We live in a time of rampant environmental crisis and environmental injustice. Environmental criticism seeks to analyze the role of material and symbolic rhetoric in deconstructing, mediating, and composing relationships between humans, more-than-humans, and the environment. This essay offers a reflection on the status of environmental criticism as a subfield within rhetorical criticism with a focus on two topoi that have animated discussions about rhetorical criticism for many years: text and critical judgment. Through exploring these topoi, I reflect on the state of environmental criticism, what it has to offer to broader conversations within rhetorical criticism, and some future directions. The essay concludes by arguing that environmental criticism is an inherently critical approach that is premised on the idea of a crisis/care discipline.

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环境批评

我们生活在环境危机猖and和环境不公的时代。环境批评旨在分析物质和象征性修辞在解构，调解和构成人与人之间，与环境之间的关系中的作用。本文对环境批评作为修辞批评的一个子领域的现状进行了反思，重点是两个对辩论批评进行了多年讨论的拓扑：文本和批判性判断。通过探讨这些拓扑，我反思了环境批评的现状，它在修辞批评中进行更广泛对话所提供的内容以及一些未来的方向。本文最后通过论证指出，环境批评是一种固有的批判性方法，它以危机/关怀纪律为前提。