Rhetoric of Machine Aesthetics

by Barry Brummett

Brummett addresses the question of how the aesthetic experience of machines can have rhetorical influence. He develops a theory of machine aesthetics, showing nine dimensions of the aesthetic experience of machines and machine-like objects or activities. He identifies three general types of machine aesthetics: Mechtech, classical machine aesthetics based on hardware, gears, pistons, and so forth; Electrotech, high technology machine aesthetics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275966445
• ISBN13: 9780275966447
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.6"