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Insignificant Wranglings
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Sojourner Truth and the War on Women
From “Ain’t I a Woman?” December 1951: If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right … Continue reading
Posted in feminism-is-still-necessary, politics
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Levinas and the Sophistic Virtue of “Deception”
I’m reading this passage across Latour’s insistence upon chains of translations (Pandora’s Hope) and Susan Jarratt’s explication of Gorgias notion of Apate (deception) as virtue); Levinas, from his interview with Philippe Nemo: A radical reflection, obstinate about itself, a cogito … Continue reading
New Media Production
This fall I will be piloting a New Media Production class for our PhD program. This aims to be different from my usual “read a colossal amount of theory” approach to graduate courses; the emphasis will be on that final … Continue reading
Latour, Levinas, Vitanza, a Rhetoric of Obligation
A quick threading of my last few posts: Levinas, from the later essay “God and Philosophy” (a rather remarkable essay that integrates so much of Levinas’s career–the discussion of insomnia from Time and the Other, the insistence upon (un)saying the … Continue reading
Response: “Ignorance is Strength”
Here’s another post coming from a Facebook prompt. QV pointed me towards Krugman’s column “Ignorance is Strength” in today’s NYT. My response: There is so much to say in response here. First: I do think the turn, in the humanities … Continue reading
Posted in ecological-rhetoric, education
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Messiness as a Virtue
I’m re-reading Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous today for my New Media class and really appreciating his chapter “Messiness as a Virtue.” Two passages worth sharing (i.e., remembering): Simplicity was the only reasonable strategy before we developed machines that can handle … Continue reading
Posted in new-media-class, rhetoric, rhetorical-theory, Vitanza, weinberger
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Question and Answer
On Facebook, someone asks: “Come on people, is it so hard to have manners?” I would say “yes” because having manners rests on a recognition and prioritization of the other person. So much of our contemporary technological life aims at … Continue reading
Posted in davis, ethics, face-to-face, levinas, rhetoric
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Help Stop Crippling Budget Cuts
Yesterday we learned of Florida State senator JD Alexander’s proposed budget, which would cut USF’s state funding by 58%. Today I am asking all my readers to consider the following articles: Tampa Bay Times USF’s Official Response If so moved, … Continue reading
I’ll Take Know Your Rhetorician
Today in my undergraduate Rhetorical Theory class, we played “Ancient Rhetorical Jeopardy.”
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Colbert, Citizens United, and Irony
Apparently I live under some kind of rock, because today was the first I heard of Steven Colbert’s PAC. There’s a short article over at Slate documenting Colbert’s attack on the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision. A few random thoughts: … Continue reading