Comm 3300 Readings/terms

Dissoi Logo, debate over Mexican Immigration

-advocating access to mexican laborers, calling for strict restrictions -discussing nation and membership

Aristotle

-individual rhetorician doing rhetoric -persuasion -appeals and enthymemes

Bowman and Pezzullo,, Counterarguments to Lennon and Foley, Dark Tourism

-labels are not necessarily useful all the time -visiting places of atrocity isn't new -"dark" is not clear distinction (auschwitz is dark but slave quarters are not?) -people even tourists need to eat, drink and go to the bathroom -death is everywhere its apart of life -responses to death are cultural, not necessarily right or wrong -didn't talk to tourists, lack of research to back up any claims

systemic interventions

-lack of healthcare -lack of grocery stores -lack of exercise facilities -too many fast food restaurants

Asen, "A public Sphere Without Public Good"

-main idea: what if people lose faith in the idea and practice of doing public good -how would public sphere coordinate action -structural transformation of public sphere, jurgen hambermas (ideal space where people negotiate authority for public decisions) -the public and its problems, john dewey (publics arise when we imagine ourselves as having impacts on collective life -Human conditions, hannah arendt (public constitute power and disperse when people do)

Cody Firearms Museum: Design and Display

-museum creates decidedly visual space through near-exclusive engagement with looking -guns transformed into objects of visual pleasure, controversy b/c used for violence

Site Sacralization

-practices that articulate symbolic meanings to specific places signify its worth touring -assumptions: tourist attractions did not start out that way

Blackfish

-pragmatic message: boycott Seaworld until they stop keeping orca whales in captivity -captive whales, 17-30 years vs. 50-100 years in wild -rebranded in March 2016, no more orca whales in captivity

Digital Genre Characteristics

-presence/absence of moral values -level of public engagement -financial resources -associations with organizations -algorithms

Davis reading, whats at stake (sea world experience)?

-reducing structural change to individual choices -sharing costs of a practice or period of history -education as information (promoting how to think, not what to think)

Ed Linenthal, Preserving memory in US Holocaust Museaum

-rhetorical constraints the museum designers faced -preserving and displaying hate (belonging), talking about hate are we promoting or countering it? -preserving and displaying bodies in pain, what are ethics of showing bodies that have been traumatized

West, "performing resistance in kitchen"

-rhetorical situation -everyday life -rhetorics of resistance

Ward Churchhill

-wrote article and spoke about 911 and spoke on behalf of Native Americans claiming to be one later found to be false -was teacher at CU for ethic studies

Watts reanimating zombie voices

-zombie as metaphor

Kenneth Burke, The Pentad

Agent: who Scene: when and where Act: what Purpose: why Agency: how

Aristotles genres of Rhetoric

Deliberative: legislative, political Forensic: legal Epideictic: ceremonial, commemorate

Narrative of Paradigm

Theory of symbolic actions - words or deeds that have sequence and meaning for those who live, create or interpret them

Blood speak

biological concept of race, emphasizing centrality of blood in performance of Indian identity

Scapegoat

brings people together to recognize similarities in stark contrast to difference

Brown, "Walled States"

broadens thinking globally/historically, context three paradoxes of our time -travel (opening/blocking), human conditions/value (exclusion/stratification), modes of comm (virtual/networked power)

social controversy

extended rhetorical engagement that critiques, re-situates, and develops communication practices bridging between public and personal spheres

Public Sphere

forums and interactions in which different individuals engage each other about subjects of shared concern that affect wider community -not only what we communicate about but how we communicate

Management Metaphor

individual maintenance and food discipline

Narrative Coherence

internally consistent, though narratives are often fragmented and inconsistent

pragmatic communication

language (verbal) and nonverbal modes of interaction that convey an instrumental purpose

What does Watts say

metaphor for politics, public level you can write someone off by ignoring voice, only way to deal with it is to not deal with it = incessant moan

Criteria to pass Narrative Judgement

narrative coherence, narrative fidelity

Dissoi Logoi to Aristotle

thinking in opposites is necessary both to arrive at true state of matter and anticipate counterarguments

Gilbert, White (1911-2006), "Father of floodplain Management"

-(1910-11), Boulder open space plan, allowing flooding to go into bike lanes and open space away from communities, homes, businesses to not cause as much damage -before research public flood control norm: control -argument, make room for river or adaptation

Burke: "Rhetoric of Hitlers Battle"

-Thesis: hitler has a plan and we need to understand it before we can prevent it -common enemy or scapegoat of mein kampf = international jew, exernalizing problem rather than internalizing it, easier to rally around -medicine man as metaphor = leader prescribing remedy to ailment -unification devices (identification moves) = provinding scapegoat brings people together, employing religion as basis for difference

Dramatistic Perspective

-all the worlds a stage and men and women are merely players -dramas of living help understand motive

"Warning Sovereignty"

-argues walls today are less likely built as national defense and more prone to transnational forces, migration, smuggling, crime, terror -reflects blurred distinction between inside and outside of nation

Why do we value feeling presence?

