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A
- Abbate, Janet, 74
- Adams, Douglas, 24
- affective compulsion, 64, 65–74, 86–87; and human reactions to machines, 72–73
- Akerkar, Rajendra A., 28
- Alexa (Amazon), 105–7; contrasted with Oracle of Delphia, 119; health apps during COVID-19 pandemic, 115–16; rhetorical energies of, 119–20, 123
- algorithms, 48–49, 94
- Amazon’s Alexa. See Alexa (Amazon)
- Ambient Rhetoric (Rickert), 15, 59
- Ames, Morgan, 48
- Amoore, Louise, 92
- analytic reasoning, 42
- Anderson, Wayne, 82
- angst, 57–59
- anthropomechanation, 116–17
- anthropomorphism, 33
- Antonelli, Kay McNulty Mauchly, 74
- archival magnitude, 46–47, 82
- Aristotle, 10, 46, 81
- artificial intelligence (AI): symbolic vs. connectionist, 28–29; writing by, 64–65
- attunements, 15–17, 20, 54, 58–59, 85
- AutoSpeech-Easy, 7–8
B
- Baldwin, Alec, 68, 81
- Banas, John A., 122
- Banks, Jaime, 117
- Barad, Karen, 12
- Barnett, Scot, 4
- Bartik, Jean Jennings, 74
- Bilas, Frances (Spence), 74
- bird populations, 60–61
- Bogost, Ian, 18
- Bollinger, Lee C., 106
- Bowden, Bertram Vivian, 75–76
- Boyle, Casey, 4, 11, 20
- Bradshaw, Jonathan, 47
- Brock, Kevin, 19, 60
- Brown, James J., 11, 17, 18–19, 22, 99
- Brunner, Elizabeth, 95
- Burroughs, William S., 70
- Burtynsky, Edward, 55
- Bush, Vannevar, 75
C
- Capek, Karel, 88
- carbon footprint software, 19–20, 21
- Carey, James W., 48
- Carey, Tamika L., 107
- Catch-Up Vaccine Scheduler, 29–33, 31, 34;
- comparison with Vaccine Calculator, 35. See also Vaccine Calculator
- Ceccarelli, Leah, 7, 23
- @censusAmericans, 45, 48, 49–61, 110
- Ceraso, Steph, 11
- Chaput, Catherine, 6, 17, 79
- Page 158 →chatbots, 12–13; medical applications, 113–114; and moral luck, 91; and moral programming, 95–96
- Christ of the Abyss (Galletti), 45
- citizen science, 44
- Cloud Ethics (Amoore), 92
- coherentization, 47
- Coleman, E. Gabriella, 86
- Colombini, Crystal Broch, 6, 79
- communication, human-machine. See human-machine communication
- “compulsion” contrasted with “impulse,” 66. See also affective compulsion
- Computational Culture ( journal), 17
- computing machines: as active agents, 1–2; agency of, 11–12; deep end, realm of, 13–18, 20, 67, 72–74, 86–87, 110–113; and energies, positive and negative, 92–93; ethics of responsibility, 98–102; first- and second-order agency, 93–95; front end contrasted with back end, 13–15, 110; information processing and storage, 13; and moral agency, 107–9; moral praise and blame, 88–89, 90–93; performative energy, 13–18; procedural rhetoric, 18–23, 21; rhetorical energies of, 5–13; and science communication, 24–27, 39; user interface, 13
- connectionist artificial intelligence, 28–29
- conspiracy theories, 40, 121
- constraints, 23, 53
- COVID-19 pandemic: and health apps, 115–16; “infodemic,” 112–16
- Crick, Nathan, 66
- Critique of the Power of Judgement (Kant), 47
D
- @DeepDrumpf, 66, 82, 83, 85, 111; analysis of, 79–86; model, structural, 77–78
- de Graaf, Maartje, 117
- Deleuze, Giles, 55
- Dewey, John, 66
- digital computing, history of, 74–75
- Digital Ethics (Reyman & Sparby), 98
- distributed morality, 100–102
- Dorin, Alan, 49–50, 53, 54, 56
- “double rainbow” video, 62–63
- Dunning, David, 41
- Dunning-Kruger effect, 40–41
- dynamical sublime, 53–54
E
F
G
H
- “habit” and computational performance, 67
- hate speech, 89 “hateware,” 99–100
- Page 159 →Hawhee, Debra, 10, 16, 57, 68–69
- Hawk, Byron, 17
- Hayes, Bradley, 79–80
- Heidegger, Martin, 15–17
- Hennis, Gregory, 99
- Henriques, Julian, 68
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), 24
- Hodges, Sara D., 58
- Holberton, Betty Snyder, 74
- Holmes, Steve, 67
- Homer, 57–58
- “A Hoot in the Dark” (Kennedy), 2, 19
- Horner, David S., 96
- human-machine communication, 5–6, 112–13, 132n28; persuasive roles for machines, 114–115; and rhetorical energies, 117–21. See also chatbots
- Human-Machine Communication ( journal), 5
- human-nature interface, 68
I
J
K
L
M
- machine-learning, probability contrasted with deduction, 76–77
- machinic intervention, paradox of, 102–5
- MacIntyre, Alasdair, 70
