The Big Rhetorical Podcast

Keywords: Surveillance, Social Control, Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Power. This episode of TBR Podcast features Dr. Anthony Stagliano delivering the Keynote for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." It also serves as the season 12 Keystone Perspectives episode and season finale. Anthony Stagliano is a media theorist and filmmaker whose research concerns creative interventions into technologies of surveillance, biometrics, and control. He is the author of the book Disobedient Aesthetics. His films and media artworks have been shown in festivals and galleries around the world. His feature narrative film, Fade, was released theatrically, on DVD, and on streaming platforms. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of was produced by graduate students enrolled in ENG 502 at the University of Findlay for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

The podcast episode of La Rhetorica was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode of Defend, Publish, and Lead Podcast was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode from Dr. Joseph Robertshaw and students associated with multimodalcomposition.com ties together 3 sets of student-created podcasts on the topic of the Ethics of AI in Academia was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode of 10-Minute Tech Comm is titled, "Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin on the Rhetorical Nature of AI." Dr. Kem-Laurin Lubin joins 10-Minute Tech Comm to explain why AI is rhetorical, how it defines humans, and how we can use ethotic heuristics to create more human-centered AI. This conversation is part of the 2025 The Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival, built around the theme “(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control.” Read Dr. Lubin on Medium and check out her most recent book! Find a transcript and more information about 10-Minute Tech Comm at tenminutetechcomm.com. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

This podcast episode, a collaboration between Writing Remix Podcast and Live Theory Podcast, was produced for the 2025 TBR Podcast Carnival, "(Un)tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Power, Social Control, Emerging Technologies. Dr. Daniel Ernst is Associate AI Strategist and Assistant Professor of English at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. Stephen J. Neville is a PhD candidate in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. And, Dr. Sarah Young is a Center for Quantum Networks fellow and author of, Working Through Surveillance in Technical Communication. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Prison Reform, Documentary Filmmaking, Non-Fiction, Social Justice, Alabama. Beth Shelburne is a journalist and writer with over two decades of experience in media. She specializes in investigative and long-form narrative non-fiction. She co-produced The Alabama Solution, a 2025 documentary now available on HBO. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Feminist Rhetorics, Labor Rhetorics, Chicago, archival research, rhetorical history. Dr. Liane Malinowski is assistant professor of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where she teaches and researches feminist rhetorics, archival research, and rhetorical history. She is the author of City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911. Her book follows Progressive reformers and garment workers who came together in Chicago’s early women’s labor movement to reimagine work and solidarity by drawing from diverse practices and traditions. It offers the term “labor rhetorics” as a conceptual framework that draws attention to how people communicate about the meaning, value, and conditions of their work across different kinds of spaces and conceptions of time. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Hurricane Helene, Asheville, North Carolina, Crisis Communication, Institutional Response. Dr. Yvonne Villanueva-Russell is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina Asheville. She joins TBR Podcast to discuss Hurricane Helene and UNC-Asheville's response to the crisis and future trajectory of the university. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: DJing, Hip Hop Studies, Literacy, Writing, Sound Studies. Dr. Todd Craig is the Marks Family Senior Director of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests lie at the intersection of writing and rhetoric, sound studies, and Hip Hop studies. He is the author of “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies, which received the 2024 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council of Teachers of English, the 2025 Advancement of Knowledge Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Outstanding Book Award from the Rhetoric Society of America. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Data, Data Storytelling, Data Literacy Multimodal Composition, Writing. Angela Laflen is associate professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. Her scholarship has been published in Computers and Composition, Kairos, Assessing Writing, The Journal of Response to Writing, Pedagogy,and Writing Spaces. Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom is available now from the University of Colorado Press.. I hope you enjoy my interview with Dr. Angela Laflen. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Podcast, Graduate Students, Awards, Podcast Carnival, Rhetoric and Writing. Episode 182 features the CFP for the TBR Podcast Emerging Scholar Award. More information here: https://tinyurl.com/23y6wzcj. Nominations are due to thebigrhetorical@gmail.com by November 24, 2025. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Podcast, Podcast Carnival, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence, Control. Episode 181 features the CFP for the 6th annual TBR Podcast Carnival. The 2025 theme is, "(Un)Tethering Surveillance: Power Dynamics, Emerging Technologies, Social Control." Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.

Keywords: Communication Theory, Communication Ethics, Rhetorical Theory, Contact, Touch. Ethics in Contact Rhetoric re-orients communication theory by centering touch and de-centering symbolic acts. Ethical interactions are defined as bio-relational dances arcing steps of nurture, respect, justice, and too often, violence. Centering humanity’s physical mutuality is a vital move today. This book re-balances rhetorical theory by enabling critique of embodied relational patterns. Critical case studies demonstrate contact rhetoric’s rich heuristic and diverse applications. Visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.