PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1303
K. Walker, L. Cagle
{"title":"Resilience Rhetorics in Science, Technology, and Medicine","authors":"K. Walker, L. Cagle","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1303","url":null,"abstract":"Rhetoric is a resilient art. Its stability and mutability across centuries attest to its dynamism as a domain of knowledge production and engaged practice. While resilience is understood differentially across scholarly and popular domains, it nearly always addresses questions of how to respond, adapt, and persist through adverse circumstances (for a review of this diverse literature, see Flynn, Sotirin, & Brady, 2012). For example, resilience has become a key trope for describing the practices of (bio)security, sustainability, human health, child development, infrastructure, technological systems, and other common sites of study in rhetorics of science, technology, and medicine (RSTM). Recently, rhetoricians have also taken up resilience; these scholars are interested both in using rhetoric to understand resilience and using resilience to understand rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43998329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1297
E. Rodríguez, Dawn S. Opel
{"title":"Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: “Vulnerable” Populations and the Presentation of Healthy People 2020","authors":"E. Rodríguez, Dawn S. Opel","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1297","url":null,"abstract":": Population health is a concept at the core of national healthcare reform efforts. Population health focuses on the social determinants of health, or the living conditions of people at work, home, and play. To participate in population health initiatives, organizations must collect population-level data, creating a discourse of resilience-as-ability-to-cope through mapping community demographics, as though a counting of bodies and their material conditions creates a foundation for sustained, improved health outcomes. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) launched an initiative called Healthy People 2020, a set of ten-year national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. We analyze this data project, arguing that discourses of resiliency (through improved national, state, and local data collection efforts) and vulnerability (of the people who are reduced to data) create a constitutive rhetoric for U.S. public health officials to rally around the cause of population health yet exclude the very people upon whom such a cause should focus. Specifically, an examination of the ODPHP’s Healthy People 2020 website reveals that the reduction of bodies to quantification in data displays for health professionals, when viewed through the lens of Philip Wander’s Third Persona, objectifies groups of people already historically marginalized and obfuscates pathways to social action. We argue that instead, an ecological, relational definition of resilience must be fostered through autonomy of communities in the decisions they make about their own community members’ health and wellness.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45762017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1301
R. Harris
{"title":"Dementia, Rhetorical Schemes, and Cognitive Resilience","authors":"R. Harris","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1301","url":null,"abstract":": I argue for the importance of rhetorical schemes for understanding, diagnosing, and coping with forms of dementia. Schemes give salience (recruit attention), memorability (affect storage and facilitate retrieval), and aesthetic effects (induce a pleasurable emotional response) to configurations of language. They do so because of the way they play to neurocognitive pattern biases, like repetition, sequence, and position. Dementia is a condition under which language ability degrades, alongside memory and attention, but pattern biases appear to be comparatively robust, and schemic configurations become more and more frequent in dementia speech. Rhetorical schemes, that is, are notably resilient to the forces that diminish language use in individuals with dementia.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45865595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1300
Oren Abeles, J. Jack, S. Singer
{"title":"Resilient Turns: Epistrophe, Incrementum, Metonymy","authors":"Oren Abeles, J. Jack, S. Singer","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1300","url":null,"abstract":": In this essay, we demonstrate how rhetorical analyses of style can maintain their focus on linguistic patterns while simultaneously attending to material ones. Focusing on the trope of metonymy and the figures of incrementum and epistrophe , we show how these devices represent different modes of material-semiotic addressivity, resiliently turning and reconfiguring the rhetorical ecologies they capacitate. Using three case studies — a corpus of news articles about water quality amid extensive wind turbine development in Chatham-Kent, Ontario; traditional and “rogue” pain scales; and scientific literature about CRISPR— we explore the stylistic affordances of epistrophe , incrementum , and metonymy, showing how these “turnings” allow resilient material semiotic articulations. We conclude by suggesting how our framework may be applied and extended to other topics and how this understanding of tropes and figures may align with other research trajectories in RSTM.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43502846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-07DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1302
B. McGreavy
{"title":"“It’s just a cycle”: Resilience, poetics, and intimate disruptions","authors":"B. McGreavy","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1302","url":null,"abstract":"The phrase “It’s just a cycle” is commonly articulated in coastal resilience efforts and also shapes broader public debates about climate change. Identifying the structure of arguments around cycles is a useful starting point for defining differences in perspective, but there is more to competing claims about cycles. It is this more that this essay aims to explore, starting with an opening example from an engaged rhetorical ethnographic project with Maine’s clam fishery. The example helps set up a methodological orientation to working with cycles within resilience-focused collaborations that draws from aesthetics and poetics. This approach aims to show how cycles shape world making and how attending to cycles as a trope can create a space for critical, intimate, and poetic disruptions of colonial patterns in resilience discourse.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48422591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1299
Diane Marie Keeling, Patricia Garza, Charisse Michelle Nartey, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
