Sensory Rhetorics

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"Compelling and timely, Sensory Rhetorics provides bold new pathways for engaging the possibilities of sensation and sensing. These rich essays provoke us to reconsider, or re-sense, what it means to exist in a body among others, alongside material and technological infrastructures, and in the unfolding of still fraught histories. A must-read for scholars invested in theories of affect, embodiment, and materialism."

-Jennifer LeMesurier, author of Inscrutable Eating: Asian Appetites and the Rhetorics of Racial Consumption "This sensational book is about how to do things with and without words! It explores how the senses can be mobilized to persuade people instead of resorting to linguistic tricks alone. Sensory Rhetorics opens a bold new chapter in rhetoric and communication studies. With its essays on disgust, autokinesis, antiracism, environmental injustice, hyperconsumption, digitization, extratextual energies, and suasive force, among other topics, it is a highly welcome contribution to the "sensorial revolution" that is sweeping the humanities and will set a new benchmark."

-David Howes, FRSC, author of The Sensory Studies Manifesto