Price pulls as an example of how she is using material rhetorics the discussion of a smartphone by Lavinia Hirsu in an article in Precarious Rhetorics. In particular, Hirsu points out how for Syrian refugees the rhetorics in the often American and European imaginations around photos of Syrian refugees with smartphones mean that the smartphones aren't just tools for those who own them but are entangled in the discursive and rhetorical relations that make up the lives of the refugees. When uniformed others see a refugee holding a smartphone they question refugee status or need, in this way the smartphone is entangled in how the refugee is read in ways that can cause their bodyminds to be misunderstood, sometimes with fatal ends.