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Research paper thumbnail of Feminisms, Publics, and Rhetorical Indirections: Figuring Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, 1905-1930

Research paper thumbnail of A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Rhetoric Review, Dec 22, 2009

... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their corre... more ... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their correspondence well into Harry's first pursuit of a medical education, which failed due to his emerging alcoholism—an issue his daughter would struggle with as well (Bissell Brown 119). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

Quarterly Journal of Speech, Jun 13, 2016

ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that dist... more ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media, recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical individual but, instead, in the relationships between her mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism, socialism, and pragmatism in the life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887--1941

Research paper thumbnail of Figuring Vice

Research paper thumbnail of Feminisms, Publics, and Rhetorical Indirections: Figuring Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, 1905-1930

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2016

ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that dist... more ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media, recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical individual but, instead, in the relationships between her mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Rhetoric Review, 2009

... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their corre... more ... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their correspondence well into Harry's first pursuit of a medical education, which failed due to his emerging alcoholism—an issue his daughter would struggle with as well (Bissell Brown 119). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism, socialism, and pragmatism in the life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887--1941

This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Ju... more This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Julius. Marcet’s life demonstrates the important intersections between class, gender, politics, and individual agency that unfolded against a backdrop of fascinating historical characters, including her aunt Jane Addams, her husband Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the largest publisher in the world, W.E.B. Du Bois, and John Dewey. In this thesis, I trace her early life including her parents’ relationship and her family’s tense relation with Jane Addams and the family’s relationship with The Appeal to Reason, the large socialist newspaper published out of their town. Marcet’s marriage draws her into the milieu of American socialism but also into the difficult terrain of gendered subordination. I document Marcet’s emergence out of marital strife and into the public sphere, a sphere she helps create with her own feminist writing, writing that helps to excel the Haldeman-Juliuses to the position of t...

Research paper thumbnail of Figuring Vice

Research paper thumbnail of Intertextual Networks, Recursive Adaptation, and Progressive Politics in John T. McCutcheon’s “Women’s Work,” 1909-1912

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Hearts and Minds

Research paper thumbnail of Victimless Leather: Toward a New Materialist Ethics of Invention

"Victimless Leather: Toward A New Materialist Ethics of Invention", 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Hearts and Minds: Posthumanism, Kairos, and Technical Communication is US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency

An archaeology of military manuals from the second World War to engagements in Iraq and Afghanist... more An archaeology of military manuals from the second World War to engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan in the middle 2000s, this chapter traces the lateralization of military rhetoric and the redistribution of agency and force in counterinsurgency. An ostensibly posthuman strategy, one that takes account of low-contrast actants, both human and nonhuman, turns out to be an ethically unwieldy and kairotically dubious occupation-lite.

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed a... more This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman
rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been
theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting
one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the
importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media,
recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical
individual but, instead, in the relationships between her
mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary
artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the
Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular
brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the
essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in
the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to
historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of "Negotiating the Middle Border: Ambivalent Rhetorics of White Anti-Racism in 1920s Kansas"

Research paper thumbnail of "Intertextual Networks, Recursive Adaptation, and Progressive Politics in John T. McCutcheon's 'Women's Work,' 1909-1912"

Research paper thumbnail of "Rhetorics of Indirection, Indiscretion, Insurrection: The 'Feminine Style' of Anita Loos, 1912-1925"

Research paper thumbnail of "A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921-1936"

Co-owning and writing for one of the world’s largest private publishing houses inthe1920sand1930s... more Co-owning and writing for one of the world’s largest private publishing houses inthe1920sand1930s,MarcetHaldeman-Julius’s(1887–1941)positionshould have guaranteed her a place in American women’s literary history. Haldeman- Julius’s socialist and feminist exigency, though, was elided by a complex and emotionally abusive marriage to her editor and publisher, Emanuel Haldeman- Julius, whose final approval represented her chance to effectively enter the pub- lic sphere. This study recovers Haldeman-Julius’s work and traces her signifi- cant attempts to negotiate the paradox of writing as a feminist in ways rhetorically coded to escape certain audiences and to activate others.

