Winner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award In Still Life with Rhetoric Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism actor network theory and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked global environment. Rather than study how an alreadymaterialized visual text functions within a specific context Gries investigates how images often circulate and transform across media genre and location at viral rates. A fourpart case study of Shepard Faireys now iconic Obama Hope image elucidates how images reassemble collective life as they actualize in different versions enter into various relations and spark a firework of activity across the globe.