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 understand why the announcers are encouraged to refer to the yardage point that will give a first down as “the line to gain” since it is a line and not a “first down” in itself. But it’s awkward and doesn’t sound like a football term. Which is why I suggest “line to go” to […] The post Line to Go appeared first on Vox Popoli.| Vox Popoli
As Israel’s war on Gaza escalates with IDF troops now moving to take over Gaza City, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been deploying more extreme language than usual to describe his plans for “total” victory over Hamas. He has eschewed ceasefire talks, and is instead leaning into his expansive vision for a “Greater Israel,” which not only includes an Israeli takeover of Gaza but of neighboring territories too. His public remarks and media appearances over the last week ...| Responsible Statecraft
Democrats should speak more “like normal people” and examine their language, liberal think tank Third Way said in a memo. The Democratic Party is scrutinizing its messaging, platform, and candidates that it’s marketing to Americans after a decisive 2024 election loss. Third Way, in a memo addressed to “All Who Wish to Stop Donald Trump […]| Washington Examiner
In great speechmaking, there’s a received wisdom: “Start strong, end stronger.” People remember the first thing you say, and the last. If both pack a punch, the speech will be powerful. Today, I’m focusing on the ending (I’ve posted before about how to begin a speech). The ending of a speech is the moment when ... The post How to Close a Speech appeared first on Public Words.| Public Words
Written for a 9th grade rhetoric class, this high school student essay makes a powerful case for returning the Rosetta Stone to Egypt, exploring colonial history, museum ethics, and cultural restitution.| Waldorf School of the Peninsula
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
