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Author: Ian E. J. Hill (University of British Columbia)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume: 9
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 22.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780271081236
ISBN 10: 0271081236
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 28 August 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Merging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. -Lisa Keranen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits `technological rhetoric' as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as science and technology studies, his longitudinal study of `machine rhetoric' warrants attention both for the cases examined-from Malthus to the Unabomber-and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. -David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Merging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. -Lisa Keranen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits technological rhetoric as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as Science and Technology Studies, his longitudinal study of machine rhetoric warrants attention both for the cases examined-from Malthus to the Unabomber-and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. -David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Merging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. --Lisa Ker�nen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits technological rhetoric as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as Science and Technology Studies, his longitudinal study of machine rhetoric warrants attention both for the cases examined--from Malthus to the Unabomber--and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. --David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Author Information
Ian E. J. Hill is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric at the University of British Columbia and an affiliate faculty member of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies.
