Conspectus 
David Depew

Introduction to a Special Issue on
Rhetorics of Biology in the Age
of Biomechanical Reproduction

Rhetorical Invention
Celeste M. Condit

A Posthumanist Archaeological Expedition

Richard Doyle

A Coma Speaks:
Dead Zones of Media and the
Replication of Family Value

Leah Ceccarelli

Uniting Biology and the Social Sciences:
A Rhetorical Comparison of
E. O. Wilson’s Consilience and
Theodosius Dobzhansky’s Mankind Evolving

Steve Fuller

The Darwinian Left:
A Rhetoric of Realism or Reaction?

Chuck Dyke

The Silent Spring of Bruno Latour,
Or Rachel Carson Never Was Modern

Cristina S. Lopez

Post-Biomechanics:
Difference and Gender in
Margulis and Sagan’s What Is Sex?