Journal Articles by Nathan H Bedsole
Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2024
This essay situates X González’s oratory and activism for gun legislation within Jacques Lacan’s ... more This essay situates X González’s oratory and activism for gun legislation within Jacques Lacan’s Discourse of the Analyst to argue for the affirmative role of analytic silence in a body politic riddled with gun death, gridlock, thoughts, and prayers. Psychoanalytic treatment aims at intervention into a patient’s recurring patterns of behavior and speech that uphold their status quo of suffering. My essay argues for the practical and conceptual utility of Lacan’s discourse theory for rhetorical studies by advancing X as analyst against the cultural logic of the Firearm, a logic of domination I model via the Discourse of the Master.
Journal of Communication, 2019
Mass communication was one of the central signs through which communication research constituted ... more Mass communication was one of the central signs through which communication research constituted itself in the post-World War II era. An American term, it indexed and communicatively advanced the problematization of media that took shape from the 1920s onward. Recently, scholars have debated the term’s continued relevance, typically without awareness of its history or international contexts of use. To provide needed background and enrich efforts to globalize the field, we offer a transnational history of mass communication, illuminating the sociological, cultural, and geopolitical dynamics of its emergence, dissemination, and reception. Mapping locations of its adoption, adaption, and rejection across
world regions, we offer a methodology and a historical narrative to shed light on the early globalization of the field and lines of power and resistance that shaped it. We show how the term carries residue of postwar American hegemony and argue for greater reflexive awareness of our vocabularies of inquiry.
Argumentation and Advocacy, 2018
Mladen Dolar’s theorization of voice is one that, in addition to its significance and aesthetics,... more Mladen Dolar’s theorization of voice is one that, in addition to its significance and aesthetics, posits a third faculty: voice as object. As a primary locus for the Lacanian objet petit a, an understanding of voice as object underscores the role of desire in hearing bodily sound. This essay turns to the striking sonorities of two public intellectuals, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., to demonstrate the effects of this object voice, reducible neither to what it says nor what it sounds like.
Authors:
Carolyn R. Miller
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
emerita
Lynda Walsh
Universit... more Authors:
Carolyn R. Miller
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
emerita
Lynda Walsh
University of Nevada, Reno
James Wynn
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Ashley Rose Kelly
University of Waterloo, Ontario
Kenneth C. Walker
University of Arizona, Tucson
William J. White
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Emily Winderman
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Contributing Authors:
Contributing Authors:
Oren Abeles, Nathan H. Bedsole, Maryn Belling, Matthew P.
Brigham, Danny Card, Danielle DeVasto, Jean Goodwin, S.
Scott Graham, Chris Ingraham, Molly Hartzog, Chad Iwertz,
Meredith Johnson, Nathan Johnson, Sean Kamperman, Molly
Kessler, Candice Lanius, Zoltan Majdik, Jennifer Malkowski,
Sara Parks, Alex C. Parrish, Pamela Pietrucci, Aimée Kendall
Roundtree, Dawn Shepherd, Karen Taylor, Bonnie Tucker, Ron
Von Burg, Greg Wilson
Poroi 12,1 (May 2016)
Keywords: rhetorical agency, rhetoric of science, science
communication, automation, biopolitics, publics theory, risk
Abstract:
This manifesto presents positions arrived at after a day-long symposium on agency in science communication at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015. During morning sessions, participants in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine preconference presented individual research on agency in response to a call to articulate key problems that must be solved in the next five years to better understand and support rhetorical agency in massively automated and mediated science communication situations in a world-risk context. In the afternoon, participants convened in discussion groups around four topoi that emerged from the morning’s presentations: automation, biopolitics, publics, and risk. Groups were tasked with answering three questions about their assigned topos: What are the critical controversies surrounding it? What are its pivotal rhetorical and technical terms? And what scholarly questions must be addressed in the next five years to yield a just and effective discourse in this area? Groups also assembled capsule bibliographies of sources core to their topos. At the end of the afternoon, Carolyn R. Miller presented a reply to the groups’ work; that reply serves as the headnote to this manifesto.
Soundscapes by Nathan H Bedsole
Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change, 2018
"Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was once a global economic powerhouse. In the shadow of R. J. Rey... more "Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was once a global economic powerhouse. In the shadow of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and its Camel brand cigarettes, the “Camel City” has repurposed the tobacco warehouses of its past into the biotechnological campuses of Wake Forest University—the city’s promised economic future. Exiting decades of memorial and physical vacancy, these structures now structure public memory in ways that carefully and rhetorically negotiate the nostalgia of economic success and the promise of its episodic renewal.
