6 The Uses of Compulsion: Recasting Burke’s Technological Psychosis in a Comic Frame

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Articulating Ambiguous Compatibilities 1
5. I Boundaries
6. 1 Minding Mind: Kenneth Burke, Gregory Bateson, and Posthuman Rhetoric 23
7. 2 The Cyburke Manifesto, or, Two Lessons from Burke on the Rhetoric and Ethics of Posthumanism 42
8. 3 Revision as Heresy: Posthuman Writing Systems and Kenneth Burke’s “Piety” 61
9. 4 Burke’s Counter-Nature: Posthumanism in the Anthropocene 80
10. 5 Technique–Technology–Transcendence: Machination and Amechania in Burke, Nietzsche, and Parmenides 98
11. II Futures
12. 6 The Uses of Compulsion: Recasting Burke’s Technological Psychosis in a Comic Frame 127
13. 7 A Predestination for the Posthumanistic 142
14. 8 Emergent Mattering: Building Rhetorical Ethics at the Limits of the Human 162
15. 9 What Are Humans For? 184
16. 10 A Sustainable Dystopia 203
17. Contributors 227
18. Index 231