A Clockwork War
Rhetorics of Time in a Time of Terror
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9236438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Stahl (0000-0002-2474-9564, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73-99 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00335630701790826 |
| OpenAlex | W1985130113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 11 |
Expressions of time have increasingly infused the rhetorical experience of post-industrial war, especially since 9/11. This essay demonstrates how these “signs of time” operate as one of three tropes: deadline/countdown, infinite/infinitesimal war, and the ticking clock. The persistence of such signs of time in public discourse can be seen as an expression of what Paul Virilio has called the “chronopolis,” a political universe textured by real-time communication technologies. The chronopolitical will exhibits certain autocratic traits at odds with democratic ideals, primarily the refashioning of citizen identity into that of the “contemporary.” The analysis here charts the autocratic rhetoric of the chronopolis as a critical democratic project
Aesthetics · Art · Autocracy · Democracy · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |