“The title of S. Scott Graham’s latest book invokes a question that is all too common in rhetorical studies today. When new ideas and new methods for rhetorical inquiry are proposed or endorsed, the first question often asked by peer reviewers or in hushed breaths in conference hallways is ‘That’s fine, but where’s the rhetoric?’ Rather than critique this question or try to meet it on its own terms (what is or isn’t rhetoric), Graham uses it as a jumping-off point to propose something more challenging and, decidedly, more radical. What if, he asks, instead of policing disciplinary boundaries, we tried to build a more unified field of rhetoric, one firmly situated within traditional rhetorical texts and ideas but dynamic enough to accommodate a wider range of actors, agencies, and perspectives? Where’s the Rhetoric? attempts just such a feat, and like comparable efforts in physics, Graham’s theory of a unified field is bold, speculative, and, above all, exciting. This is an important and timely intervention into a number of important conversations in the field of rhetoric today.” —Scot Barnett, author of Rhetorical Realism: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things
“This is a wonderfully strange book. In his searching for rhetoric, Graham traces a new history for rhetorical new materialism, invigorates the study of genre, and builds new tools for the study of rhetoric. Its strangeness inheres in its linkages but also in its style, which delights at every turn.” —Nathaniel Rivers