Damien Smith Pfister

Dados Biográficos

ID4078591
NOMEDamien Smith Pfister
PRENOMESDamien Smith
SOBRENOMEPfister
ASSINATURAPFISTER D S
AFILIAÇÕESRussian State Agrarian Correspondence University
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES18
OBRAS COMO AUTOR10
OBRAS COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2011
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ÍNDICE H2

  • Digitality, Diversity, and the Future of Rhetoric and Public Address

    E Johanna Hartelius, Jessica H Lu et al.ARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2021Referências: 2

    The pandemic and economic catastrophes of 2020 and the forms of resistance that surged against racist systemic and physical violence indicate, we contend, that studying public address in the present moment requires attention to the mutual contingency of rhetoric and digitality. Relying on interdisciplinary literatures and a global perspective, we direct such attention along three vectors: platforms, commons, and methods. We indicate how theorizin…

  • Digitality, Rhetoric, and Protocological Fascism; Or, Fascist Ants & Democratic Cicadas

    Damien Smith PfisterARTICLEJournal for the History of Rhetoric2020

    Myths about pharmaka are especially useful during dramatic cultural and technical changes. This essay first explores a contemporary myth, Bernard Stiegler’s “Allegory of the Anthill,” as a warning about protocological fascism – the industrialized and undemocratic exercise of control through digital infrastructures. Following Stiegler, I suggest that the algorithms structuring many digital technologies threaten to impose ant-like efficiency logics…

  • Igniting the Internet

    Damien Smith PfisterARTICLERhetoric and Public Affairs2019

  • Technoliberal rhetoric, civic attention, and common sensation in Sergey Brin’s “Why Google Glass?”

    Damien Smith PfisterARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech2019

    Sergey Brin’s February 2013 TED Talk, “Why Google Glass?,” is an example of technoliberal rhetoric that offers a constricted vision of civic attention. Technoliberalism, the intensification of neoliberalism through computational technology, funds Brin’s emphasis on the primacy of action-oriented leisure, the power of connection, and the possibility of sensation without mediation. I interpret “Why Google Glass?” as indicative of how technoliberali…

  • Five theses on technoliberalism and the networked public sphere

    Open AccessDamien Smith Pfister, Misti YangARTICLECommunication and the Public2018Citada por: 6Referências: 4

    How have digital technologies affected the market logics and economization that constitute the underlying governing rationality of neoliberalism? This essay unfurls five theses that further develop the concept of technoliberalism, the intensification of neoliberalism through computational technology, in the context of the networked public sphere: (1) technoliberalism names the dominant governing rationality in cultures where digital computation t…

  • Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

    Michele Kennerly, Damien Smith PfisterEDITORBOOKAncient Rhetorics and Digital…2018

  • “A Short Burst of Inconsequential Information

    Damien Smith PfisterARTICLEEnvironmental Communication2015

    This essay uses the concept of “avian consciousness” to reconsider assumptions about human communication and theorize networked rhetorics. By adopting an ornithomorphic frame, I critically read Don DeLillo's The Body Artist as an exploration of overlaps between human and avian consciousness. I then argue that avian consciousness provides a richer metaphor for understanding networked rhetorics than autistic consciousness, which is an increasingly …

  • The real cyber war

    Open AccessDamien Smith PfisterARTICLEJournal of Communication2015

    “Connection” already feels like the 21st century's most overworked trope. Usually featured in advertising copy for digital products, “connection,” and specifically the “freedom to connect,” is also the lodestar for U.S. diplomacy under the Obama Administration. The “freedom to connect” was articulated in a speech titled “Remarks on Internet Freedom” that then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered on 21 January 2010, on the heels of th…

  • Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens

    Open AccessJoshua P Ewalt, Jessy J Ohl et al.ARTICLECulture Studies ↔ Critical…2013Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…

  • Deliberation Technology

    Open AccessDamien Smith Pfister, Getachew Dinku GodanaARTICLEJournal of Deliberative Democracy2012

    In this Introduction to the Symposium, we articulate a reframing of Larry Diamond’s (2010) program of “liberation technology” around the idea of “deliberation technology.” Although the liberation technology program has been useful in supplying dissidents with a basic communication infrastructure during the various revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring, we briefly examine the cases of Tunisia and Egypt in order to show how deliberative vacuums have …

  • (Re)conceptualizing Intercultural Communication in a Networked Society

    Damien Smith Pfister, Jordan SolizARTICLEJournal of International and…2011Citada por: 10Referências: 3

    We offer four theses about how intercultural communication is altered in a digitally networked era. Digital media shape intercultural communication by (1) producing new public fora capable of (2) hosting rich, multimodal “spaces” of contact on (3) a scale of many-to-many communication that (4) challenges traditional modes of representation