-attention, respect, open minds/hearts/ears -sense of connection -possibility for change

Blood Quantum

-classifying native americans, used to establish fraction of native heritage that tribe requires for membership

Ed Linenthal, Preserving memory US Holocaust Museum

-creating museum off-site from tragedy -preserving and diplaying Hate (promoting or countering hate) -preserving/displaying bodies in pain

"The incessant Moan": Reanimating Zombie Voices

-dissoi logo takes in all cultural assumptions, baggage, etc for argument to work -postracial: more we talk about race as problem, more we create it as problem

George Orwall, Rhetorical Constraint

-dystopican narrative: imagining worst of what could become -omnipresent screens -big brother -newspeak -failed love story

Burke's Terministic Screen

-every reflection of reality is a selection and deflection -every time you talk about one thing you arent talking about something else -every time you bring something to forefront you are putting something in background

Milsteins argument

-extending on previous writings of pointing and naming and applying to whales -recognize individuals in another species as unique -gives back agency to animals, consubstantiality: two things come together to become part of whole

Lennon and Foley, what is wrong with Dark Tourism?

-fit a site of atrocity into tourist itinerary that includes dance clubs -spend only 90 minutes visiting -want bathroom and something to eat -want souvenir -take pictures in spaces of mourning

Lennon and Foley 3 shifts

-global communiation technologies create initial interest in death and travel -objects of dark tourism introduce anxiety and doubt about the project of modernity (being modern) -educative elements exist with commodification modernity

Kenneth Burke (1897-1993)

-how rhetorical criticism is practice of analysis can give us insight to culture and controversy -identification -dramatistic perspective as attitude

Dechaine, "Bordering the Civic Imaginary"

-immigration problem lies with border not immigrant -alienization: hegemonic project concerned with forging and maintaining of dominant american civic values, signifies racist, capitalist and nationalist discourses -Minutemen Civil Defense Corps (MCDC): 2005-2010, goal to stop illegal immigration from Mexico to US, American (british subjects) residents (everyday men) ready to fight in the militia in a 'minute' before and during revolution

epidemic of epidemics

-increasingly common label in civic discourse/media -heightened change: undergoing fundamental re-ordering of relations with bios/nature and culture

Losh's four definitions of digital rhetoric

1. mathematical theories 2. new digital genres 3. messages existing in public sphere 4. rhetorical interpretation of computer generated media

Great Chain of Being

Gods, angels, kings, queens, commoners, closer to God more agency you have

Trope of the "as if"

In printing the as if image, it is less shocking and it enables the viewers to imagine and engage in what is happening.

Dark Tourism

a fundamental shift in the way in which death, disaster, and other grotesque attractions are being handled by those who offer associated tourist products

The Pentad: Kenneth Burke

agent: who performed act act: what was or will be done scene: where and when was it done agengy: how was it done purpose: why, what was goal

Dramatistic perspective

all the worlds a stage and men and women are merely players, theater as metaphor

Narrative Fidelity

consistent with what we know, appropriate/sensitive to the rhetorical situation

ethos/pathos/logos

credibility, emotion, logic

Citizenship

discursive mode of public action always conditioned by social status, relations of power, institutional factors

"The Incessant Moan": Reanimating Zombie Voices

dissoi logoi takes in all of cultural assumptions, and baggage for argument to work

Types of Rhetorical Situations

epideictic (ceremonial occasions praise/blame), deliberate (intended for legislative assemblies with questions of right and wrong) forensic (addressing questions of the just and unjust court of law)

epidemic metaphor

gov gets public attention, positive: gets attention, sense of urgency, negative: scare tactic

constitutive communication

language (verbal) and nonverbal modes of interaction that shape, orient, and negotiate meaning and values

Carole Blaire, Analyzing Materialism

limitation is that reflecting on what its supposed to do deflected consequences

Frame

pattern of interpretation that people use to organize their understanding of reality and to set agenda

Anthropocentric

study of humans placing importance on humans, dominating world around them

Steins Argument

the ads rhetoric of freedom and revolution is used to constitute consumers, not revels leaving in tact capitalisms ideological investment in technological realization of social progress -having access to stories that have not been previously shared because of lack of technology

Rhetorical Borders

there is no real border, put border up use of narratives

Rhetorical Foundations of Communication

to inform, to share, to join

(Pezzulo's article) Public Sphere

what we communicate about (public goods, life etc)