Joshua Trey Barnett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4815433 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joshua Trey Barnett |
| NOMBRES | Joshua Trey |
| APELLIDO | Barnett |
| FIRMA | BARNETT J T |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6433-4232 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Unsettling Silence
Refuge amidst the ruins
The scales of ecological care
In this essay, I explore the scalar and rhetorical dimensions of care. On one hand, I argue, care can be calibrated to different scales, and caring at one scale often involves neglect or harm at another. On the other hand, I claim that decisions to care at one scale rather than another emerge in particular rhetorical ecologies within which certain things are made to matter more than others. Scale and rhetoric productively, if also frustratingly, …
Overdose deaths before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in a US county
Introduction: Globally, overdose deaths increased near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created availability and access barriers to addiction and social services. Especially in times of a crisis like a pandemic, local exposures, service availability and access, and system responses have major influence on people who use drugs. For policy makers to be effective, an understanding at the local level is needed. Methods: This retrospectiv…
Unthinking care
Within and beyond the field of communication, invocations of "care" are rising.In this brief essay, I complicate how scholars of communication relate to care as a feeling, practice, ethics, and politics in two ways.First, I uncover several complexities inherent to carecare's partiality, relation to neglect, and frequent entanglement with violence/harm.Second, I suggest that scholars of communication should bring our distinctive theoretical and me…
Imagining More-Than-Human Care
In the Western imaginary, care has long been pictured as a distinctly human activity—an activity undertaken primarily by women—and the paradigmatic image of caregiving has been that of a mother tending to her child. Increasingly, though, both the matricentricity and the anthropocentricity of care are being scrutinized as scholars advocate for more egalitarian and, in a few cases, more ecological conceptions of care. Examples of more-than-human ca…
Mourning in the Anthropocene
From Ecological Grief to Gelassenheit
This article presents a reading of Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, a 2014 collection of essays authored by Harvard Forest ecologists that addresses the ongoing destruction of the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Introduced to the eastern U.S. in the early 1950s, the hemlock woolly adelgid has been slowly but surely decimating the eastern hemlock across most of its native range. Hemlock offers an account of the species’ history of decline …
Rhetoric for Earthly Coexistence
What obligations do scholars of rhetoric and public address have to understand, address, and sustain the conditions of earthly coexistence? Only if the field of rhetoric embraces a genuinely ecological notion of rhetoric, the author argues, and only if we collectively commit to addressing the ecological dimensions of our various objects of study, can we truly give back to the earth in ways that honor all that it has given, and continues to give, …
Opening Moves
Oscillating between naturalistic observations and conceptual forays, this essay simultaneously performs and introduces the notion of “composing climate change” at the heart of this special issue. Spanning personal narrative, poetry, dialogue, theoretical meditation, thick description, photographic essay, and other modes of scholarly writing, the contributors to this issue experiment with genre, style, and form as they seek to describe, evoke, gra…
Introduction
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and
Irrational hope, phenological writing, and the prospects of earthly coexistence
“We’re fucked.” So writes Roy Scranton in the opening chapter of his evocatively titled little book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. “The only questions,” Scranton laments, “are how soon and h
The conditions that form us
Under what conditions is social change possible today? The essays comprising this special issue grapple, each in their own way, with this question. Together, the authors contend that any attempt to understand social change must attend to the conditions of possibility for transformations of any kind, as well as the forces that condition us to feel, think, and act (differently). In these opening pages, we trace this underlying thread through to its…
Naming, Mourning, and the Work of Earthly Coexistence
Setting out from Jacques Derrida’s assertion that every act of naming is “a foreshadowing of mourning” ([2008. The animal that therefore I am. (M.-L. Mallet, Ed., D. Wills, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press], p. 20), this paper argues that the work of earthly coexistence is underwritten by the intertwined practices of naming and mourning. The paper demonstrates that names provide access to and shape our perceptions of earthly entiti…
Energy Communication
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Politics of Edibility
Taking the Infinity Burial Project (IBP) as its inspiration, this essay theorizes a politics of edibility by way of decomposing the discursive boundaries erected between human bodies and environments. In particular, this essay reads the IBP as a deconstruction of another dualism—eater/eaten—that permeates and informs cultural practices from birth to burial. Mobilizing a rhetoric of carnality, the IBP decomposes the human body's relation to its en…
Catching Sight