This soundscape troubles the linearity of technological progress and invites its listener into the temporal density at the heart of “urban renewal” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and at Wake Forest University. Our composition transforms archival materials and contemporary artifacts into a radically new and present composition that amplifies the ongoing diachronic, rhetorical intersections of public health, public memory, and place. Affecting the affordances of magnetic tape, our soundscape troubles pitch and pace alike to suggest a striking inertia to R. J. Reynolds’ impact on the lived body (politic) of Winston-Salem, one best evoked through the sonic archive.
As such, our piece sounds a renewed attention to the classic Camel campaign, “Ask your doctor about a lighter cigarette.” While attention to Camel begets a lush visual history of advertisement, its sonic artifacts betray a connection to medical authority carried over almost exactly into the city’s biotechnological present and promised future. We implore our listener to hear the myriad voices made possible by what R. J. Reynolds brought to the region.”
Excerpt From: Rice; Graham; and Detweiler. “Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change.” Apple Books.
Dissertation by Nathan H Bedsole
Bedsole, Nathan Henry (Ph.D., Communication) An Always Lost Voice: Rhetoric and Politics during T... more Bedsole, Nathan Henry (Ph.D., Communication) An Always Lost Voice: Rhetoric and Politics during Trump Dissertation directed by Professor Peter D. Simonson
MA Thesis by Nathan H Bedsole
Papers by Nathan H Bedsole
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Journal of Communication
Mass communication was one of the central signs through which communication research constituted ... more Mass communication was one of the central signs through which communication research constituted itself in the post-World War II era. An American term, it indexed and communicatively advanced the problematization of media that took shape from the 1920s onward. Recently, scholars have debated the term’s continued relevance, typically without awareness of its history or international contexts of use. To provide needed background and enrich efforts to globalize the field, we offer a transnational history of mass communication, illuminating the sociological, cultural, and geopolitical dynamics of its emergence, dissemination, and reception. Mapping locations of its adoption, adaption, and rejection across world regions, we offer a methodology and a historical narrative to shed light on the early globalization of the field and lines of power and resistance that shaped it. We show how the term carries a residue of postwar American hegemony, and argue for greater reflexive awareness of our...
Argumentation and Advocacy
Abstract Mladen Dolar’s theorization of voice is one that, in addition to its significance and ae... more Abstract Mladen Dolar’s theorization of voice is one that, in addition to its significance and aesthetics, posits a third faculty: voice as object. As a primary locus for the Lacanian objet petit a, an understanding of voice as object underscores the role of desire in hearing bodily sound. This essay turns to the striking sonorities of two public intellectuals, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., to demonstrate the effects of this object voice, reducible neither to what it says nor what it sounds like.
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Journal Articles by Nathan H Bedsole
world regions, we offer a methodology and a historical narrative to shed light on the early globalization of the field and lines of power and resistance that shaped it. We show how the term carries residue of postwar American hegemony and argue for greater reflexive awareness of our vocabularies of inquiry.
Carolyn R. Miller
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
emerita
Lynda Walsh
University of Nevada, Reno
James Wynn
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Ashley Rose Kelly
University of Waterloo, Ontario
Kenneth C. Walker
University of Arizona, Tucson
William J. White
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Emily Winderman
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Contributing Authors:
Contributing Authors:
Oren Abeles, Nathan H. Bedsole, Maryn Belling, Matthew P.
Brigham, Danny Card, Danielle DeVasto, Jean Goodwin, S.
Scott Graham, Chris Ingraham, Molly Hartzog, Chad Iwertz,
Meredith Johnson, Nathan Johnson, Sean Kamperman, Molly
Kessler, Candice Lanius, Zoltan Majdik, Jennifer Malkowski,
Sara Parks, Alex C. Parrish, Pamela Pietrucci, Aimée Kendall
Roundtree, Dawn Shepherd, Karen Taylor, Bonnie Tucker, Ron
Von Burg, Greg Wilson
Poroi 12,1 (May 2016)
Keywords: rhetorical agency, rhetoric of science, science
communication, automation, biopolitics, publics theory, risk
Abstract:
This manifesto presents positions arrived at after a day-long symposium on agency in science communication at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015. During morning sessions, participants in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine preconference presented individual research on agency in response to a call to articulate key problems that must be solved in the next five years to better understand and support rhetorical agency in massively automated and mediated science communication situations in a world-risk context. In the afternoon, participants convened in discussion groups around four topoi that emerged from the morning’s presentations: automation, biopolitics, publics, and risk. Groups were tasked with answering three questions about their assigned topos: What are the critical controversies surrounding it? What are its pivotal rhetorical and technical terms? And what scholarly questions must be addressed in the next five years to yield a just and effective discourse in this area? Groups also assembled capsule bibliographies of sources core to their topos. At the end of the afternoon, Carolyn R. Miller presented a reply to the groups’ work; that reply serves as the headnote to this manifesto.
