The Conceit of Context

Charles E. Morris III (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is a professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Professor Morris is co-founding editor of QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking. His books include Queering Public Address, Remembering the AIDS Quilt, and An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. His essays have appeared in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric & Public Affairs. Kendall R. Phillips (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is founding co-director of the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University where he also serves as Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies. He is former president of the Rhetoric Society of America and holds visiting appointments at Massey University (NZ) and York St. John University (UK). His books include A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema, Framing Public Memory, and Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. His essays have appeared in such journals as Philosophy & Rhetoric, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

Acknowledgments – Charles E. Morris III/Kendall R. Phillips: Introduction: Situating the Conceit of Context – Carole Blair: Conceits of Context: Diffident Relations – Lisa A. Flores: Context and the Spatial/Temporal Collapse – Leah Ceccarelli: Temporal Development and Spatial Emplacement in the Dispositional Whole: The (Con)text of Hillary Clinton’s "Basket of Deplorables" Speech – Isaac West: Fragments of Winter, 2015: Fragmentation, Popular Culture, and Making a Murderer – Daniel C. Brouwer: Situating Binge Watching as a Context for Criticism – Bryan J. McCann: Finding Time and Space within the Text – Kelly E. Happe: Rhetoric and the Utopian Gesture: Rethinking Context’s Spatio-Temporal Logics – Ersula J. Ore: Black Death and the Limits of the Utopian Gesture – Dave Tell: A Brief History of a Utopian Gesture – Karrin Vasby Anderson: "Eloquence" in a Parodic Age – Jay P. Childers: Constructing the Politics of the Absurd – Karma R. Chávez: Parody, Perversion, and the Violence of "Normal" Political Culture – J. David Cisneros: Borders, Bodies, Buses, and Butterflies: Migration and the Rhetoric of Social Movement – Phaedra C. Pezzullo: Moving Contexts of Migration Is Beautiful and Undocubus: On Becoming Butterflies and Transnational Entanglements – Matthew May: The Butterfly in the Machine – Jiyeon Kang: Captivated by Shared Judgment: Image Vernacular in South Korea’s 2008 Internet Protests – Claire Sisco King: Speaking of Images: Rhetorics of Captivation and Technologies of Capture – Ned O’Gorman: Translational Rhetoric – Kristan Poirot: Southern Traditions of (Ms.)Remembering: Place, Purpose, & Personae of Black Freedom Commemoration – Mary E. Stuckey: Rethinking Commemorative Context: Local and Global Intersections – Antonio de Velasco: A Cautionary Note on Context, Memory, and the Regulation of Black Womanhood – Samantha Senda-Cook: Place Ballet of Resistance – E. Johanna Hartelius: Three Seeds – Damien Smith Pfister: Rhetorical Field Methods and the Logic of Immersion – Sara L. McKinnon: Dead, Dying & Failing: Violent Mexico in the Context of Transnational U.S. Politics – Annie Hill: Failing State Rhetoric: Sovereign Neomortality and US Diplomatic Dominance – Timothy Barney: Contextualizing State Failure and Necropolitics – List of Contributors – Index.