Allison L Rowland
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison L Rowland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowland |
| SIGNATURE | ROWLAND A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Performance & Communication Arts, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9290-3615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Small dick problems
This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and anonymity associated with networked platforms, the men …
Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
Zoerhetorical theory -- Human microbiomes in popular science -- Fetuses at the National Memorial for the Unborn -- Vital biocitizens at the gym
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
Life-Saving Weapons
This essay uses the theoretical lens of biolegitimacy to advance rhetorical criticism on contemporary drone warfare. As coined by anthropologist Didier Fassin, biolegitimacy describes the emergent preference for “life itself” under humanitarianism. Recasting biolegitimacy as a rhetorical achievement illuminates the strategies by which the United States accrues biolegitimacy for its drone program. In official White House rhetorics, the remotely pi…
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
Performing Imperceptibility
When Google introduced its Street View technology in 2007, by taking panoramic photographs of ordinary street scenes around the globe, it brought us one step closer to the dystopian reality of universal surveillance. In response to Google's roving camera, some people have staged street-side performances in hopes of being photographed and uploaded online. We think of these performances as contemporary iterations of the historical performance genre…
Life-Saving Weapons
This essay uses the theoretical lens of biolegitimacy to advance rhetorical criticism on contemporary drone warfare. As coined by anthropologist Didier Fassin, biolegitimacy describes the emergent preference for “life itself” under humanitarianism. Recasting biolegitimacy as a rhetorical achievement illuminates the strategies by which the United States accrues biolegitimacy for its drone program. In official White House rhetorics, the remotely pi…
Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood
Zoerhetorical theory -- Human microbiomes in popular science -- Fetuses at the National Memorial for the Unborn -- Vital biocitizens at the gym
Small dick problems
This essay aims to sharpen the term entitlement for critical scholars by positing entitlement as a rhetorical strategy of hierarchy maintenance. The Reddit community r/SmallDickProblems, intended to provide support for men with small penises, furnishes an appropriate case study for threatened masculinity employing entitlement claims to maintain status. Abetted by the affordances of scale and anonymity associated with networked platforms, the men …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Rhetorical question (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)