Bücher von Barry Brummett

Each term's rhetoric is illustrated in an analysis of texts in popular culture: William Gibson's novels, the usenet group rec.motorcycles, and the film Groundhog Day. Brummett explores the ways people use three key terms-reality, representation, and simulation-as rhetorical devices with political and social effect.

Brummett addresses the question of how the aesthetic experience of machines can have rhetorical influence. He identifies three general types of machine aesthetics: Mechtech, classical machine aesthetics based on hardware, gears, pistons, and so forth;

Describing "apocalyptic" as a rhetorical genre of discourse, Brummett examines scholarly and theological studies to demonstrate their relevance to contemporary apocalyptic, and then considers a variety of "real" apocalyptic as examples of these rhetorical discourses at work.