm. (Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication; 27)

Includes bibliographical references and index. (alk. paper)

1. RhetoricData processing. 2. RhetoricStudy and teaching.
3. LiteracyStudy and teaching. 4. Computers and literacy. I. Title.

P301.5.D37M67 2015

808.00285dc23 2015030073

ISBN: 978-1-138-92544-1 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-68374-4 (ebk)

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This book was a product of seen and unseen relationships, too numerous and complex to fully acknowledge. These networks provided many types of feedback, motivation, and support; without which, this book would not have been conceived, or, at least not as it is here. To all of you within those networks, whether you realize your participation or not, my deepest thanks.