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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies Volume 3, 2006 - Issue 4
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The Matrix and Critical Theory's Desertion of the Real

Dana L. CloudCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 329-354 | Published online: 03 Feb 2007

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John Arthos. (2023) Escaping the Prison House of Effects: The Persistence of an Anachronism in Rhetoric Studies. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 53:5, pages 609-623.
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Bradford Vivian. (2021) The Incitement: An Account of Language, Power, and Fascism. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 51:5, pages 361-376.
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Tyler Champine. (2020) Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime, by Bruno Latour, trans. Catherine Porter. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50:4, pages 302-304.
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Ethan Stoneman & Joseph Packer. (2020) The Root of the Problem: Historical Narrative as Origin, End, and Impasse of Radical Social Change. Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23:2, pages 199-218.
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Karma R. Chávez. (2018) The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48:3, pages 242-250.
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Dana L. Cloud. (2018) Standpoint, Mediation and the Working-Class Public Sphere. Javnost - The Public 25:1-2, pages 51-58.
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Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury. (2018) Beyond “Rhetorical Agency”: Skutnik’s Story in the 1982 State of the Union Address. Western Journal of Communication 82:1, pages 40-58.
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Joseph Zompetti. (2012) The Cultural and Communicative Dynamics of Capital: Gramsci and the Impetus for Social Action. Culture, Theory and Critique 53:3, pages 365-382.
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DannL. Pierce & Katherine Kaufman. (2012) Visual Persuasion Tactics in Narrative Development: An Analysis of The Matrix . Visual Communication Quarterly 19:1, pages 33-47.
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MaryE. Triece. (2011) “Saying It the Way We Have Lived It”: Pragmatics and the “Impossible Position” of Ideology Critique. Western Journal of Communication 75:4, pages 434-439.
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DanaL. Cloud & Joshua Gunn. (2011) Introduction: W(h)ither Ideology?. Western Journal of Communication 75:4, pages 407-420.
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SonjaK. Foss & KarenA. Foss. (2011) Constricted and Constructed Potentiality: An Inquiry Into Paradigms of Change. Western Journal of Communication 75:2, pages 205-238.
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Dana L. Cloud. (2021) Their Hegemony—and Theirs. Philosophy & Rhetoric 54:2, pages 171-185.
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Shawn P. Van Valkenburgh. (2019) “She Thinks of Him as a Machine”: On the Entanglements of Neoliberal Ideology and Misogynist Cybercrime. Social Media + Society 5:3, pages 205630511987295.
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Richard W. Leeman. 2017. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods 1 11 .
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Marco Briziarelli. (2016) To “Feel” and to “Understand” Political Struggle. Journal of Communication Inquiry 40:3, pages 287-304.
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Jamie Merchant. (2014) Immanence, Governmentality, Critique: Toward a Recovery of Totality in Rhetorical Theory. Philosophy & Rhetoric 47:3, pages 227-250.
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Matthew S. May. (2012) Orator-Machine:. Philosophy & Rhetoric 45:4, pages 429-451.
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Christina R. Foust. (2010) Meditations on Immediate Resistance. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 10:3, pages 208-220.
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Joshua Gunn & Dana L. Cloud. (2010) Agentic Orientation as Magical Voluntarism. Communication Theory 20:1, pages 50-78.
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