Rhet Ops

The essays raise awareness and challenge educators and consumers to recognize and teach nefarious rhetorical deployment, analyze source and life-cycle validity, and reclaim rhetorical tools as instruments of resistance for democratic outcomes.

* Choice *

Rhet-Ops deserves your attention as a scholar and a citizen.

* Rhetoric Society Quarterly *

If ever there was a book that illustrated the relevance of writing studies, this is it. A sobering account of the power of rhetoric to do harm, this volume reminds readers that knowledge and deployment of rhetorical strategies can literally cost lives. . . . But this rhetoric can also save lives.

* Circulating Ethical Digital Writing *

Rhet Ops is timely, and the volume offers multiple points for readers to reflect upon, including perspectives from academics and practitioners alike.

* H-Net Reviews *

So important and timely. Each chapter considers in different ways the consequences of our failure to address weaponized digital rhetorics, especially when such rhetorics result in mass disinformation campaigns. What’s especially unique about this volume is that it includes both academic and practitioner perspectives. The other thing I really love about this book is the ways it integrates Marxist material rhetorics (and even Foucault) in meaningful, contemporary ways. For all of the ways our field has moved on into ‘new’ materialisms and other re-imaginings of extant theories, we sometimes lose sight of these foundational scholarly contributions.

-- Christa B. Teston, The Ohio State University

Many of these essays, showing the benefits of seeing rhetoric as a weapon, are excellent models for cutting edge scholarship. The book doesn’t have a single political agenda and, in our day of polarized discourse, that ensures that everyone will love and hate something in the collection.
Trish Roberts-Miller, University of Texas-Austin

-- Trish Roberts-Miller, University of Texas-Au