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Rhetoric and Gaming 2.2: Dali, Surrealism, and the Rhetorical Triangle
Today’s plan: It’s Twitter Time Write in your game journal Discuss: Dali Homework Twitter I’ve written an introduction to twitter to get us started. Two Comments from the Game Journals Regarding catharsis, someone wrote: As far as this topic goes, … Continue reading
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Expository Writing 2.1: The Proposal
Today’s plans: Some Twitter stuff The Proposal Show me some research Twitter I want to make sure everyone has their accounts set up. I’ll ask you all to favorite a particular post, and then to follow everyone who has favorited … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 2.1 Tolstoy, Art, and Identification
Today’s plan: Play This: Bad Paper Art and Identification Back to discussing games Twitter This semester I’ll be asking you to use twitter. This is for professional development and civic development. Today we will create accounts, and I’ll ask you … Continue reading
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Socrates, Callicles, and a Reason for Long Speeches
So I have asked each of you to work from a single sentence. Now it is my turn to do the same. My sentence comes from the introductory moments of the Gorgias dialogue, when Socrates is laying down the rules. … Continue reading
Historical Rhetorics 2. Gorgias and Phaedrus.
Week Two: Issues with the grid; secondary source presentations ( Ballif and Enos on historiography Gorgias and the Phaedrus Break Prepping the homework on Aristotle Socrates, Callicles, and a Reason for Long Speeches What can we do about the grid? … Continue reading
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Expository Writing 1.2 / Twitter, Fandom Topics
On today’s agenda: Talking about potential topics Setting up Twitter accounts Potential Fandom Topics A few things up front: let me be clear–I don’t have an exact idea for what a good project in this course looks like. This course … Continue reading
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Rhetoric and Gaming 1.2
Today’s agenda: Set up and discuss the game journals using Google Docs Discuss Aristotle Generate list of games Game Journals As I mentioned in the first class, I will be asking you to keep a game journal for the next … Continue reading
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Expository Writing 1.1: Welcome.
On today’s agenda: Canvas write Cover the syllabus. What is rhetoric? Homework: In Canvas, write up five sentences on two different possible communities you might join.
Historical Rhetorics Week 1: Footnotes to Plato
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1979 And so we will begin to trace the end of rhetoric with the … Continue reading
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From Cynicism to Kynicism to Kinecism: Moving Bodies and Engendering Change
Hi! Below is a rough draft of a panel proposal for RSA 2016. Donnie J. Sackey and I are looking for a few more people to join the panel–if there is enough interest, and we get 6+ people, then we … Continue reading
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