For my more thinky work, check out:

  • Topoi at Work: The Rhetoric of Universal Basic Income and Getting Paid | in Place in the Liberal Arts: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Text and Topos (2026) ed. Randall Fowler

  • Polysyndeton, Social Media, and the Contested Meanings of January 6, 2021 | Randall Fowler, John Moist - International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2024 (Winner of the 2025 Madison Prize from SSCA)

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  • On Master Tropes: Polysyndeton in the Age of Social Media | Randall Fowler, John Moist - The Pacific Journal, 2023

[Link forthcoming]

  • Making Sense of Online Space: How Rentierism Explains Big Tech | John Moist, Randall Fowler - The Pacific Journal, 2022

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  • Money for Nothing: A Rhetorical History of the Universal Basic Income | John Moist - PhD Dissertation, 2022

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  • Review: The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States | John Moist - Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Winter 2021

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  • The Reward of Merit: Digital Constructions of the Economic Self | John Moist - Thesis, Baylor University, 2017

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