Monthly Archives: January 2014

New Media Production for the Patel College of Global Sustainability

Project One: “Kalman” Project A multimedia project based on the work of author and artist Maira Kalman. Technologies: Digital Photography PowerPoint / MovieMaker or iMovie / Haiku Deck  Photoshop Objectives: Photography skills / concepts Image editing Visual Rhetoric (design principles–alignment, … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week Four

Visual Rhetoric Crash Course In preparation for the MEmorials, I wanted to give a quick crash course in Visual Rhetoric. Your design decisions will play a factor in the evaluation of this piece. The following is meant to provide you … Continue reading

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Contemporary Rhetorics 2014 Week Four

Nemo, Heidegger, Levinas, and Onto-Theology In his translator’s introduction, Cohen highlights Heidegger’s critique of “onto-theology.” Simplifying a bit, we can understand onto-theology as the desire for a foundation, for a metanarrative, for a transcendental grund. Of course, such a foundation can … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week Three

Tuesday First, I want to talk about the assignment sheets a bit. Here’s some comments worth discussing: I think your methods section does a nice job grounding a specific approach to the assignment–the idea of focusing on a public blindness. … Continue reading

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Contemporary Rhetorics Week Three

Peyton Manning, the Playoffs, and the Ontic/Ontological Question I wanted to follow up on one of Lauren’s questions from the end of last class–what is the difference between ontic and ontological? Heidegger addresses this early in the essay–it is the … Continue reading

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Contemporary Rhetoric 2014 Week Two

Lyotard, Readings, and the “Ruined” University Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition Key Terms: Language games, meta-narratives, legitimation, delegitimation, performativity, displacement/dissensus,  Key Points/Pages: Offers a definition of po-mo (xxiv) Failures of Marxism and the Critical Tradition (13) Tensions between Narrative knowledge and Scientific knowledge … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week Two

Tuesday: Ulmer and Electracy Today’s plan: 1. Address Ulmer’s Electronic Monuments 2. Ulmer’s interest in Haiku To begin approaching Ulmer, I want to return to some of the binaries I laid out while we were discussing Ong. This will give us … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week One

Tuesday  Hi all. Welcome to New Media. This post will help us walk through what I hope to accomplish in class today.  First, we will review the syllabus. HEY SANTOS: Remember to take attendance.  Second, we will set up accounts … Continue reading

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Contemporary Rhetorics 2014 Week One

Kant and/as Enlightenment Hello world. You have stumbled upon some lecture notes for my graduate seminar in Contemporary Rhetorics at the University of South Florida. In preparation for our first class session, students read Kant’s essay “An Answer to the … Continue reading

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