ABSTRACT Composition-rhetoric is experiencing a surge in research examining how the material is rhetorically consequential, sometimes termed new materialism. However, much of this research is future-oriented, leaving intact traditional disciplinary values. This article offers a hauntological re-reading of our disciplinary history from a materialist perspective wherein we are always-already material. By examining three canonical articles where the original research is haunted by the rhetoricity of matter, the field’s traditional history and, concomitantly, current-future identities are left radically open and unsettled. New adjacent possibilities are available for realization only if/when we render our past-present-future selves unfamiliar.

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谁在乎约翰尼用铅笔写字？或者，构成修辞学中物质性的鬼魂史学

摘要 作文修辞正在经历研究材料如何在修辞上产生后果的研究激增，有时被称为新唯物主义。然而，大部分研究都是面向未来的，保留了完整的传统学科价值观。这篇文章从唯物主义的角度对我们的学科历史进行了鬼魅般的重读，其中我们总是已经是物质的。通过检查三篇经典文章，其中原始研究被物质的修辞所困扰，该领域的传统历史以及随之而来的当前未来身份都被彻底开放和悬而未决。只有当/当我们让过去-现在-未来的自己变得陌生时，新的相邻可能性才有可能实现。