jim ridolfo

My single-authored book project, The Pigeon and the Honeycomb: Rethinking Rhetorical Delivery for the 21st Century, builds a new understanding of rhetorical delivery from the experiences, stories, and documents of activists in Ingham County, Michigan where I spent more than four years conducting fieldwork, collecting oral histories, and gathering primary documents. One of the key concepts I introduce, “rhetorical velocity,” helps to theorize the strategies involved with composing documents, press advisories for example, that will later be recomposed and redelivered by third parties. This new type of delivery requires authors to “think about composing for recomposition.” This concept is further elaborated in an article by the same title that I co-authored with Dànielle DeVoss and published in the January 2009 issue of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.