“Undermining Risk and Technical Communication extends how TPC scholars can conceptualize risk, moving from discrete moments of disaster to long-term unfolding of hazards for capitalist gains while disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. This book formalizes this conception of risk and provides several concepts that help us read risk and crisis more expansively.” — Ryan Weber, University of Alabama in Huntsville

“This book will change how the field of TPC discusses the origins of the field, its complicated history, its current practices and research projects, and future interventions we commit to fulfilling. It provides a blueprint for doing this work within risk communication, but it also goes beyond that in providing a map for us to think about how we may want to understand our fields’ commitment to and actions toward justice-oriented and ethical futures.” — Michelle F. Eble, East Carolina University

“Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric is the first book in rhetorical studies on the controversial topic of geoengineering. More importantly, the concept of geologic rhetoric it develops is the best discussion of rhetorical theory and the problematics of climate change that I have seen, and it provides an exciting new direction in rhetoric of science and the environment. It is carefully researched and theorized, but it is also very readable and engaging.”
—Carl G. Herndl, coeditor of Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America
 
“Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder takes what could easily be viewed as the tectonic rift between the sciences and the humanities and helps bridge the divide. Here he offers a ‘geologic rhetoric’ that is grounded not in ‘either/or’ propositions and hierarchical assumptions but rather in more nuanced ideas about how humans may work alongside our planet in deliberative and responsive ways to achieve a sustainable future.”
—Amy D. Propen, author of Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene
 
“This is an exceptional overview of what we might justifiably consider a terrifying science—geoengineering—that asks us to think about how our worldviews quite literally shape our world. ‘The earth,’ Pflugfelder writes, ‘is being rhetorically weaponized,’ and in this powerful but accessible account we’re told a story that weaves together materiality, non-Western rhetorics, risk, capitalism, and communication. Academic books have a reputation for dryness; this one is not. I not only read this cover to cover but enthusiastically came back for more.”
—Derek G. Ross, editor of Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric

20 Research Papers; 14 Experience Reports; 2 Industry Insights; 2 Panel Abstracts; 3 Poster Abstracts; 9 Student Research Competition Poster Abstracts.

“Technical communicators, engineers, and designers in the automotive industry, as well as researchers with expertise and interest in actor-network theory (ANT), will find Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation a valuable book. [It] offers a unique contribution to scholarly work on professional communication in the transportation industry.” 
— Aimee Kendall Roundtree, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication

“What Pflugfelder’s book reveals is that when we think about whether transportation technologies are persuasive, we create the possibility for intervention.”
— Kathleen F. Oswald, Villanova University, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

“Communicating Mobility and Technology: A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation is a unique contribution to studies in both technical communication and automobility and should be of interest to anyone working in industrial rhetoric,mobility technologies, automotive transportation projects, or the history of rhetorical language.”
— Mark W. Shealy, Texas Tech University, Rhetoric Society Quarterly

“The text will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners who work within and around large systems and ecologies similar to automobility, including fields and sites like disaster communication, public transportation systems, government agencies, environmental rhetorics, and logistics planning.” 
— Daniel L. Hocutt, Universtiy of Richmond, Communication Design Quarterly