TY - JOUR
T1 - Circulated epideictic
T2 - The technical image and digital consensus
AU - Rice, Jeff
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article explores the epideictic nature of online discourse, or what might be considered a digital version of social knowledge. In particular, it draws from Vilém Flusser's concept of the technical image, the image projected as singular but that is, in fact, layered with many other meanings. Working from two primary examples-the resignation of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe and the reporting of Israeli flooding of a Gazan valley-the article theorizes how a consensus is constructed as a technical image and thus problematizes the nature of consensus in specific rhetorical moments.
AB - This article explores the epideictic nature of online discourse, or what might be considered a digital version of social knowledge. In particular, it draws from Vilém Flusser's concept of the technical image, the image projected as singular but that is, in fact, layered with many other meanings. Working from two primary examples-the resignation of University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe and the reporting of Israeli flooding of a Gazan valley-the article theorizes how a consensus is constructed as a technical image and thus problematizes the nature of consensus in specific rhetorical moments.
KW - Epideictic
KW - Flusser
KW - Image
KW - Social knowledge
KW - Technical
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U2 - 10.5325/philrhet.50.3.0272
DO - 10.5325/philrhet.50.3.0272
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026869860
SN - 0031-8213
VL - 50
SP - 272
EP - 291
JO - Philosophy and Rhetoric
JF - Philosophy and Rhetoric
IS - 3
ER -