Scot Barnett is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at Indiana University where he teaches courses in rhetorical theory and digital rhetoric. His research is broadly situated at the intersections between rhetoric and philosophy, with particular emphases in histories of rhetoric, new materialisms, and digital rhetorics. His most recent work addresses new media aesthetics and performativity and their implications for rhetorical understandings of action and embodiment. His work has appeared in the journals Rhetoric Review, Kairos, Enculturation, and Itineration, as well as numerous edited book collections. He is the co-editor of Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things (University of Alabama Press, 2016) and the author of Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things (Routledge, 2017). He can be reached at scbarnet@indiana.edu.