none 10.21983/P3.0187.1.00 punctum books punctum books 31179 175838165 3424611 20251206095007 10.21983 2025-12-06T09:50:13Z 2025-04-29T17:53:55Z 0 Les Belikian Los Angeles City College https://ror.org/03pmg8447 Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on traditional and contemporary rhetorical studies but also on Deleuzean thinking, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, takes the form of a quadruply contrarian thesis: Rhetorical agency inheres, irreducibly so, in subjectivity, in conventionality, in transcendence, and in materiality, all of which are themselves always under production. 1 11 01 2017 978-1-947447-24-0 978-1-947447-25-7 punctum books Earth, Milky Way https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Co-Access 10.1353/book.66795 10.21983/P3.0187.1.00 https://punctumbooks.com/titles/rhetorical-agency/ https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf https://books.punctumbooks.com/10.21983/P3.0187.1.00.pdf