Topologies as Techniques for a Post-Critical Rhetoric

Lynda Walsh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. Her most recent book, Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (Oxford, 2013) investigates the ethos or public role of science advisers. She has also published on scientific rhetoric and reception theory in journals such as Written Communication, Science Communication, and Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Casey Boyle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin, USA. His work has appeared in Kairos, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, and College English.

• 1. From Intervention to Invention: Introducing Topological Techniques.- 2. Aristotle’s Topoi and Idia as a Map of Discourse.- 3. Topoi and Tekmēria: Rhetorical Fluidity among Aristotle, Isocrates, and Alcidamas.- 4. The Shape of Labor to Come.- 5. Inventing Mosquitoes: Tracing The Topology Of Vectors For Human Disease.- 6. Genre Signals in Textual Topologies William Hart-Davidson and Ryan Omizo.- 7. Mapping Rhetorical Topologies in Cognitive Neuroscience.- 8. Topology and Psychoanalysis: Rhetorically Restructuring the Subject.- 9. A Year Of Deliberating Danger(ously): A Network Topology Of The Loaded Climate Dice.- 10. Getting Down in the Weeds to Get a God’s-Eye View: The Synoptic Topology of Early American Ecology.- 11. Enthymematic Elasticity in the Biomedical Backstage.