Slow Circulation: The Ethics of Speed and Rhetorical Persistence

Jonathan L. Bradshaw Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University

Abstract

This essay explores “viral circulation” and “slow circulation” as two alternate ethics for rhetorical decision making in civic settings. I analyze interviews with media producers from civic organizations in central Appalachia in order to illustrate the ways community and regional-based rhetorics strive for slow circulation through strategies of “rhetorical persistence” in public discourses. I argue that framing “viral” or “slow” circulation as ethical models helps us understand speed of circulation as both an ethical and rhetorical choice. The essay concludes with a discussion of ways that slow circulation offers an ethic better suited to the circulation of civic rhetorics in some community advocacy contexts.

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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2018-10-20
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10.1080/02773945.2018.1455987
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