Donovan Conley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4879888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donovan Conley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donovan |
| FAMILY NAME | Conley |
| SIGNATURE | CONLEY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1990-8054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Phronimos /Taster
This essay theorizes venatic taste as a mode of rhetorical invention: phronesis exercised as perceptual acuity, situated judgment, and ecological responsiveness. Modern Industrial Agriculture preempts three topoi — place, edibility, and quantity — that any food system must address, foreclosing the situated judgments such questions invite. Against this molar foreclosure, we trace a genealogy of foraging molecularity through Epicurus, Cicero, Erasm…
Deliverance
This essay proposes thinking about civic wounds as assemblages. It draws on the historical case of antebellum Cincinnati, where the physical contagion of cholera entangled with the social contagion of slavery in ways that articulated across both cultural and physical domains of activity at once. Taking this approach reveals the ways rhetoric’s pharmakon mediates the operations of delivery within assemblages; I further suggest that the intersectin…
Pained publics
In her contribution to the Quarterly Journal of Speech’s centennial issue, “Pathologia,” Jenny Rice suggests, “pathology does not only or always reveal something broken. Rather, the experience of pathology also reminds us that rhetoric’s sensorium is working—really working” (p. 35). Yes, and in a time of pandemic turbulence, we are reminded that the sensorium of civic life works in ways that shape, even threaten, our collective modes of engagemen…
Imagining China
Rhetorics and Foodways
How we eat—the origin and handling of ingredients; the modes of production and distribution involved; the social contexts of consumption; and the invention and processing applied to the end product
Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance
The Joys of Victimage in George W. Bush's War of Totality
This essay reexamines George W. Bush's post-9/11 rhetoric of escalation for the way it articulated a war of totality with a nationalist sentiment of giddy victimage. My analysis pivots around a speech Mr. Bush delivered in the fall of 2005 at Norfolk Naval Base. Steeped in figures of amplification, the speech is a dramatic exemplar of Mr. Bush's habit of articulating totality with pleasure. His performance conjoined the 'whatever-it-takes' commit…
Writing like a flock
Theories and practices of self-organization have spread broadly in recent decades, through academia to business management to software development to disaster relief planning to progressive political activism, and so on. The question this paper addresses is whether self-organization can also become a viable mode of cultural analysis. Using the experience of January 2007, when a varied group of scholars convened in Las Vegas to ‘swarm’ the Consume…
Virtuoso
Righting the Commons in Red Rock Canyon
In this essay we examine the coil-bound notebooks kept at the summit of Turtlehead Peak in Red Rock Canyon, a recreational hiking trail on the immediate outskirts of Las Vegas. Of the many different sorts of entries, a "nature-culture binary" is the most dominant and unique pattern to be found in the journals. We argue that this nature-culture binary serves as a piece of rhetorical equipment useful for navigating the daunting ecological complexit…
The Joys of Victimage in George W. Bush's War of Totality
This essay reexamines George W. Bush's post-9/11 rhetoric of escalation for the way it articulated a war of totality with a nationalist sentiment of giddy victimage. My analysis pivots around a speech Mr. Bush delivered in the fall of 2005 at Norfolk Naval Base. Steeped in figures of amplification, the speech is a dramatic exemplar of Mr. Bush's habit of articulating totality with pleasure. His performance conjoined the 'whatever-it-takes' commit…
Rhetorics and Foodways
How we eat—the origin and handling of ingredients; the modes of production and distribution involved; the social contexts of consumption; and the invention and processing applied to the end product
Writing like a flock
Theories and practices of self-organization have spread broadly in recent decades, through academia to business management to software development to disaster relief planning to progressive political activism, and so on. The question this paper addresses is whether self-organization can also become a viable mode of cultural analysis. Using the experience of January 2007, when a varied group of scholars convened in Las Vegas to ‘swarm’ the Consume…
Virtuoso
Righting the Commons in Red Rock Canyon
In this essay we examine the coil-bound notebooks kept at the summit of Turtlehead Peak in Red Rock Canyon, a recreational hiking trail on the immediate outskirts of Las Vegas. Of the many different sorts of entries, a "nature-culture binary" is the most dominant and unique pattern to be found in the journals. We argue that this nature-culture binary serves as a piece of rhetorical equipment useful for navigating the daunting ecological complexit…
Virtuoso
Righting the Commons in Red Rock Canyon
In this essay we examine the coil-bound notebooks kept at the summit of Turtlehead Peak in Red Rock Canyon, a recreational hiking trail on the immediate outskirts of Las Vegas. Of the many different sorts of entries, a "nature-culture binary" is the most dominant and unique pattern to be found in the journals. We argue that this nature-culture binary serves as a piece of rhetorical equipment useful for navigating the daunting ecological complexit…
Writing like a flock
Theories and practices of self-organization have spread broadly in recent decades, through academia to business management to software development to disaster relief planning to progressive political activism, and so on. The question this paper addresses is whether self-organization can also become a viable mode of cultural analysis. Using the experience of January 2007, when a varied group of scholars convened in Las Vegas to ‘swarm’ the Consume…
The Joys of Victimage in George W. Bush's War of Totality
This essay reexamines George W. Bush's post-9/11 rhetoric of escalation for the way it articulated a war of totality with a nationalist sentiment of giddy victimage. My analysis pivots around a speech Mr. Bush delivered in the fall of 2005 at Norfolk Naval Base. Steeped in figures of amplification, the speech is a dramatic exemplar of Mr. Bush's habit of articulating totality with pleasure. His performance conjoined the 'whatever-it-takes' commit…
Rhetorics and Foodways
How we eat—the origin and handling of ingredients; the modes of production and distribution involved; the social contexts of consumption; and the invention and processing applied to the end product
Repressive Regimes, Aesthetic States, and Arts of Resistance
Imagining China
Deliverance
This essay proposes thinking about civic wounds as assemblages. It draws on the historical case of antebellum Cincinnati, where the physical contagion of cholera entangled with the social contagion of slavery in ways that articulated across both cultural and physical domains of activity at once. Taking this approach reveals the ways rhetoric’s pharmakon mediates the operations of delivery within assemblages; I further suggest that the intersectin…
Pained publics
In her contribution to the Quarterly Journal of Speech’s centennial issue, “Pathologia,” Jenny Rice suggests, “pathology does not only or always reveal something broken. Rather, the experience of pathology also reminds us that rhetoric’s sensorium is working—really working” (p. 35). Yes, and in a time of pandemic turbulence, we are reminded that the sensorium of civic life works in ways that shape, even threaten, our collective modes of engagemen…
Phronimos /Taster
This essay theorizes venatic taste as a mode of rhetorical invention: phronesis exercised as perceptual acuity, situated judgment, and ecological responsiveness. Modern Industrial Agriculture preempts three topoi — place, edibility, and quantity — that any food system must address, foreclosing the situated judgments such questions invite. Against this molar foreclosure, we trace a genealogy of foraging molecularity through Epicurus, Cicero, Erasm…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (3 works)