{"id":2100,"date":"2019-05-02T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/?page_id=2100"},"modified":"2019-05-02T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:14:23","slug":"after-the-new-materialisms-emerging-theories-of-meaning-and-mattering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/presentations\/after-the-new-materialisms-emerging-theories-of-meaning-and-mattering\/","title":{"rendered":"After the New Materialisms: Emerging Theories of Meaning and Mattering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/presentations\/after-the-new-materialisms-emerging-theories-of-meaning-and-mattering\/\">Overview\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/presentations\/after-the-new-materialisms-emerging-theories-of-meaning-and-mattering\/schedule\/\">Schedule\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/davis\/presentations\/after-the-new-materialisms-emerging-theories-of-meaning-and-mattering\/texts\/\">Texts<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workshop Leaders: Diane Davis and Thomas Rickert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relationship between the meaningful and the material is\ntypically figured as an opposition: meaning\/matter. Over the last several\ndecades, contemporary rhetorical theory has tended to privilege the former,\ncontending that the symbolic constitutes or (at the very least) structures the\nmaterial for the purposes of human comprehension. Recent schools of thought have\nsought to flip this privilege (back) from the symbolic to the material, from the\nepistemological to the ontological, from human subjects to a diverse range of\nnonhuman objects or actants: from the suffocating immanence of a discursive\n\u201cinside\u201d to the unmediated truth of the \u201cgreat outdoors,\u201d as Quintin Meillassoux\nputs it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And\/but these still problematic provocations have also prompted\na growing number of thinkers to deconstruct (once again) the dichotomy itself.\nMining largely untapped resources from our rhetorical-philosophical legacy,\nthey aim to expose an always prior entanglement from which both \u201cmeaning\u201d and\n\u201cmatter\u201d must be extracted. Rhetoric, from this perspective, does not mediate,\nrepresent, or constitute a preexisting reality <em>for<\/em> human consciousness; instead rhetoric, which was never simply\nhuman, names the emergent and always relational force that grants singular being,\neach time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Organization<\/em>: To\nexplore the scholarly and ethico-political implications of this radicalization\nof rhetoric\u2014rhetoric as a quasi-ontological force\u2014workshop participants will discuss\na handful ofprimary\ntexts with distinct approaches to the entanglement of meaning and matter. We\nwill then break into workgroups where each participant will develop or workshop\na scholarly project or draft the basic elements for a course syllabus. On the\nlast half-day, participants will share their work with the larger group and jam\ntogether about future paths for this work within rhetorical studies. Throughout\nthe workshop, we will collaboratively produce a bibliography of shared\nresources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Preparation<\/em>. A Dropbox\nfolder of texts to be discussed will be shared well in advance of the workshop.\nThe tentative list of readings includes selections by Martin Heidegger, Jacques\nDerrida,\nJean-Luc Nancy, Vickie Kirby, Francesco Vitale, Karen Barad, Jane Bennett, Gary\nTomlinson, and Lambros&nbsp;Malafouris. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview\u00a0|\u00a0Schedule\u00a0|\u00a0Texts Workshop Leaders: Diane Davis and Thomas Rickert The relationship between the meaningful and the material is typically figured as an opposition: meaning\/matter. 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