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Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene by Amy D. Propen
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TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
Contents
Acknowledgments
PREFACE: The Scrub Jay and the Peanut
CHAPTER 1: Agential Entanglements and the Paradoxes of Anthropocene Technoscience
What's So Important About How We Think About Agency?
Trajectories in Rhetoric and Materiality: Or, Visual-Material Rhetorics and/Informed by New Materialisms
Early Conceptions of Material Rhetoric
New Materialisms and Its Intersections with Visual-Material Rhetorics
Compassionate Conservation, Embodied Communication, and Visuality
Visibility, Vulnerability, and Advocacy
The Precarious Paradox of Visualization
Toward a Posthuman Conservation Ethic
Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER 2: Material Rhetoric in the Midway
On Data Collection and Analysis
The Naturalcultural Matter of Vulnerable, Embodied Bodies
An Historically Vulnerable Body
The Vulnerable, Embodied Albatross
The Matter of Vulnerable Bodies, Reflected and Diffracted
On the Problematics of Representation: Reflections and Diffractions
The Photo as Embodied, Visual-Material Rhetoric: Reflections and Diffractions
Paradoxical Reflections
Trans-Corporeal Diffractions
Visual-Material, Embodied, Nontoxic Practices that Share Toxic, Elemental Space
Affective Inscriptions as Part of Material Discursive Practice
Affectual, Material Discursive Practice: The Work of the Photos
Paradox: In Shimmer, Love
Gathering into Sentiment(s)
In Material Discursive Practice, Mourning and World-Making
Mourning as Ethical Obligation and Necessary for Becoming With
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3: Seismic Risks and Vulnerable Bodies
On Data Collection and Analysis
Risk and Discourse in Technoscience
Weighing the Risk-Benefit Ratio
Mitigating Risk in a Risk Society
The “Seismic Survey Safety” Infographic
The Track Line Map
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) Advisory Council Memo
Surfrider’s Opposition Letter
The Initial and Larger Rhetorical Implications of the MBNMS’s and Surfrider’s Maps
Risk as Perpetuated and Sustained through Discourse
Arguments and Attitudes About Valuing Marine Species in the Context of Seismic Testing
Utilitarian and Extrinsic Rationales as Also Qualified with Ecologistic Concerns
Ecologistic Concerns as Considered Part of Larger Concerns of “Do No Harm”
The Principle of “Do No Harm” as Aligned with Compassionate Conservation
Compassionate Conservation Meets Posthuman Technoscience
Compassionate Conservation in an Age of Technoscience: The California Sea Otter
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4: Tracking to Sea (in the Anthropo-scene
The Atlas as Visual-Material Rhetoric
On Data Collection and Analysis
The Rhetorical Work of Maps and Photos in the "Species" Section
Remote Tracking Technology, Visual-Material Environmental Rhetorics, and the Conservation of Marine Species: Toward a Posthuman, Compassionate Conservation
Wildlife Tracking and Compassionate Conservation as Embodied Practice
Agency and Posthuman Knowledge-Making in the Atlas
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5: Conclusion
Notes
Notes to the Preface
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 4
Notes to Chapter 5
Works Cited
Index
SERIES PAGE
Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene by Amy D. Propen
HALF TITLE PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
Contents
Acknowledgments
PREFACE: The Scrub Jay and the Peanut
CHAPTER 1: Agential Entanglements and the Paradoxes of Anthropocene Technoscience
What's So Important About How We Think About Agency?
Trajectories in Rhetoric and Materiality: Or, Visual-Material Rhetorics and/Informed by New Materialisms
Early Conceptions of Material Rhetoric
New Materialisms and Its Intersections with Visual-Material Rhetorics
Compassionate Conservation, Embodied Communication, and Visuality
Visibility, Vulnerability, and Advocacy
The Precarious Paradox of Visualization
Toward a Posthuman Conservation Ethic
Chapter Summaries
CHAPTER 2: Material Rhetoric in the Midway
On Data Collection and Analysis
The Naturalcultural Matter of Vulnerable, Embodied Bodies
An Historically Vulnerable Body
The Vulnerable, Embodied Albatross
The Matter of Vulnerable Bodies, Reflected and Diffracted
On the Problematics of Representation: Reflections and Diffractions
The Photo as Embodied, Visual-Material Rhetoric: Reflections and Diffractions
Paradoxical Reflections
Trans-Corporeal Diffractions
Visual-Material, Embodied, Nontoxic Practices that Share Toxic, Elemental Space
Affective Inscriptions as Part of Material Discursive Practice
Affectual, Material Discursive Practice: The Work of the Photos
Paradox: In Shimmer, Love
Gathering into Sentiment(s)
In Material Discursive Practice, Mourning and World-Making
Mourning as Ethical Obligation and Necessary for Becoming With
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3: Seismic Risks and Vulnerable Bodies
On Data Collection and Analysis
Risk and Discourse in Technoscience
Weighing the Risk-Benefit Ratio
Mitigating Risk in a Risk Society
The “Seismic Survey Safety” Infographic
The Track Line Map
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) Advisory Council Memo
Surfrider’s Opposition Letter
The Initial and Larger Rhetorical Implications of the MBNMS’s and Surfrider’s Maps
Risk as Perpetuated and Sustained through Discourse
Arguments and Attitudes About Valuing Marine Species in the Context of Seismic Testing
Utilitarian and Extrinsic Rationales as Also Qualified with Ecologistic Concerns
Ecologistic Concerns as Considered Part of Larger Concerns of “Do No Harm”
The Principle of “Do No Harm” as Aligned with Compassionate Conservation
Compassionate Conservation Meets Posthuman Technoscience
Compassionate Conservation in an Age of Technoscience: The California Sea Otter
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4: Tracking to Sea (in the Anthropo-scene
The Atlas as Visual-Material Rhetoric
On Data Collection and Analysis
The Rhetorical Work of Maps and Photos in the "Species" Section
Remote Tracking Technology, Visual-Material Environmental Rhetorics, and the Conservation of Marine Species: Toward a Posthuman, Compassionate Conservation
Wildlife Tracking and Compassionate Conservation as Embodied Practice
Agency and Posthuman Knowledge-Making in the Atlas
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5: Conclusion
Notes
Notes to the Preface
Notes to Chapter 1
Notes to Chapter 2
Notes to Chapter 3
Notes to Chapter 4
Notes to Chapter 5
Works Cited
Index
SERIES PAGE
