{"id":3925,"date":"2025-04-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2025-04-15T13:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:51:12","slug":"phd-student-publishes-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2025\/04\/17\/phd-student-publishes-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Student Publishes Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mehdi Mohammadi<\/strong>, who is a PhD Student in Rhetoric and Writing, recently published his paper,\u00a0&#8220;Transjective-Holobiontic Rhetoric&#8221;\u00a0in the journal\u00a0<em>Somatechnics<\/em>\u00a0by Edinburgh University Press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the abstract of Mohammadi&#8217;s paper: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This paper introduces Transjective-Holobiont Rhetoric (THR), a posthumanist framework that conceptualises algorithms as simultaneously embodying three qualities: transjective, holobiontic, and rhetorical by design. Algorithms are\u00a0<em>transjective<\/em>\u00a0in that they are both materially and subjectively constituted;\u00a0<em>holobiontic<\/em>\u00a0in that they are built upon co-evolutionary assemblages of various kinds of data, processing techniques and logical frameworks, and rhetorical in that they are purpose-driven by design. Given this, THR emphasises the recursive, symbiotic relationship between human agency and algorithmic task-orientedness as it pertains to shaping decision-making processes, influencing behaviour, and co-constructing realities in digital environments. THR advocates for context-sensitive approaches to ethical governance that recognise the co-constitutive nature of human-machine interactions in shaping moral outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more through the Edinburgh University Press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euppublishing.com\/doi\/abs\/10.3366\/soma.2025.0449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehdi Mohammadi, who is a PhD Student in Rhetoric and Writing, recently published his paper,\u00a0&#8220;Transjective-Holobiontic Rhetoric&#8221;\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Somatechnics\u00a0by Edinburgh University Press. Here is the abstract of Mohammadi&#8217;s paper: This paper introduces Transjective-Holobiont Rhetoric (THR), a posthumanist framework that conceptualises algorithms as simultaneously embodying three qualities: transjective, holobiontic, and rhetorical by design. Algorithms are\u00a0transjective\u00a0in that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3929,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}