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Issue 35
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Scenes, Sounds, and Systems
2025
“If circulation is material, which physical entity causes an idea to disseminate through a crowd, or a way of thinking to inhabit the minds of millions?"
—Matthew Halm, “Molten Circulation and Rhetoric’s Materiality”
Lava flow, Kilauea volcano, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photo by USGS.
Issue 34
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Affect, Sound, and Surveillance in Networked Publics
2023
“We can choose to not situate ethos as shaped only from the glorious, virtuous, positive statements of rhetors talking about themselves in respectful terms but from what audiences are willing to swallow, not merely from norms that they are eager to praise.”
—David Gruber, “Ecologies of “Sleepy Joe” and “Mini-Mike”: The Affective Politics of Ethos and the Ethics of Ad Hominem Light
3D render by Alex Shuper for Unsplash+