In a sequence of passing glimpses—at turns theoretical, personal, and analytical—this essay considers the humble but forceful glance as a vital mode of queer world-making. Setting out from Alex Wong’s photograph of Carson Jones conspicuously cutting eyes at Vice President Mike Pence during Doug Jones’s senatorial swearing-in on January 3, 2018, this essay explores the subjective, relational, and communal modes through which glancing exerts force.…
The Impact of Peer Support on the Risk of Future Hospital Readmissions among Older Adults with a Medical Illness and Co-Occurring Depression
Older adults account for 60% of all preventable hospital readmissions. Although not all readmissions are preventable, evidence indicates that up to 75% of hospital readmissions can be prevented with enhanced patient education, pre-discharge assessment, and effective care upon discharge. Social support, specifically peer support, after discharge from hospital may be a crucial factor in minimizing the risk of preventable hospital readmission. The p…
The Ecological Awareness of an Anthropocene Philosopher
Ecological awareness is going to feel weird in the Anthropocene. Consider how thinking about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch troubles your sense of scale and responsibility. Floating in the Pacific
Thinking ecologically with Judith Butler
This essay traces several productive points of overlap and departure between the recent philosophical work of Judith Butler and ecological thinking. While ecological philosophers and theorists have often dismissed Butler's treatment of politics and ethics as narrowly anthropocentric, this essay charges that there are considerable conceptual resources within Butler's oeuvre that are not only in accord with much recent ecological theorising but whi…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Covert Operation
In this essay, the authors pose and respond to three questions about their process of generating and contributing to an archive of transgender military experiences: First, why create an archive of transgender military experiences? Second, what constitutes such an archive? And, third, what are the political stakes of doing this work? By tracing their experiences, the authors offer insights, chart challenges, and lay bare their hopes for an archive…
Toxic Portraits
This essay conceptualizes “toxic portraits,” close-up, in situ photographs of people in toxically assaulted places. Toxic portraits articulate the multiple invisibilities attending environmental injustice through a series of visible indexical signs. As a result, toxic portraits enable spectators to see the precariousness of life as dramatized in human relationships to the environments in which we live. Drawing on the “subjunctive voice of the vis…
Observation Points
Book Review| September 01 2014 Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks. Edited by Thomas Patin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; pp. xxvi + 296. $82.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Joshua Trey Barnett Joshua Trey Barnett Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 568–571. https://doi.org/…
We Are All Royalty
Drag performances have been studied time and time again as important visible leisure spaces of gender transgression. Few studies, however, have sought to understand the ways in which drag performers—kings and queens—relate to and shape queer communities. Using gen-derqueer as a theoretical lens and narrative inquiry as a methodological strategy, in this article we construct a conversation between a drag queen and king to demonstrate the ways in w…
Mourning in the Anthropocene
We Are All Royalty
Drag performances have been studied time and time again as important visible leisure spaces of gender transgression. Few studies, however, have sought to understand the ways in which drag performers—kings and queens—relate to and shape queer communities. Using gen-derqueer as a theoretical lens and narrative inquiry as a methodological strategy, in this article we construct a conversation between a drag queen and king to demonstrate the ways in w…
Naming, Mourning, and the Work of Earthly Coexistence
Setting out from Jacques Derrida’s assertion that every act of naming is “a foreshadowing of mourning” ([2008. The animal that therefore I am. (M.-L. Mallet, Ed., D. Wills, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press], p. 20), this paper argues that the work of earthly coexistence is underwritten by the intertwined practices of naming and mourning. The paper demonstrates that names provide access to and shape our perceptions of earthly entiti…
Thinking ecologically with Judith Butler
This essay traces several productive points of overlap and departure between the recent philosophical work of Judith Butler and ecological thinking. While ecological philosophers and theorists have often dismissed Butler's treatment of politics and ethics as narrowly anthropocentric, this essay charges that there are considerable conceptual resources within Butler's oeuvre that are not only in accord with much recent ecological theorising but whi…
The scales of ecological care
In this essay, I explore the scalar and rhetorical dimensions of care. On one hand, I argue, care can be calibrated to different scales, and caring at one scale often involves neglect or harm at another. On the other hand, I claim that decisions to care at one scale rather than another emerge in particular rhetorical ecologies within which certain things are made to matter more than others. Scale and rhetoric productively, if also frustratingly, …
The Ecological Awareness of an Anthropocene Philosopher
Ecological awareness is going to feel weird in the Anthropocene. Consider how thinking about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch troubles your sense of scale and responsibility. Floating in the Pacific
Rhetoric for Earthly Coexistence