{"title":"The Recalcitrance and Resilience of Scientific Function.","authors":"Diane Marie Keeling, Patricia Garza, Charisse Michelle Nartey, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1299","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Function\" is a vitally important concept in the scientific community. Scientists use it to describe and address a wide variety of research problems. In publications, however, scientists within and across disciplines interpret function differently. For example, intense debate surrounds what percentage of the human genome should be deemed \"functional\" rather than \"junk DNA.\" In this essay, we analyze the use of function in the research of <i>de novo</i> gene birth, a budding scientific field that studies how novel genes can emerge in non-genic sequences. Our research team, composed of a rhetorical scholar, philosopher, structural biologist and systems biologist, crafts a taxonomy of how \"function\" is variously constituted in <i>de novo</i> gene birth publications, including as expressions, capacities, interactions, physiological implications and evolutionary implications. We argue function is shaped by the diverse onto-epistemological perspectives of scientists and is both a recalcitrant and resilient concept of scientific practice. Informed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's writings on a scientific mode of thinking, functions are time-space scales of objects under investigation that make possible references to scientific measurements.</p>","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8218892/pdf/nihms-1604261.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39121263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2019-12-01DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1304
J. Fahnestock
{"title":"Response to Jack, Singer, and Abeles","authors":"J. Fahnestock","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1304","url":null,"abstract":"My thanks to Jack, Singer, and Abeles for a stimulating paper that invites us to think more deeply about the methods of rhetorical analysis. I am also grateful for the invitation to offer some observations on their work as they each show the applicability of the figures of speech to discourses on three very different subjects, and as collectively they challenge a verbal/material dissociation in our understanding and application of the rhetorical tradition.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43775750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2019-02-27DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1278
Alessandra Madella
{"title":"‘The Light Cloak of the Saint:’ The Changing Rhetorical Situations of Esperanto’s “Internal Idea\" and its Relevance to Contemporary Problems","authors":"Alessandra Madella","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1278","url":null,"abstract":"Esperanto was conceived as a model of commercial usefulness, but also to confront the higher aims of its “internal idea.” The interna ideo of Esperanto has historically taken various forms, but it has most often been concerned with protecting a multiethnic world in its diversities, building bridges that allow for a more equitable coexistence of minorities. This underlying ethical thrust makes the international language a potential lever for a more just society in the current global conditions. In order to support this claim, I reconstruct the rhetorical situation of Zamenhof’s pronouncements on the “internal idea,” including Hillelism and Homaranismo. I also argue that George Orwell’s dystopic Newspeak can be considered a political commentary about what would happen to Esperanto if the “internal idea” were to be hijacked in the name of economic progress or the supposed tranquility of commerce.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47302443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2019-02-27DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1282
David R. Gruber, R. Harris
{"title":"Scientific Futures for a Rhetoric of Science: \"We do this and they do that?\" A Junior-Senior Scholar Session, RSA 2018, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; 1 June 2018","authors":"David R. Gruber, R. Harris","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1282","url":null,"abstract":"GRUBER: To start, I want to say that Rhetoric of Science [RoS] is understudied even by rhetoric scholars. In graduate school, I was one of maybe two pursuing it, and it’s never felt central to the field; perhaps, this is because it requires knowing about a very different and often derided disciplinary area. To do RoS, you have to learn the science. Lots of Rhetoric scholars have to become interdisciplinary; those in Rhetoric of Medicine, for example, have to do a lot of background work, but RoS has been particularly good at examining how scientific experiments are made and justified, whereas other areas might focus more on the way that X is applied or sold to the public. The distinction that I’ve just made there is intended to drive at a key point: science, in the lab and on the initial inventional and conceptual level, remains understudied. And I think the lack of work within the scientific process indicates a problem of how we, as rhetorical scholars, think about ourselves. Overall, I want to argue that we imagine ourselves talking about science mostly after-the-fact, after the press release, after the popular media presentation, and not sitting in and amongst the working processes of shaping science.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PoroiPub Date : 2019-02-27DOI: 10.13008/2151-2957.1276
M. Zerbe
{"title":"Toward a Rhetoric of DNA: The Advent of CRISPR","authors":"M. Zerbe","doi":"10.13008/2151-2957.1276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1276","url":null,"abstract":"The nucleic acid DNA, which contains an organism’s genetic information, consists of a four-letter alphabet that has until recently been characterized as a read-only text. The development of a quick, inexpensive DNA targeting and manipulation technique called CRISPR, pronounced “crisper,” though, has changed DNA from this arhetorical, read-only data set, as it has been characterized in the rhetoric literature to date, to a fully rhetorical text—one that can be not only read but created, interpreted, copied, altered, and stored as well. The Book of Nature, an idea with roots in antiquity but popularized during the nineteenth century, provides proof of concept in the form of an historical and theoretical context in which DNA can be viewed in this light. Once ensconced in the Book of Nature, DNA can no longer be considered a code; rather, it is a text. DNA text has structural components that are similar to those of traditional text, and now, with CRISPR, it also has purposes, audiences, and stakeholders. Given the enormous potential of DNA text for both good and ill, rhetoricians of science and medicine must participate in discussions of the complex literacy, policy, and ethics issues this new form of text brings about.","PeriodicalId":93222,"journal":{"name":"Poroi","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45024837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}