“At every turn, we expect growth and closure, but Egan refuses, insisting that there are “gaps”, even with the assistance of a technology like Own Your Unconscious. It is fiction and only fiction that lets us “roam with absolute freedom through the human collective”; so we end the chapter where we started, with everyone celebrating Ames’ big swing: the authentic, immeasurable, and banal highlight of a life.”
- Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth. Edited by Scott Sundvall, Caddie Alford, and Ira J. Allen. University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming 2026.
- “Rhetoric.” Imagining the Internet(s): A Collaborative Glossary. Edited by Nathalie Fridzema & Anya Shchetvina. Institute of Network Cultures, 2026.
- “The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2025.
- “‘A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination”: Twitter, Free Speech Absolutism, and Adoxastic Enshittification,” co-authored with Jonathan S. Carter. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, vol. 15, no. 3, 2025.
- “What I Read This Summer: Caddie Alford.” dh+lib, September 2025.
- “Witnessing Corecore as an Epideictic Call to Care.” b2o, “Critique as Care” special issue, May 2025.
- “Adoxastic Publics: Facebook and the Loss of Civic Strangeness,” co-authored with Jonathan S. Carter. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 108, no. 3, 2022.
- “Adoxa.” A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary. Edited by Michele Kennerly. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
- “On Not Being Entitled to Bad Opinions.” Intermezzo. Co-authored with Shannon Roberson. November, 2021.
- “When One Door Closes, Another Opens; Or, Appreciating Clichés.” Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What it Means to Fail. Edited by Laura Micciche and Allison Carr. Peter Lang, 2020.
- “‘The Gods Wish More of Me’: Infrastructural Violence Between Ethics and Doxa.” Co-authored with Damien Smith Pfister. Media Ethics Magazine, vol. 30, no. 2, 2019.
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