Nicholas S Paliewicz
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas S Paliewicz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Paliewicz |
| SIGNATURE | PALIEWICZ N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3460-282X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The generative persona: Reprograming rhetoric in an age of artificial intelligence and Donald Trump
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fundamental challenge to rhetoric, agency, and humanity. We argue that AI reveals how empowered audiences have created new post-human agencies beyond the speaker and the audience that we call the generative persona. This persona, forged in the ashes of what was once called the “author,” is unhinged from earthly coexistence and social accountabilities, because it exists as an ideal manifestation of its audiences’ …
Alchemical rhetoric: The presences and absences of the Jackling-Gemmell Report (1899) in the archives of the Anthropocene
This article rhetorically investigates a missing mining report known as the Jackling-Gemmell Report. Supposedly published in September 1899, this report was the first to scientifically rationalize porphyry, or open-pit, mining methods. Based on my analysis of thousands of archival records at Stanford University’s Daniel Jackling Collection, I argue that this textual absence is sutured by the rhetorical presence of mythopoeia wherein Daniel Jackli…
Playing Robinhood: Jamming Wall Street with Dumb Money in the Great Short Squeeze
This essay analyzes the rhetorics of social and economic protest surrounding the 2021 short squeeze where swarms of gamers-made-investors used the popular trading app Robinhood to create artificial demands for shorted stocks such as GameStop and AMC. Fueled by populist rhetoric on subreddit forum, r/WallStreetBets, the movement created a short-lived bubble that cost hedge funds billions. I argue that investors were subjectivized by market-based a…
Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known as r/NoNewNormal is an example of a parasitic public that circulates feelings of autonomy, victimization, and militancy to advance white masculinity in the public sphere. This bundle of affects thrives parasitically on the corrosiveness of deliberative democracy and neoliberal antagonisms (e.g., mask mandates and lockdowns). We call this virulent enactment of…
Decolonizing Oak Flat: Apache Stronghold’s Place-based, Temporal, and Mnemonic Dissensus at Public Hearings
Adding to work on environmental decision making, decoloniality, and rhetorics of social protest, this paper analyzes a troubling case of resource colonialism at Oak Flat, AZ where mining corporations Rio Tinto and BHP seek to execute decade-old plans to turn land sacred to many Western Apache into one of the largest copper mines in the US (Resolution Mine). This paper studies how members and supporters of the group Apache Stronghold “talk back” i…
Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities: New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery
The Future Roles of Remembering and Forgetting for Agentic Twenty-First-Century Cities
How Trains Became People: Southern Pacific Railroad Co.’s Networked Rhetorical Culture and the Dawn of Corporate Personhood
This essay analyzes how a rhetorical culture emerged in which the Supreme Court of the United States assumed corporations were constitutional persons under the Fourteenth Amendment. Approaching rhetorical culture from a networked standpoint, I argue that corporate personhood emerged from Southern Pacific Railroad Co.’s networks and alliances with environmental preservationists, politicians, publics, lawyers, judges, and immigrants in the late 19t…
The Country, the City, and the Corporation: Rio Tinto Kennecott and the Materiality of Corporate Rhetoric
Contributing to extant discourses about corporate environmental advocacy, this paper argues that corporations can embed discursive rhetorical strategies in material places and spaces. This argument contributes to environmental communication by bridging divisions between discursive and materialist approaches to corporate rhetoric. Corporate materiality is realized in the study of Rio Tinto Kennecott (RTK) at places of corporate community where RTK…
The 9/11 families, the passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Jasta), and the pursuit of in the Saudi legal cases
This paper offers a critical rhetorical analysis of the counterterrorist arguments that were presented by 9/11 families and their representatives when they sued Saudi Arabians for their role in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. By drawing from Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and by extending the work of critical security studies scholars who critique populist support for the Global War on Terrorism, the authors argue that supporters…
Popular memory at Ground Zero: A heterotopology of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
This article adopts a heterotopological approach to the spatial organization of the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum. We argue that although numerous organizational stakeholders, such as the families of 9/11 victims, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York Police Department, and the Port Authorities, had monolithic propositions about how to commemorate 9/11, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum ended u…
Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known as r/NoNewNormal is an example of a parasitic public that circulates feelings of autonomy, victimization, and militancy to advance white masculinity in the public sphere. This bundle of affects thrives parasitically on the corrosiveness of deliberative democracy and neoliberal antagonisms (e.g., mask mandates and lockdowns). We call this virulent enactment of…