- magical thinking, 69–70
- magnitude: archival magnitude, 46–47, 82; processual magnitude, 46, 59–61, 111
- manufactured processing as tactic, 24–27
- Massumi, Brian, 40 mathematical sublime, 53–54
- mathematics and rhetoric, 76–79
- mattering contrasted with matter, 12
- Mayo Clinic, 115–16
- McCormack, Jon, 49–50, 53, 54, 56
- McNulty, Kay (Mauchly Antonelli), 74
- Meltzer, Marlyn Wescoff, 74
- meta-ignorance, 41
- metaphor and kinetic energy, 10–11
- #MeToo hashtag, 47
- Microsoft’s Taybot (chatbot), 89, 97–98
- Miller, Carolyn R., 7–9, 81
- Miner, Adam S., 115
- misinformation, 113–16, 121–24
- Mitchell, William J. T., 69–70
- Page 160 →Moon, Youngme, 32–33
- moral luck, 90–93; and Amazon’s Alexa, 105–7; and limits of avoidance, 95–98
- Mosco, Vincent, 48
- Muckelbaurer, John, 4
- Myers, Michael W., 58
N
O
P
- parody, 80. See also @DeepDrumpf
- Parrish, Allison, 51
- Peirce, Charles S., 69
- Persuasive Games (Bogost), 18
- Peters, John Durham, 70–71
- poiesis, 50, 53, 56–57
- precautionary principle, 102–5
- procedural enthymemes, 19
- procedural habits, 67
- procedural rhetorics, 3–4, 18–23, 21
- processual magnitude, 46, 59–61, 111
- processual signaling, 64, 111; critique of, 86–87
- prophetic ethos, 26
- Pythia, 118
Q
R
- racism, tolerance for, 106–7
- Rains, Stephen A., 122
- Rambot, 9
- Ramsey, Derek, 9
- Ratcliffe, Matthew, 58
- Recoding Gender (Abbate), 74
- reiteration, rhetoric of, 81–82
- resonance, 17, 72, 73
- responsibility, ethic of distributed, 98–102
- Reyes, Mitchell, 78
- Reyman, Jessica, 98, 100, 108
- rheme (unit of measure), 3
- rhetoric: definitions of, 107; expansion of,4; and mathematics, 76–79; procedural
- rhetoric, 18–23, 21
- Rhetoric (Aristotle), 10
- Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things (Barnett & Boyle), 4
- Rhetorica Ad Herennium, 53
- rhetorical energies, 2–3; of computing machines, 5–13; and misinformation, 121–24; traditional vs. computational performances, 7–9, 8
- Rhetorical Machines: Writing, Code, and Computational Ethics ( Jones & Hirsu), 22
- Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw (Hawhee), 10
- rhythm and vibration, 68–69
- Rice, Jenny, 46, 82
- Rickert, Thomas, 14–15, 17, 59
- robot speech, perceptions of, 116–17
- Rossum’s Universal Robots (Capek), 88
- Roundtree, Aimee K., 43
- Rudschies, Catharina, 108
S
- Sajja, Priti Srinivas, 28
- Schneider, Ingrid, 108
- science: citizen science, 44; expert advice and science communication, 42–44;
- “signaling” and science communication, 24–27, 39
- science denial, 46–47
- Scientists as Prophets (Walsh), 26
- second-order agency, 93–94
- sensation and language, 10, 16–17, 125n7
- Shepherd, Dawn, 19
- Page 161 →Simon, Judith, 108
- Snyder, Betty (Holberton), 74
- social media platforms, 41–42; custodian metaphor, 99
- spaces of attention, 68
- Sparby, Erika M., 98, 100, 108
- species loss, 60–61
- Spence, Frances Bilas, 74
- Spinuzzi, Clay, 26
- Stein, Jill, 84, 85
- “Stimmung” (Heidegger), 15–17
- storytelling, importance of, 70–71
- Strategic Computing Initiative, 76
- Sublime Dreams of Living Machines (Kang), 56
- sublimity, 45–61
- Sullivan, Dale, 84
- symbolic artificial intelligence, 28–29
- symbolic associations, 69–70
- symbolic interaction, 5–6
- System 2 reasoning, 42
T
- Tal, Aner, 25–26
- Taybot (chatbot), 89, 97–98, 135n10
- Taylor, Tom, 121
- Teitelbaum, Ruth Lichterman, 74
- Tiainen, Milla, 68
- tolerance and free speech, 106–7
- transduction, metaphor of, 11
- Trump, Donald, 79–80; speaking style, 84. See also @DeepDrumpf
- Twitter, bot culture, 2, 7, 22, 49, 51–52, 131n57. see also @censusAmericans; @DeepDrumpf
V
W
- Walker, Jeffrey, 20
- Walsh, Lynda, 26
- Walton, Douglas, 81
- Wansink, Brian, 25–26
- Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, 32
- Watson Assistant for Citizens (IBM), 114
- Weizenbaum, Joseph, 73
- Wescoff, Marlyn (Meltzer), 74
- Wikipedia articles, 9–10, 78, 119, 124
- Woods, Heather Suzanne, 106
- writing process, 9–10
- wrongdoing: avoidance of deliberate, 102; communicative by machinic agents, 103; by machines, 89, 91, 94, 95–97, 101–2
- Wynn, James, 44