In this webtext, we explore how Magic and other complex analog systems operate rhetorically as activity networks. Our scrutiny of Magic’s protocols leads us to consider and compare the game’s anticipated activities (as described in its game rules and our social expectations, conventions, and norms involved in playing the game) with its realized expressions of those activities (as encountered when actually playing one or more iterations of the game itself).

Book Review| September 01 2017 The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. By Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 2015; pp. vi + 329. $79.95/£52.00 cloth; $79.95/£52.00 ebook. Trevor C. Meyer Trevor C. Meyer University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2017) 20 (3): 560–563. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0560 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Trevor C. Meyer; The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 September 2017; 20 (3): 560–563. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.20.3.0560 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.