nathaniel a. rivers
(@sophist_monster) is an assistant professor of English at Saint Louis University. His current research addresses new materialism's impact on public rhetorics such as environmentalism and urban design. He is at work on a book project currently titled "The Strange Defense of Rhetoric" and an edited collection (w/ Paul Lynch) exploring the impact of Bruno Latour on rhetoric and composition, titled The Object of Rhetoric: Assembling and Disassembling Bruno Latour. His work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Enculturation, Janus Head, O-Zone, and Present Tense. He blogs at pure_sophist_monster.
thomas rickert
is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Purdue University. His areas of interest include the usual suspects: histories and theories of rhetoric, critical theory, composition, cultural studies, music, and digital culture. His first book, Acts of Enjoyment: Rhetoric, Žižek, and the Return of the Subject (U of Pittsburgh P), was published in 2007. His second book, Ambient Rhetoric: The Attunements of Rhetorical Being (U of Pittsburgh P), was published in June 2013. He has begun a third book project that lacks both title and capsule description, but seems to involve the prehistory of rhetoric and a starring role for caves. There may be music.
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A majority of the audio clips sampled here are from songs cited and discussed by Thomas Rickert in Ambient Rhetoric. The remaining clips engage the ambient sources of his book as well as the concept of ambience generally. These audio clips do intellectual, academic work. Audio clips (in this order): Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music for Airports, "1/1"; Sigur Ros ( ), "Untitled 8"; Morphine Cure for Pain, "Cure for Pain"; Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos, "Magazine Called Sunset (Alternate Version)"; The Bird and the Bee Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future, "Phil"; Cat Power The Greatest, "Live in Bars"; Morphine Like Swimming, "Lilah (Instrumental)"; Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music for Airports, "2/2"; Radiohead OK Computer, "Fitter Happier"; Boomtown Rats The Fine Art of Surfacing, "I Don't Like Mondays"; Ween Quebec, "The Fucked Jam."
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