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Notes
1 In offering multiple terms, none of which is “perfect,” I proliferate to de-re/reconstruct as suggested in Celeste M. Condit, “Control by All (Us/Scientists): Intersectionality Through Proliferation,” Works and Days 36, nos. 70/71 (2018-19): 159–88.
2 Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples, “From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the ‘Violence’ of Seattle,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 19, no. 2 (2002): 125–51.
3 “Meme President” was offered by Stephen Murray in an essay rejected from a major journal by reviewers who insisted that one could not “prove” that memes were important (while denying the validity of “effects” analysis!).
4 Per is a gender inclusive pronoun, introduced as a shortened form of “person” by Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1976). I recommend this term with respect for others who prefer individual choice in pronouns, but suggest that such individualism be reflected upon.
5 Theories of persona are summarized in Charles E. Morris, III, “Pink Herring and the Fourth Persona: J. Edgar Hoover's Sex Crime Panic,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 88 (2002): 228–44; I also build out from the venerable media ecologist Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World (London: T. J. Press, 1982).
6 Kevin M. DeLuca, Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism (New York: Guilford Press, 1999), 83.
7 DeLuca, Image Politics, 163.
8 Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern,” Critical Inquiry 30 (2004): 225–48.
9 Celeste Condit, Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018).
10 Rui Fan, Jichang Zhao, Yan Chen, and Ke Xu, “Anger Is More Influential Than Joy: Sentiment Correlation in Weibo,” PLoS ONE 9 (2014): e110184, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110184
11 Condit, Angry Public Rhetorics.
12 DeLuca, Image Politics, 14 and 16–17.
13 Ibid., 59, 81, 111.
14 Celeste M. Condit, “The Supra-Cyborg: The Rise of Global Governing Corportocracies,” in Biocitizenship: The Politics of Bodies, Governance, and Power, eds. Kelly Happe, Jenell Johnson and Marina Levina (New York; New York University Press, 2018), 274–306.
15 DeLuca, Image Politics, on p. 4 quotes Robert Hunter recommending “strafing the population with mind bombs” from The Storming of the Mind (Garden City, NY: Doubleday), 215–24.
16 DeLuca, Image Politics, e.g., 14.
17 Condit, “Control by All.” DeLuca sometimes deploys this strategy.
18 Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1241–99. DeLuca alludes to this (e.g., pp. 82, 149).
19 Condit, “Control by All.” I correct that essay, to say, “Other-Less” instead of “otherless” to align with a philosophy emphasizing variation in degrees more than binary choice and to admit that on rare occasions it may be appropriate to “other” individual entities for particularly egregious and unreformable actions and tendencies.
20 Lisa A. Flores, “Between Abundance and Marginalization: The Imperative of Racial Rhetorical Criticism,” Review of Communication 16, no. 1 (2016): 4–24.
21 No example is perfect, but the available range is growing, from the WFSU Ecology-focused citizen science efforts (https://blog.wfsu.org/blog-coastal-health/?p=12263) to novelistic explorations of the richness of trees-and-their/our-companions, such as Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Overstory (W.W. Norton, 2018). Academic essays exploring such efforts include Joshua Trey Barnett's “Impurities: Thinking Ecologically with Safe,” Communication, Culture & Critique 10, no. 2 (2016): 203–20.