Steven B. Katz

Institutional Affiliation

Institutional Affiliation

R. Roy and Marnie Pearce Professor of Professional Communication;
Fellow, Rutland Institute for Ethics; Professor of English. Clemson University

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Name

Steven B. Katz

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Steve Katz is Pearce Professor of Professional Communication, Fellow of the Rutland Institute for Ethics, and Professor of English, at Clemson University. His creative/scholarly interests range from ethics in technical communication to the nexus of rhetorics, poetics, and science. His research foci include rhetorical theories and analyses of: ideologies of digital technologies; conventions and ethics of styles in biotech and medical communication with the public; and the materialities and uses of language in different forms of writing, in religion, and in electronic media.

Increasingly, as in this journal, and beyond, he has been experimenting, both theoretically and in actual practice, with poems as sonic objects--temporal shapes and shifts of psychagogic experience--and ways they can be considered legitimate rhetorical forms of scholarship.

His first book, _The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric_, attempted to delineate and explore the sensuous sounds of language as aural/temporal forms of indeterminate experience, rather than only as spatial/visual categories of rational/referential knowledge. In doing so, he wrestled with the epistemological problems of various logics of methodologies when confronted with language and music as an ontology of sound, and began to redefine empiricisms based on the eye (he told me to tell you that the most interesting parts of his book are the discursive Endnotes and the five Appendices, which he wants everyone to read. They deepen and widen considerably the mainly historical and philosophical narratives of language and affect that the primary text of the book explores. He believes the issues raised there are still relevant if not crucial to understanding epistemologies of sonic, object-oriented, and networked rhetorics as material ideologies and as metaphors).

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https://clemson.academia.edu/StevenBKatz

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