Christopher Carter

Brianne Donaldson

Future of Meat Without Animals

The Rhetoric of Dystopia develops an idea of “emergent metalepsis” that describes the uncanny moments where fictive texts anticipate material events, blurring the boundary between the storyworld and the world of reception. Christopher Carter treats dystopia as rhetoric that shapes collective identities while speeding across platforms and geopolitical borders, at once critiquing and exemplifying the circulation of power relations through varied modes. This rhetoric features rampant viruses, authoritarian governments, corporate behemoths, corrupt educational and scientific institutions, and brutal policing, sometimes amplifying existing trends and sometimes merely documenting them. From Bong Joon-ho to Reed Morano, Octavia Butler to Richard McGuire, artists proffer arguments whose gravity we often fail to register, thus calling into question the uses of media literacy in an age of looming cataclysm. Carter situates this rhetoric within scholarship on literacy, built environments, border policies, global food production, and the Anthropocene.

Prophecies and Provocations in the Anthropocene

The Rhetoric of Dystopia

The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America: Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams argues that authoritarian strains of U.S. governance violate the idea of ethos in its ancient, collectivist sense. Christopher Carter posits that this corrupts the cultural “dwelling place” through public relations strategies, policies on race and immigration, and a general disregard for environmental concerns. Donald Trump’s presidency provides a signal instance of the problem, refashioning the dwelling place as a fortress while promoting sweeping forms of exclusion and appealing to power for power’s sake. Carter’s analysis shows that, emboldened by the purported flexibility of truth, Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric underwrites unrestrained policing, militarized borders, populist nationalism, and relentless assaults on investigative journalism. These trends bode ill for human rights and critical education as well as progressive social movements and the forms of life they entail. Worse yet, the corruption of ethos threatens life in general by privileging corporate prerogatives over ecological attunement. In response to those tendencies, Carter highlights modes of activism that merge antiracist and labor rhetoric to offer a more fluid, unpredictably emergent vision of social space, allying with ecofeminism in ways that make that vision durable. Scholars of rhetoric, political science, history, ecology, race studies, and American studies will find this book particularly useful.

Billionaires, Bureaucrats, and Body Slams

The Corruption of Ethos in Fortress America

Alexandria Lockett

Iris D. Ruiz

James Chase Sanchez

"Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods explores how antiracism, as a critical methodology, can be used to structure knowledge production about language, culture, and communication. In each chapter, the authors draw on this methodology to reflect on how their experiences with race and racism dramatically influence our cultural literacies, canon formation, truth-telling, and digitally mediated modes of interpretation"--

Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods

Soul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today? Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized. Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food justice and Christian practice.

Race, Faith, and Food Justice

The Spirit of Soul Food

Gorgeously illustrated angels based on Biblical and real-life angelic encounters seem to leap off the pages as this sweet story carries readers through glimpses of God's heavenly helpers. The accompanying Bible verses and exercises help parents and teachers lead children further into this fascinating glimpse into God's Kingdom.

Angels All Around Us

Christopher Pensham

Tornadic super-cells are violent and unpredictable. Controlling them is impossible, or is it? Sarah Gately chases them to find out. But her hometown is being rocked by unexplained deaths. Is there a connection? Carter taps the power of human imagination while exploring heart pounding possibilities in this electrifying techno-thriller.

The Legend of Evil

This volume provides historical, material, aesthetic, and philosophical explorations of plant-based and in vitro food products, including multi-disciplinary approaches from industry, academia, and food advocates.

The Future of Meat Without Animals

Lord Percival Kilvanock est un châtelain écossais heureux mais également un criminologue de renom. Et lorsque l'on assassine un de ses amis dans la chambre d'Agatha Christie, à l'hôtel Old Cataract d'Assouan, il n'hésite pas à tester ses méthodes sur le terrain, avec l'aide du bouillant Angus Dodson, superintendant de Scotland Yard. Les deux Britanniques tombent dans un panier de crabes mortel. Ce n'est certes pas pour rien qu'on a tué un jeune et brillant égyptologue, que la Reine du crime s'y trouve involontairement mêlée, et que plane sur l'enquête l'ombre d'Akhénaton, le pharaon maudit...

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