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Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Locating the Energies of Computational Performance
The Rhetorical Energies of Computing Machines
Beyond the Front and the Back Ends of Computing and Toward the Deep End
Thickening Procedurality with the Rhetorical Energies of Computational Performance
Chapter 1: Manufactured Processing, Ritual, and Expert Systems
Automation as Ritual of Science
Knowledge-Based Systems and Looking to Machines for Answers about Health
The Manufactured Processing of Vaccine Calculator
The Energetic Movements of “Experts” and Science Communication
Chapter 2: Processual Magnitude, the Sublime, and Computational Poiesis
The Aesthetics of Vast Computing
The Sublime Energies of @censusAmericans
Attuning to the Angst of @censusAmericans
Doing More with Computational Performance
Chapter 3: Processual Signaling, Compulsion, and Neural Networks
Persuasion, Indication, and Affective Compulsion
The “Grooves” of Neural Networks
The Machinic Parody of @DeepDrumpf
The Critique of Processual Signaling
Chapter 4: Designing Computational Performances to Actively Contribute Positive Energies
Moral Luck and the Machine Question
First- and Second-Order Agency
Hedging Against Moral (Un)Luckiness and the Limits of Avoidance
Computational Performance and an Ethic of (Distributed) Responsibility
Pushing on the Precautionary Principle and the Paradox of Machinic Intervention
Doing Good Instead of Avoiding Wrong with Alexa
Good Machines, Speaking Well
Chapter 5: Leveraging the Rhetorical Energies of Machines
The Informational and Persuasive Labors of Machine Communicators During the Pandemic
Going “Deeper” Toward Anthropomechanation
Enlivening Human–Machine Communication with Rhetorical Energies
Enlivening Inoculations Against Misinformation with Machinic Rhetorical Energies
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Influential Machines
The Rhetoric Of Computational Performance
Miles C. Coleman
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