Affective Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Determinate Negation

Bristow, Tom

doi:10.1080/0969725x.2017.1387374

Affective Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Determinate Negation

Bristow, Tom

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Tom Bristow

Abstract

My analysis of political debate in the United Kingdom during the summer of 2016 unpacks the compression of two highly complex issues within an unprecedented moment in British politics: reinvestment in nuclear arms (Trident) and nuclear energy (Hinkley Point C) during the EU referendum crisis. I recover unities and discontinuities across events in this period and throughout history both to examine the non-identity between the particular and the universal as a major trope in parliamentary rhetoric, which construed the universal sentiment of world peace and denied this in terms of security, and to seek out the use of determinate negation, especially when it has bearing on the advancing of climate-related policies. From nuanced speeches in the House of Commons and House of Lords, I move tentatively outwards by gesturing to the moment of truth in reified concepts, seeking to pry them open in their non-identity with art objects of the Anthropocene that are understood within a context of ecological poetics.

Citation

Bristow, T. (2017). Affective Rhetoric and the Cultural Politics of Determinate Negation. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 22(3), 103-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2017.1387374

Journal Article Type	Article
Online Publication Date	Nov 9, 2017
Publication Date	Nov 9, 2017
Deposit Date	Oct 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date	May 9, 2019
Journal	Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities
Print ISSN	0969-725X
Electronic ISSN	1469-2899
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	22
Issue	3
Pages	103-132
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2017.1387374

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Angelaki on 09 Nov 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0969725X.2017.1387374.