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Notes

1. See for example Hardt and Negri (2000), Marazzi (2008), Castells (2000), Harvey (1991), and Oliver (2007) among numerous other books and essays documenting the economic shift toward ‘immaterial production’.

2. A special word of thanks is due to Paul Turpin at the University of the Pacific, thanks to whom the members now have an active mailing list that is communicated upon regularly. As time progresses the division hopes to expand its connections outside American communication studies and continue to better understand the global relationships between economics, communication and society.

3. For a more extensive discussion on the constitutive model see Greene (1998). See also Charland (1987) and Gunn and Treat (2005).

4. Such an approach to the relationship between discourse and economics might seem close to the project of Donald Mackenzie and other scholars working on economic questions that draw on science and technology studies. The primary difference being that the vast majority of work drawing on a constitutive point of view in US communication studies foregrounds the role of language and representation in the constitution of the economy, while so called ‘performative’ approaches to the economy place equal emphasis on material and immaterial actors ranging from technology to institutions.

5. See for example Burgchardt's (2002) review of Houck's, Rhetoric as Currency; Cloud (1994); and Greene (1998).

6. See Cloud (2000) and Aune (2001). For a more extensive discussion on the stakes of these positions see the debate in Philosophy and Rhetoric: Cloud, Macek and Aune (2006) and Greene (2004, 2006).

7. On the concept of articulation theory see Stormer (2004), Biesecker (1999), Greene (1998) and Grossberg (1986).

8. From this framework rhetoric has been recast as ‘energy.’ See, for example, Sloop (2009). Another metaphor has been ‘texturality.’ According to this perspective discourse does not simply flatten (constitute) space nor does space produce discourse. These differing modalities instead implicate one another and overlap. See Conley and Dickinson (2010).