Popular memory at Ground Zero: A heterotopology of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
This article adopts a heterotopological approach to the spatial organization of the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum. We argue that although numerous organizational stakeholders, such as the families of 9/11 victims, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York Police Department, and the Port Authorities, had monolithic propositions about how to commemorate 9/11, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum ended u…
Popular memory at Ground Zero: A heterotopology of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
This article adopts a heterotopological approach to the spatial organization of the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum. We argue that although numerous organizational stakeholders, such as the families of 9/11 victims, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the New York Police Department, and the Port Authorities, had monolithic propositions about how to commemorate 9/11, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum ended u…
The Country, the City, and the Corporation: Rio Tinto Kennecott and the Materiality of Corporate Rhetoric
Contributing to extant discourses about corporate environmental advocacy, this paper argues that corporations can embed discursive rhetorical strategies in material places and spaces. This argument contributes to environmental communication by bridging divisions between discursive and materialist approaches to corporate rhetoric. Corporate materiality is realized in the study of Rio Tinto Kennecott (RTK) at places of corporate community where RTK…
The 9/11 families, the passage of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (Jasta), and the pursuit of in the Saudi legal cases
This paper offers a critical rhetorical analysis of the counterterrorist arguments that were presented by 9/11 families and their representatives when they sued Saudi Arabians for their role in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks. By drawing from Foucault’s concept of governmentality, and by extending the work of critical security studies scholars who critique populist support for the Global War on Terrorism, the authors argue that supporters…
How Trains Became People: Southern Pacific Railroad Co.’s Networked Rhetorical Culture and the Dawn of Corporate Personhood
This essay analyzes how a rhetorical culture emerged in which the Supreme Court of the United States assumed corporations were constitutional persons under the Fourteenth Amendment. Approaching rhetorical culture from a networked standpoint, I argue that corporate personhood emerged from Southern Pacific Railroad Co.’s networks and alliances with environmental preservationists, politicians, publics, lawyers, judges, and immigrants in the late 19t…
Memory and Monument Wars in American Cities: New York, Charlottesville and Montgomery
The Future Roles of Remembering and Forgetting for Agentic Twenty-First-Century Cities
Decolonizing Oak Flat: Apache Stronghold’s Place-based, Temporal, and Mnemonic Dissensus at Public Hearings
Adding to work on environmental decision making, decoloniality, and rhetorics of social protest, this paper analyzes a troubling case of resource colonialism at Oak Flat, AZ where mining corporations Rio Tinto and BHP seek to execute decade-old plans to turn land sacred to many Western Apache into one of the largest copper mines in the US (Resolution Mine). This paper studies how members and supporters of the group Apache Stronghold “talk back” i…
Playing Robinhood: Jamming Wall Street with Dumb Money in the Great Short Squeeze
This essay analyzes the rhetorics of social and economic protest surrounding the 2021 short squeeze where swarms of gamers-made-investors used the popular trading app Robinhood to create artificial demands for shorted stocks such as GameStop and AMC. Fueled by populist rhetoric on subreddit forum, r/WallStreetBets, the movement created a short-lived bubble that cost hedge funds billions. I argue that investors were subjectivized by market-based a…
Of Markets, Masks, and (White) Men: Mimetic Performances of Parasitic Publicity During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This article argues that the anti-masking and anti-vaccination subreddit community known as r/NoNewNormal is an example of a parasitic public that circulates feelings of autonomy, victimization, and militancy to advance white masculinity in the public sphere. This bundle of affects thrives parasitically on the corrosiveness of deliberative democracy and neoliberal antagonisms (e.g., mask mandates and lockdowns). We call this virulent enactment of…
Alchemical rhetoric: The presences and absences of the Jackling-Gemmell Report (1899) in the archives of the Anthropocene
This article rhetorically investigates a missing mining report known as the Jackling-Gemmell Report. Supposedly published in September 1899, this report was the first to scientifically rationalize porphyry, or open-pit, mining methods. Based on my analysis of thousands of archival records at Stanford University’s Daniel Jackling Collection, I argue that this textual absence is sutured by the rhetorical presence of mythopoeia wherein Daniel Jackli…
The generative persona: Reprograming rhetoric in an age of artificial intelligence and Donald Trump
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fundamental challenge to rhetoric, agency, and humanity. We argue that AI reveals how empowered audiences have created new post-human agencies beyond the speaker and the audience that we call the generative persona. This persona, forged in the ashes of what was once called the “author,” is unhinged from earthly coexistence and social accountabilities, because it exists as an ideal manifestation of its audiences’ …
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