ABSTRACT
Bazerman’s definition, relying as it does on repetitions of “rhetoric” and “technology,” isn’t terribly reassuring to those of us who might like to pin down a concrete definition of “the rhetoric of technology,” a slippery phrase linking two terms that are themselves difficult to define. But what is clear in the quotation is that technology and rhetoric are, in his assessment, coembedded in culture. Technologies are inseparable from the rhetorics that describe, promote, and of course document them, and are also themselves tools with rhetorical constructions and implications.