What obligations do scholars of rhetoric and public address have to understand, address, and sustain the conditions of earthly coexistence? Only if the field of rhetoric embraces a genuinely ecological notion of rhetoric, the author argues, and only if we collectively commit to addressing the ecological dimensions of our various objects of study, can we truly give back to the earth in ways that honor all that it has given, and continues to give, …
Irrational hope, phenological writing, and the prospects of earthly coexistence
“We’re fucked.” So writes Roy Scranton in the opening chapter of his evocatively titled little book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. “The only questions,” Scranton laments, “are how soon and h
The conditions that form us
Under what conditions is social change possible today? The essays comprising this special issue grapple, each in their own way, with this question. Together, the authors contend that any attempt to understand social change must attend to the conditions of possibility for transformations of any kind, as well as the forces that condition us to feel, think, and act (differently). In these opening pages, we trace this underlying thread through to its…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Toxic Portraits
This essay conceptualizes “toxic portraits,” close-up, in situ photographs of people in toxically assaulted places. Toxic portraits articulate the multiple invisibilities attending environmental injustice through a series of visible indexical signs. As a result, toxic portraits enable spectators to see the precariousness of life as dramatized in human relationships to the environments in which we live. Drawing on the “subjunctive voice of the vis…
We Are All Royalty
Drag performances have been studied time and time again as important visible leisure spaces of gender transgression. Few studies, however, have sought to understand the ways in which drag performers—kings and queens—relate to and shape queer communities. Using gen-derqueer as a theoretical lens and narrative inquiry as a methodological strategy, in this article we construct a conversation between a drag queen and king to demonstrate the ways in w…
Observation Points
Book Review| September 01 2014 Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks. Edited by Thomas Patin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012; pp. xxvi + 296. $82.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. Joshua Trey Barnett Joshua Trey Barnett Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2014) 17 (3): 568–571. https://doi.org/…
Covert Operation
In this essay, the authors pose and respond to three questions about their process of generating and contributing to an archive of transgender military experiences: First, why create an archive of transgender military experiences? Second, what constitutes such an archive? And, third, what are the political stakes of doing this work? By tracing their experiences, the authors offer insights, chart challenges, and lay bare their hopes for an archive…
Toxic Portraits
This essay conceptualizes “toxic portraits,” close-up, in situ photographs of people in toxically assaulted places. Toxic portraits articulate the multiple invisibilities attending environmental injustice through a series of visible indexical signs. As a result, toxic portraits enable spectators to see the precariousness of life as dramatized in human relationships to the environments in which we live. Drawing on the “subjunctive voice of the vis…
Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis
We review energy communication, an emerging subfield of communication studies that examines the role of energy in society, and argue that it is dominated by a crisis frame. Whereas this frame can be productive, it can also be limiting. In response, we propose three areas for future energy communication research—internal rhetoric of science, comparative studies, and energy in everyday life—as starting points for rethinking and expanding energy com…
Thinking ecologically with Judith Butler
This essay traces several productive points of overlap and departure between the recent philosophical work of Judith Butler and ecological thinking. While ecological philosophers and theorists have often dismissed Butler's treatment of politics and ethics as narrowly anthropocentric, this essay charges that there are considerable conceptual resources within Butler's oeuvre that are not only in accord with much recent ecological theorising but whi…
Energy Communication
This essay comments and expands upon an emerging area of research, energy communication, that shares with environmental communication the fraught commitment to simultaneously study communication as an ordinary yet potentially transformative practice, and a strategic endeavour to catalyse change. We begin by defining and situating energy communication within ongoing work on the discursive dimensions of energy extraction, production, distribution, …
Politics of Edibility
Taking the Infinity Burial Project (IBP) as its inspiration, this essay theorizes a politics of edibility by way of decomposing the discursive boundaries erected between human bodies and environments. In particular, this essay reads the IBP as a deconstruction of another dualism—eater/eaten—that permeates and informs cultural practices from birth to burial. Mobilizing a rhetoric of carnality, the IBP decomposes the human body's relation to its en…
Catching Sight
In a sequence of passing glimpses—at turns theoretical, personal, and analytical—this essay considers the humble but forceful glance as a vital mode of queer world-making. Setting out from Alex Wong’s photograph of Carson Jones conspicuously cutting eyes at Vice President Mike Pence during Doug Jones’s senatorial swearing-in on January 3, 2018, this essay explores the subjective, relational, and communal modes through which glancing exerts force.…
