Rhetoric Review Jul 2016

A Rhythmic Refrain: Britain’s Mass-Observation as Rhetorical Assemblage

Paul Walker Murray State University

Abstract

Mass-Observation’s archives and methodology offer insight for expanding the concept of network to assemblage through deterritorializing and reterritorializing rhetorical aspects of historiography and normative historical narratives. Reading M-O’s archives as “worlds expressing” rather than individual, subjective expressions of a world helps theorize rhetorical networks as less straightforward and accountable, provoking recognition of multiple rhetorical agents that coproduce ambient and reiterative rhythms of materiality.

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Rhetoric Review
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2016-07-02
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10.1080/07350198.2016.1178690
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