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xxi Abookonambiencewillhavemuchtoacknowledge—people,events,places, music, moods, and more. First and foremost, I am grateful to a number of friends and colleagues who at various key times provided invaluable help. Diane Davis, Daniel Smith, and Nathaniel Rivers gave me very generous readings of chapters; their insights and acumen helped make the book much better. Additional thanks go to Diane Davis for persuading me to keep with persuasion. Patricia Sullivan read the whole manuscript (wow!) and provided excellent commentary. Other readers who have encouraged and inspired me are John Ackerman, David Blakesley, Joshua Gunn, Byron Hawk, Diane Keeling, Derek Mueller, Jenny Edbauer Rice, and Victor Vitanza. Thanks also to those with whom I have discussed the project or who asked for the manuscript in draft form, including Scot Barnett, Casey Boyle, Jim Brown, Marilyn Cooper, Greg Goodale, Carl Herndl, Dennis Lynch, Marc Santos, and Christopher Yeomans. Steve Mailloux talked with me extensively about the project on a warm fall night in South Carolina ; that conversation was quite helpful and enlightening. Others who have been very helpful and supportive include Geof Carter, Debra Hawhee, and Kelly Pender. Jeff Rice provided inspiration in beer and beer tips. Michael Bernard-Donals and Victor Vitanza wrote letters of support for a 2008 Purdue Center for Humanistic Studies Fellowship that gave me a semester off for writing at a crucial time in the project. I also wish to thank my students in our 2011 “Posthumanism and Rhetoric” class at Purdue; discussing the texts and issues was tremendously generative for finishing and revising the manuscript. More thanks go to John Muckelbauer and my second, anonymous reA c k n o w l e D g m e n T s viewer, both of whom provided generous and insightful commentary on the manuscript. Joshua Shanholtzer has been a steady guide as Pittsburgh’s acquisitions editor, and I am grateful to David Bartholomae and Jean Ferguson Carr for once again publishing my work. An early version of chapter 1 appeared as “In the House of Doing: Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience” in JAC 24.4 (2004); an early version of chapter 2 appeared as “Invention in the Wild: Locating Kairos in SpaceTime ,” in Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser, eds., The Locations of Composition (2007); an early version of chapter 3 appeared as “Towards the Chōra: Kristeva, Derrida, and Ulmer on Emplaced Invention,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 40.3 (2007); and an early version of chapter 4 appeared as “Music@Microsoft.Windows: Composing Ambience,” in The Writing Instructor (May 2010) (http://www.writinginstructor.com/rickert). I thank those publications for permission to reproduce this material in revised form. A number of locations have proved to be important for writing and revising this work, and a book on ambience would be remiss in not noting a few of them: Greyhouse Coffee Shop, Scotty’s Brewhouse, and my basement, with its vintage 1970s stereo (AR-98LS and now Snell Type A III speakers) and a large selection of ambient, electronic, prog, and jazz vinyl. Contributions above and beyond noted for Selim Sivad, One Brain, and KS and the Berlin school. The seed essay for this book, “In the House of Doing,” was written in 2004 while I was on prednisone for an allergic reaction, and oddly, in 2012, at project’s end, I find myself again on prednisone. And finally, I give thanks to my wife, Jenny Bay, who supported me throughout this project with patience, care, and her own deep insights. She is in all ways my love and joy. xxii acknowledgments ...