Issue 34

Issue 34
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Abstract image of a human figure behind rippled glass, hands pressed forward, face distorted by vertical waves of light.
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
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