
Utah State University Press
Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics

Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics
To recast new materialist rhetorics as inherently crafty, Leigh Gruwell historicizes and locates the concept of craft both within rhetorical history as well as in the disciplinary history of writing studies. Her investigation centers on three specific case studies: craftivism, the fibercraft website Ravelry, and the 2017 Women's March. These instances all highlight how a material, ecological understanding of rhetorical agency can enact political change.
Craft agency models how we humans might work with and alongside things-nonhuman, sometimes digital, sometimes material-to create more equitable relationships. Making Matters argues that craft is a useful starting point for addressing criticisms of new materialist rhetorics not only because doing so places rhetorical action as a product of complex relationships between a network of human and nonhuman actors, but also because it does so with an explicitly activist agenda that positions the body itself as a material interface.
Author: Leigh Gruwell |
Publisher: Utah State University Press |
Publication Date: Apr 15, 2022 |
Number of Pages: 192 pages |
Binding: Paperback or Softback |
ISBN-10: 1646422546 |
ISBN-13: 9781646422548 |