The essays in this book broaden and enrich the scope, at once, of both rhetoric and Barad's theorizing through entangled reworkings of topics ranging from politics to breast cancer, genealogy, the trope of academic "turns," Marx's notion of exchange, and the emergence of human consciousness.

Christopher N. Gamble is a doctoral student in communication at the University of Washington. His work focuses on rhetoric, communication technology, and new materialisms.

Joshua S. Hanan is an associate professor of rhetoric and communication ethics at the University of Denver. His scholarship explores how historically shifting ecological, technological, and economic contexts materially produce and regulate what can and cannot be conceptualized as communicative and rhetorical activity

Foreword

Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan

Introduction: Figures of Entanglement: Toward A Diffractive Understanding of New Materialist Rhetoric

Christopher N. Gamble and Joshua S. Hanan

1. Breast cancer's rhetoricity: bodily border crisis and bridge to corporeal solidarity

Annie Hill

2. Rhetoric's diverse materiality: polythetic ontology and genealogy

Nathan Stormer

3. Of turning and tropes

Diane Marie Keeling

4. Entangled exchange: verkehr and rhetorical capitalism

Matthew W. Bost

5. Rhetorical prehistory and the Paleolithic

Thomas Rickert

Afterword

Laurie E. Gries