Description:
Best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, Bruno Latour has inspired scholarship across many disciplines. In the past few years, the fields of rhetoric and composition have witnessed an explosion of interest in Latour's work. Editors Paul Lynch and Nathaniel Rivers have assembled leading and emerging scholars in order to continue and focus the debate over what Latour means for the study of persuasion and written communication.
Brief description: Jeff Rice is the chair and a professor of writing, rhetoric, and digital studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author, the editor, or a coeditor of six previous books.
Review Quotes: "This intelligent, timely, diversely focused, diversely assembled, and at times playful collection of essays provides readers with ways of thinking about, and thinking through, Latour and various dimensions of his work in relation to current issues and concerns in rhetoric and composition studies. This is a collection that will be used both widely and frequently, one sure to generate a lot of discussion."--Jody Shipka, author of Toward a Composition Made Whole