The Impact of Peer Support on the Risk of Future Hospital Readmissions among Older Adults with a Medical Illness and Co-Occurring Depression
Older adults account for 60% of all preventable hospital readmissions. Although not all readmissions are preventable, evidence indicates that up to 75% of hospital readmissions can be prevented with enhanced patient education, pre-discharge assessment, and effective care upon discharge. Social support, specifically peer support, after discharge from hospital may be a crucial factor in minimizing the risk of preventable hospital readmission. The p…
The Ecological Awareness of an Anthropocene Philosopher
Ecological awareness is going to feel weird in the Anthropocene. Consider how thinking about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch troubles your sense of scale and responsibility. Floating in the Pacific
Introduction
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and
Irrational hope, phenological writing, and the prospects of earthly coexistence
“We’re fucked.” So writes Roy Scranton in the opening chapter of his evocatively titled little book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene. “The only questions,” Scranton laments, “are how soon and h
The conditions that form us
Under what conditions is social change possible today? The essays comprising this special issue grapple, each in their own way, with this question. Together, the authors contend that any attempt to understand social change must attend to the conditions of possibility for transformations of any kind, as well as the forces that condition us to feel, think, and act (differently). In these opening pages, we trace this underlying thread through to its…
Naming, Mourning, and the Work of Earthly Coexistence
Setting out from Jacques Derrida’s assertion that every act of naming is “a foreshadowing of mourning” ([2008. The animal that therefore I am. (M.-L. Mallet, Ed., D. Wills, Trans.). New York, NY: Fordham University Press], p. 20), this paper argues that the work of earthly coexistence is underwritten by the intertwined practices of naming and mourning. The paper demonstrates that names provide access to and shape our perceptions of earthly entiti…
Opening Moves
Oscillating between naturalistic observations and conceptual forays, this essay simultaneously performs and introduces the notion of “composing climate change” at the heart of this special issue. Spanning personal narrative, poetry, dialogue, theoretical meditation, thick description, photographic essay, and other modes of scholarly writing, the contributors to this issue experiment with genre, style, and form as they seek to describe, evoke, gra…
From Ecological Grief to Gelassenheit
This article presents a reading of Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, a 2014 collection of essays authored by Harvard Forest ecologists that addresses the ongoing destruction of the eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Introduced to the eastern U.S. in the early 1950s, the hemlock woolly adelgid has been slowly but surely decimating the eastern hemlock across most of its native range. Hemlock offers an account of the species’ history of decline …
Rhetoric for Earthly Coexistence
What obligations do scholars of rhetoric and public address have to understand, address, and sustain the conditions of earthly coexistence? Only if the field of rhetoric embraces a genuinely ecological notion of rhetoric, the author argues, and only if we collectively commit to addressing the ecological dimensions of our various objects of study, can we truly give back to the earth in ways that honor all that it has given, and continues to give, …
Mourning in the Anthropocene
Imagining More-Than-Human Care
In the Western imaginary, care has long been pictured as a distinctly human activity—an activity undertaken primarily by women—and the paradigmatic image of caregiving has been that of a mother tending to her child. Increasingly, though, both the matricentricity and the anthropocentricity of care are being scrutinized as scholars advocate for more egalitarian and, in a few cases, more ecological conceptions of care. Examples of more-than-human ca…
Overdose deaths before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in a US county
Introduction: Globally, overdose deaths increased near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, which created availability and access barriers to addiction and social services. Especially in times of a crisis like a pandemic, local exposures, service availability and access, and system responses have major influence on people who use drugs. For policy makers to be effective, an understanding at the local level is needed. Methods: This retrospectiv…
Unthinking care
Within and beyond the field of communication, invocations of "care" are rising.In this brief essay, I complicate how scholars of communication relate to care as a feeling, practice, ethics, and politics in two ways.First, I uncover several complexities inherent to carecare's partiality, relation to neglect, and frequent entanglement with violence/harm.Second, I suggest that scholars of communication should bring our distinctive theoretical and me…
Refuge amidst the ruins
The scales of ecological care
In this essay, I explore the scalar and rhetorical dimensions of care. On one hand, I argue, care can be calibrated to different scales, and caring at one scale often involves neglect or harm at another. On the other hand, I claim that decisions to care at one scale rather than another emerge in particular rhetorical ecologies within which certain things are made to matter more than others. Scale and rhetoric productively, if also frustratingly, …
Unsettling Silence
Sociology (18 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Ecology (8 obras) · Environmental ethics (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Biology (7 obras)