Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster offers a novel and timely take on the rhetoric of memory and memorialization in the context of disaster rhetorics. It skillfully weaves psychoanalytic concepts together with detailed case studies concerning disaster preparedness in the United States while navigating several complex theoretical topical domains. Combining insights drawn from the rhetoric of science and technology with psychoanalytic and genealogical concepts on the function of memory, history, and governance, this work is especially pertinent given the ever-intensifying exigence of the climate crisis and its disproportionate effects on raced populations marginalized by crumbling infrastructure, systemic inequality, and manufactured precarity.

• IntroductionChapter 1: On Models and MemoryChapter 2: Physical Scale Modeling and the Rhetoric of SublimationChapter 3: Standard Project Disasters and Rhetorical TranspositionChapter 4: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the Rhetoric of “The Big One”Chapter 5: Predictions of/and the Past

Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster offers a novel and timely take on the rhetoric of memory and memorialization in the context of disaster rhetorics. It skillfully weaves psychoanalytic concepts together with detailed case studies concerning disaster preparedness in the United States while navigating several complex theoretical topical domains. Combining insights drawn from the rhetoric of science and technology with psychoanalytic and genealogical concepts on the function of memory, history, and governance, this work is especially pertinent given the ever-intensifying exigence of the climate crisis and its disproportionate effects on raced populations marginalized by crumbling infrastructure, systemic inequality, and manufactured precarity.

• IntroductionChapter 1: On Models and MemoryChapter 2: Physical Scale Modeling and the Rhetoric of SublimationChapter 3: Standard Project Disasters and Rhetorical TranspositionChapter 4: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the Rhetoric of “The Big One”Chapter 5: Predictions of/and the Past

Jeremy R. Grossman holds a PhD in communication studies and currently teaches classes at the University of Maryland.

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster offers a novel and timely take on the rhetoric of memory and memorialization in the context of disaster rhetorics. It skillfully weaves psychoanalytic concepts together with detailed case studies concerning disaster preparedness in the United States while navigating several complex theoretical topical domains. Combining insights drawn from the rhetoric of science and technology with psychoanalytic and genealogical concepts on the function of memory, history, and governance, this work is especially pertinent given the ever-intensifying exigence of the climate crisis and its disproportionate effects on raced populations marginalized by crumbling infrastructure, systemic inequality, and manufactured precarity.

• IntroductionChapter 1: On Models and MemoryChapter 2: Physical Scale Modeling and the Rhetoric of SublimationChapter 3: Standard Project Disasters and Rhetorical TranspositionChapter 4: Prefiguring Hurricane Katrina and the Rhetoric of “The Big One”Chapter 5: Predictions of/and the Past