Carlo Michelstaedter - The Constitution of Rhetoric - APHELIS
A brief summary of “The Constitution of Rhetoric,” a section of Carlo Michelstaedter’s dissertation Persuasion and Rhetoric| APHELIS
I got my autism diagnosis at a weird time: about a month and a half before the Global Pandemic. One day I was learning why I isolate myself, the next day the whole world was isolating right along with me. During the following year of lockdown and social distancing, many housebound folks, mostly young adults, … Continue reading "Yeah, it’s called a disability"| Pathetic Fallacy
Back in August, I reviewed the absolutely gorgeous new book Ferns: Lessons In Survival From Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants. And commenters on posts are awesome, because Jeremy Fox asked what he called a “quibbly question”: “Do the authors really try to make the case that ferns are the “most adaptable” plants? Or is…that phrase…just another […]| Scientist Sees Squirrel
or, Last Summer a DJ Saved My Life “Hip Hop does work that a lot of other things don’t do” Young Guru (viii). The way that we imagine English Studies, specifically Composition and Rhetoric (Comp/Rhet), today needs a radical shift. Specifically, we need new techniques for Writing Studies pedagogy to reach students in a more meaningful […]| Sounding Out!
Figure 1 One of the problems of the modern world is that it is so deep, specialised, and complicated that it is difficult hard to tell real progress in some specialised areas from bullshit. This is a problem in science, but I think, everywhere that anything complicated is happening This leads to the deeper problem that it is easier to seem good than to be good. Sometimes, e.g. art, these can be nearly the same thing. But sometimes, with the production of material goods or the production of ...| The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-consider’d enterprises
A brief summary of “The Constitution of Rhetoric,” a section of Carlo Michelstaedter’s dissertation Persuasion and Rhetoric| APHELIS
Talitha May | Portland State University Even though AI generated text is a new technology, its novelty underscores the importance of extending rhetoric’s historical concerns of truth and bias in discourse to critique AI generated text.| Composition Studies
Over the last days, England and Northern Ireland have witnessed a wave of racist violence and destruction. These riots, which have thrown the country into chaos, included attacks on mosques, burning of cars, and confrontations with the police. The racist nature of the events is made clear by the racist chants that are sung amid them, by posters shown by participants, and by the selective targeting of minorities. Given how shocking these scenes are, one naturally wonders what is causing them. ...| Verfassungsblog
In “The Body: An Abstract and Actual Rhetorical Concept”, Karma Chavez critically examines how rhetoric historically privileges certain abstract bodies, i.e. white, cisgender, able-bodied, heterose…| Critical Posthumanism Network
Rhetoric and Posthumanism Mehdi Mohammadi “Posthumanism first appears as antithetical, nearly impossible, for rhetoric”,[1] as the former ventures beyond anthropocentric narratives, yet the latter,…| Critical Posthumanism Network
