Public modalities
Subtitle: rhetoric, culture, media, and the shape of public life
By: edited by Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen.
Contributors: Brouwer, Daniel C., 1970-; Asen, Robert, 1968-
Series: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780817316938; 9780817355852; 9780817383619
Subjects: Politics and culture -- United States; Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States; Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public modalities, or the metaphors we theorize by / Daniel C. Brouwer and Robert Asen; title: Pragmatist publicity : W.E.B. Du Bois and the New Negro Movement  / Eric King Watts; title: "VIII. lowghost publicity, or, my vocabulary did this to me" : an excerpt from the seminar of Jack Spicer, Book III : On dead letters, freakish noises, necropolitics, fire-engines, and the missing couch as channeled and dictated by Dale Smith and Joshua Gunn; title: Everyday life and death in a nuclear world : stories from Fernald / Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Stephen P. Depoe; title: The ownership society, or bourgeois publicity revisited / Robert Asen; title: (In)hospitable publics : theorizing modalities of access to U.S. publics / Sara McKinnon; title: Eyeing new publics : veiling and the performance of civic visibility / Radha S. Hegde; title: Mediating modalities : practicing popular politics / Helene A. Shugart; title: Citizenship, freedom, and the family : public access through private modalities / John M. Sloop; title: Risibility politics : camp humor in HIV/AIDS zines / Daniel C. Brouwer; title: The vernacular mode : locating the non-institutional in the practice of citizenship / Robert Glenn Howard.