Ethan William Stoneman
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“However, it is not possible to reject one’s own culture. It is the ground we tread. Those who seek to reject their own culture (as Nietzsche did in rejecting Judeo-Christianity), fall victim to madness. Those who reject their culture’s models are incapable of grasping the world in which they live. Cultural models are traps to catch the world. Those who seek to substitute their own models for others’ will find that such exotic models have already been caught by the very models to be substituted. There is no exit: we are condemned to use our models and to serve such models, if we wish to continue living. We must continue progressing despite everything.”— Vilém Flusser, Post-History
Faculty Information
Additional Faculty Information for Ethan William Stoneman
Education
B.A., Philosophy and Communication, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
M.A., Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2009
Ph.D., Communication, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
Memberships
International Communication Association
Media Ecology Association
National Communication Association
Rhetorical Society of America
Classes Taught
Aesthetic Theory
Conservative Critics of Technology
Documentary and Non-Fiction Film
Film: History and Form
Introduction to Biopolitics
Public Speaking
Media and Culture
Media Ecology
Media Theory & Criticism
Philosophy of Technology
Theories of Rhetoric
Seminar: The Cinema of Werner Herzog
Seminar: Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus
Seminar: History of the Horror Film
Seminar: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherology
Select Publications
Cypher Culture: Esotericism, Pronoia, and the Messages That Were Not There. Draft in progress.
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction. Co-Authored with Steven Knepper and Robert Wyllie. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2024
A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture. Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2018.
“Brain Warfare as Biopolitical Technique: Experiments in the Programmable Subject.” Co-Authored with Joshua Reeves. Theory & Event (forthcoming).
“Absolution as Cultural Technique: From the Confessional Booth to Digital Enclosures.” Co-Authored with Joshua Reeves. Theory, Culture & Society (forthcoming).
“The Anaesthetic Crisis of Work and Leisure: On Byung-Chul Han’s The Palliative Society.” Telos (forthcoming).
“Toward a Telematic Aesthetics: Vilém Flusser on the Dialogic Promise of Technical Images.” Angelaki 29.5 (forthcoming 2024).
“The White Knight: Batman as Esoteric Hero for the Dissident Right.” Transformative Works and Cultures 40 (2023).
“Escape from the Digital Infosphere! Mutation and Disentanglement in Franco Berardi’s Critical Media Theory.” Paragraph 46.2 (2023): 192-211.
“American Conservatism Unmoored: The Dissident Right’s Adoption of Leftist Agitational Strategies.” Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. Cultural Politics 18.3 (2022): 330-350.
“Rewriting the History of the Gods: Decolonial Revisionism in Thor: Ragnarok.” Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. Review of Communication 22.2 (2022): 127-42.
“Where We Produce One, We Produce All: The Platform Conspiracism of QAnon.” Cultural Politics 17.3 (2021): 255-78 (lead article).
“Reel Cruelty: Voyeurism and Extra-Juridical Punishment in True-Crime Documentaries.” Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. Crime, Media, Culture 17.3 (2021): 401-19.
“Sphere Ecology: Peter Sloterdijk’s Spatial-Analytic Approach to Media Environments.” Explorations in Media Ecology 20.1 (2021): 55-71.
“After Englobement: Carl Schmitt, Peter Sloterdijk, and the Rediscovery of the Uncompressible.” Cultural Politics 16.3 (2020): 303-21.
“Beyond the Worlds of Work and Leisure: Ernst Jünger and Josef Pieper on the Prospects of Post-Liberal Existence.” Telos 191 (Summer 2020): 169-184.
“The Root of the Problem: Historical Narrative as Origin, End, and Impasse of Social Justice.” Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. Journal for the History of Rhetoric 23.2 (2020): 199-218.
“Everyone Is at Liberty to Be a Fool: Schopenhauer’s Philosophical Critique of the Art of Persuasion.” Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 24.1 (2019): 133-154.
“Beauty Cajoles: Friedrich Schiller and the Aesthetic Education of Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 47.2 (2017): 180-205.
“‘No, everything is not all right’: Supernatural Horror as Pessimistic Argument.” Co-Authored with Joseph Packer. Horror Studies 8.1 (2017): 25-43.
“Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Rhetoric.” Co-Authored with Josh Reeves. Philosophy & Rhetoric 47.2 (2014): 137–57.
“The Available Means of Preservation: Aristotelian Rhetoric, Ostracism, and Political Catharsis.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 43.2 (2013): 134–54.
“Appropriate Indecorum: Rhetoric and Aesthetics in the Political Theory of Jacques Rancière.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 44.2 (2011): 129–49.