Making Worlds with Cyborg Fish

Abstract

This chapter builds from the migrating fish in a New England river to point rhetorical studies beyond discourse and text. Employing what they refer to as diadromous methodology, Druschke and Rai attend to the diverse energetics that weave among and through the biotic and abiotic materials of the world. Diadromous methodology allows an imagining of how an ecological orientation to rhetoric, from the inside of both science and activism, can encourage dynamic, fleeting, and creative trans-species alliances. This field-based chapter offers a speculative vision for rhetorical studies that orients the discipline toward playful and consequential engagements with a more expansive array of co-creators.