Soundscapes by Nathan H Bedsole
This soundscape troubles the linearity of technological progress and invites its listener into the temporal density at the heart of “urban renewal” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and at Wake Forest University. Our composition transforms archival materials and contemporary artifacts into a radically new and present composition that amplifies the ongoing diachronic, rhetorical intersections of public health, public memory, and place. Affecting the affordances of magnetic tape, our soundscape troubles pitch and pace alike to suggest a striking inertia to R. J. Reynolds’ impact on the lived body (politic) of Winston-Salem, one best evoked through the sonic archive.
As such, our piece sounds a renewed attention to the classic Camel campaign, “Ask your doctor about a lighter cigarette.” While attention to Camel begets a lush visual history of advertisement, its sonic artifacts betray a connection to medical authority carried over almost exactly into the city’s biotechnological present and promised future. We implore our listener to hear the myriad voices made possible by what R. J. Reynolds brought to the region.”
Excerpt From: Rice; Graham; and Detweiler. “Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change.” Apple Books.
Dissertation by Nathan H Bedsole
MA Thesis by Nathan H Bedsole
Papers by Nathan H Bedsole
world regions, we offer a methodology and a historical narrative to shed light on the early globalization of the field and lines of power and resistance that shaped it. We show how the term carries residue of postwar American hegemony and argue for greater reflexive awareness of our vocabularies of inquiry.
Carolyn R. Miller
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
emerita
Lynda Walsh
University of Nevada, Reno
James Wynn
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Ashley Rose Kelly
University of Waterloo, Ontario
Kenneth C. Walker
University of Arizona, Tucson
William J. White
Pennsylvania State University, Altoona
Emily Winderman
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Contributing Authors:
Contributing Authors:
Oren Abeles, Nathan H. Bedsole, Maryn Belling, Matthew P.
Brigham, Danny Card, Danielle DeVasto, Jean Goodwin, S.
Scott Graham, Chris Ingraham, Molly Hartzog, Chad Iwertz,
Meredith Johnson, Nathan Johnson, Sean Kamperman, Molly
Kessler, Candice Lanius, Zoltan Majdik, Jennifer Malkowski,
Sara Parks, Alex C. Parrish, Pamela Pietrucci, Aimée Kendall
Roundtree, Dawn Shepherd, Karen Taylor, Bonnie Tucker, Ron
Von Burg, Greg Wilson
Poroi 12,1 (May 2016)
Keywords: rhetorical agency, rhetoric of science, science
communication, automation, biopolitics, publics theory, risk
Abstract:
This manifesto presents positions arrived at after a day-long symposium on agency in science communication at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, November 18, 2015. During morning sessions, participants in the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine preconference presented individual research on agency in response to a call to articulate key problems that must be solved in the next five years to better understand and support rhetorical agency in massively automated and mediated science communication situations in a world-risk context. In the afternoon, participants convened in discussion groups around four topoi that emerged from the morning’s presentations: automation, biopolitics, publics, and risk. Groups were tasked with answering three questions about their assigned topos: What are the critical controversies surrounding it? What are its pivotal rhetorical and technical terms? And what scholarly questions must be addressed in the next five years to yield a just and effective discourse in this area? Groups also assembled capsule bibliographies of sources core to their topos. At the end of the afternoon, Carolyn R. Miller presented a reply to the groups’ work; that reply serves as the headnote to this manifesto.
This soundscape troubles the linearity of technological progress and invites its listener into the temporal density at the heart of “urban renewal” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and at Wake Forest University. Our composition transforms archival materials and contemporary artifacts into a radically new and present composition that amplifies the ongoing diachronic, rhetorical intersections of public health, public memory, and place. Affecting the affordances of magnetic tape, our soundscape troubles pitch and pace alike to suggest a striking inertia to R. J. Reynolds’ impact on the lived body (politic) of Winston-Salem, one best evoked through the sonic archive.
As such, our piece sounds a renewed attention to the classic Camel campaign, “Ask your doctor about a lighter cigarette.” While attention to Camel begets a lush visual history of advertisement, its sonic artifacts betray a connection to medical authority carried over almost exactly into the city’s biotechnological present and promised future. We implore our listener to hear the myriad voices made possible by what R. J. Reynolds brought to the region.”
Excerpt From: Rice; Graham; and Detweiler. “Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric's Change.” Apple Books.