Research paper thumbnail of Feminisms, Publics, and Rhetorical Indirections: Figuring Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, 1905-1930

Research paper thumbnail of A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Rhetoric Review, Dec 22, 2009

... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their corre... more ... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their correspondence well into Harry's first pursuit of a medical education, which failed due to his emerging alcoholism—an issue his daughter would struggle with as well (Bissell Brown 119). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

Quarterly Journal of Speech, Jun 13, 2016

ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that dist... more ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media, recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical individual but, instead, in the relationships between her mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism, socialism, and pragmatism in the life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887--1941

Research paper thumbnail of Figuring Vice

Research paper thumbnail of Feminisms, Publics, and Rhetorical Indirections: Figuring Marcet Haldeman-Julius, Anita Loos, and Mae West, 1905-1930

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2016

ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that dist... more ABSTRACT This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media, recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical individual but, instead, in the relationships between her mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921–1936

Rhetoric Review, 2009

... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their corre... more ... 07350190903415164 Jason Barrett-Fox a pages 14-30. ... The two siblings continued their correspondence well into Harry's first pursuit of a medical education, which failed due to his emerging alcoholism—an issue his daughter would struggle with as well (Bissell Brown 119). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Untimely Women: Radically Recasting Feminist Rhetorical History

Research paper thumbnail of Feminism, socialism, and pragmatism in the life of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1887--1941

This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Ju... more This thesis is an important intellectual, political, and cultural biography of Marcet Haldeman-Julius. Marcet’s life demonstrates the important intersections between class, gender, politics, and individual agency that unfolded against a backdrop of fascinating historical characters, including her aunt Jane Addams, her husband Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, the largest publisher in the world, W.E.B. Du Bois, and John Dewey. In this thesis, I trace her early life including her parents’ relationship and her family’s tense relation with Jane Addams and the family’s relationship with The Appeal to Reason, the large socialist newspaper published out of their town. Marcet’s marriage draws her into the milieu of American socialism but also into the difficult terrain of gendered subordination. I document Marcet’s emergence out of marital strife and into the public sphere, a sphere she helps create with her own feminist writing, writing that helps to excel the Haldeman-Juliuses to the position of t...

Research paper thumbnail of Figuring Vice

Research paper thumbnail of Intertextual Networks, Recursive Adaptation, and Progressive Politics in John T. McCutcheon’s “Women’s Work,” 1909-1912

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Hearts and Minds

Research paper thumbnail of Victimless Leather: Toward a New Materialist Ethics of Invention

"Victimless Leather: Toward A New Materialist Ethics of Invention", 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Hearts and Minds: Posthumanism, Kairos, and Technical Communication is US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency

An archaeology of military manuals from the second World War to engagements in Iraq and Afghanist... more An archaeology of military manuals from the second World War to engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan in the middle 2000s, this chapter traces the lateralization of military rhetoric and the redistribution of agency and force in counterinsurgency. An ostensibly posthuman strategy, one that takes account of low-contrast actants, both human and nonhuman, turns out to be an ethically unwieldy and kairotically dubious occupation-lite.

Research paper thumbnail of Posthuman feminism and the rhetoric of silent cinema: Distributed agency, ontic media, and the possibility of a networked historiography

This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman rhetoric: Now that distributed a... more This essay pursues a pressing question in the study of posthuman
rhetoric: Now that distributed agency has, to a degree, been
theorized, to what use can it be put by feminists? In attempting
one provisional response, the essay argues on behalf of the
importance of a posthuman conception of ontic media,
recuperating feminist agency not within a particular historical
individual but, instead, in the relationships between her
mediational networks and their nodes. Taking as its primary
artifact Anita Loos’s groundbreaking 1916 film His Picture in the
Papers, the essay historicizes and articulates Loos’s particular
brand of indirect-qua-distributed feminist agency. In doing so, the
essay gestures more broadly toward the role of such networks in
the recovery of feminist critiques previously resistant to
historicization due to their distributed nature.

Research paper thumbnail of "Negotiating the Middle Border: Ambivalent Rhetorics of White Anti-Racism in 1920s Kansas"

Research paper thumbnail of "Intertextual Networks, Recursive Adaptation, and Progressive Politics in John T. McCutcheon's 'Women's Work,' 1909-1912"

Research paper thumbnail of "Rhetorics of Indirection, Indiscretion, Insurrection: The 'Feminine Style' of Anita Loos, 1912-1925"

Research paper thumbnail of "A Rhetorical Recovery: Self-Avowal and Self-Displacement in the Life, Fiction, and Nonfiction of Marcet Haldeman-Julius, 1921-1936"

Co-owning and writing for one of the world’s largest private publishing houses inthe1920sand1930s... more Co-owning and writing for one of the world’s largest private publishing houses inthe1920sand1930s,MarcetHaldeman-Julius’s(1887–1941)positionshould have guaranteed her a place in American women’s literary history. Haldeman- Julius’s socialist and feminist exigency, though, was elided by a complex and emotionally abusive marriage to her editor and publisher, Emanuel Haldeman- Julius, whose final approval represented her chance to effectively enter the pub- lic sphere. This study recovers Haldeman-Julius’s work and traces her signifi- cant attempts to negotiate the paradox of writing as a feminist in ways rhetorically coded to escape certain audiences and to activate others.