Justin Eckstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Eckstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Eckstein |
| SIGNATURE | ECKSTEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pacific Lutheran University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6343-2703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| 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…
Swan signal
This essay suggests that contemporary political argument often works through signals whose speakers cannot, and sometimes need not, be identified. Extending public screen theory beyond its visual bias, the essay develops acousmatics as a rhetorical methodology for tracing how effects circulate when sources are censored, distributed, or unverifiable. It introduces two analytics: (a) sound objects, detachable audiovisual fragments that can be isola…
The citizen questions model for redesigning political candidate debates
This study addresses declining participation in political debates and eroding public trust in their formats through communication design theory. We introduce the Citizen Questions Model (CQM), a designed intervention piloted with the Washington State Debate Coalition. The CQM restructures debate moderation and question sourcing through three stages: community surveys to identify voter priorities, bipartisan focus groups to refine these concerns i…
Belarus’s Sound Body
This study delves into the creative protest tactics of Belarusian activists in 2011, highlighting their use of “sound bodies” created through clapping to challenge authoritarian constraints. The research posits that these ethereal sound bodies exert significant normative pressure on the regime by challenging the regime’s legitimacy. By analyzing the clapping protests as civil disobedience, this study illustrates the effectiveness of this non-visu…
The Greta Affect
Greta Thunberg became a beacon of hope for many in the face of climate change. While journalists and social scientists attempt to know her influence through quantification popularized as the “Greta Effect,” we understand Thunberg through rhetorical fragments that compose a broader structure of feelings in the public—what we call the “Greta Affect.” Moving from effect to affect, we look to how Thunberg as a “leader of our time” inspires rhetorical…
Fostering Grit, Designing Debates
The deterioration of American civic culture has reached a critical inflection point that demands urgent scholarly intervention, particularly within higher education. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences documents a troubling constellation of civic ailments, with the growing diploma divide emerging as a central fault line in our democratic discourse.1 This educational stratification has evolved beyond mere demographic sorting to fundamentally…
The (Parkland) kids are alright
Wounds materialize in the wake of the event, when rhetoric inadequately indexes what is present in a situation. Such a position bypasses ethics from the transcendental ought or the purely descriptive is to an ethics grounded in an immanent occurrence. To give an example of this kind of rhetorical ethics, I turn to an example of a recent wound, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the pathology of gun violence has created a …
WastED rhetoric
Public Chef Intellectuals use restaurants as a topos to advocate for a more humane and sustainable food culture. They direct appetite both in the sense of creating delicious food and in the sense of articulating food politics. In a rhetorical analysis of Dan Barber’s experimental 2015 pop-up wastED, we find he employed three topoi in his rhetorical strategy to induce appetite: a glossary that situates his project within the context of our food sy…
Cooking, Celebrity Chefs, and Public Chef Intellectuals
In her excellent book, Citizen Critics, Rosa Eberly theorizes the classroom as a protopublic space, a space in which students may “engage in the praxis of rhetoric, an art whose telos is krisis, or
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
Sonic Persuasion
Greg Goodale, Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), xi + 189 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper), $14.34 (e-book). Sonic Persuasion emerge
WastED rhetoric
Public Chef Intellectuals use restaurants as a topos to advocate for a more humane and sustainable food culture. They direct appetite both in the sense of creating delicious food and in the sense of articulating food politics. In a rhetorical analysis of Dan Barber’s experimental 2015 pop-up wastED, we find he employed three topoi in his rhetorical strategy to induce appetite: a glossary that situates his project within the context of our food sy…
The (Parkland) kids are alright
Wounds materialize in the wake of the event, when rhetoric inadequately indexes what is present in a situation. Such a position bypasses ethics from the transcendental ought or the purely descriptive is to an ethics grounded in an immanent occurrence. To give an example of this kind of rhetorical ethics, I turn to an example of a recent wound, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the pathology of gun violence has created a …
Cooking, Celebrity Chefs, and Public Chef Intellectuals
In her excellent book, Citizen Critics, Rosa Eberly theorizes the classroom as a protopublic space, a space in which students may “engage in the praxis of rhetoric, an art whose telos is krisis, or
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
Sonic Persuasion
Greg Goodale, Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011), xi + 189 pp. $75.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper), $14.34 (e-book). Sonic Persuasion emerge
Cooking, Celebrity Chefs, and Public Chef Intellectuals
In her excellent book, Citizen Critics, Rosa Eberly theorizes the classroom as a protopublic space, a space in which students may “engage in the praxis of rhetoric, an art whose telos is krisis, or
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
WastED rhetoric
Public Chef Intellectuals use restaurants as a topos to advocate for a more humane and sustainable food culture. They direct appetite both in the sense of creating delicious food and in the sense of articulating food politics. In a rhetorical analysis of Dan Barber’s experimental 2015 pop-up wastED, we find he employed three topoi in his rhetorical strategy to induce appetite: a glossary that situates his project within the context of our food sy…
The (Parkland) kids are alright
Wounds materialize in the wake of the event, when rhetoric inadequately indexes what is present in a situation. Such a position bypasses ethics from the transcendental ought or the purely descriptive is to an ethics grounded in an immanent occurrence. To give an example of this kind of rhetorical ethics, I turn to an example of a recent wound, the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the pathology of gun violence has created a …
Fostering Grit, Designing Debates
The deterioration of American civic culture has reached a critical inflection point that demands urgent scholarly intervention, particularly within higher education. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences documents a troubling constellation of civic ailments, with the growing diploma divide emerging as a central fault line in our democratic discourse.1 This educational stratification has evolved beyond mere demographic sorting to fundamentally…
Belarus’s Sound Body
This study delves into the creative protest tactics of Belarusian activists in 2011, highlighting their use of “sound bodies” created through clapping to challenge authoritarian constraints. The research posits that these ethereal sound bodies exert significant normative pressure on the regime by challenging the regime’s legitimacy. By analyzing the clapping protests as civil disobedience, this study illustrates the effectiveness of this non-visu…
The Greta Affect
Greta Thunberg became a beacon of hope for many in the face of climate change. While journalists and social scientists attempt to know her influence through quantification popularized as the “Greta Effect,” we understand Thunberg through rhetorical fragments that compose a broader structure of feelings in the public—what we call the “Greta Affect.” Moving from effect to affect, we look to how Thunberg as a “leader of our time” inspires rhetorical…
The citizen questions model for redesigning political candidate debates
This study addresses declining participation in political debates and eroding public trust in their formats through communication design theory. We introduce the Citizen Questions Model (CQM), a designed intervention piloted with the Washington State Debate Coalition. The CQM restructures debate moderation and question sourcing through three stages: community surveys to identify voter priorities, bipartisan focus groups to refine these concerns i…
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…
Swan signal
This essay suggests that contemporary political argument often works through signals whose speakers cannot, and sometimes need not, be identified. Extending public screen theory beyond its visual bias, the essay develops acousmatics as a rhetorical methodology for tracing how effects circulate when sources are censored, distributed, or unverifiable. It introduces two analytics: (a) sound objects, detachable audiovisual fragments that can be isola…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works)