Category Archives: rhetoric

Visual Rhetoric 6 (Friday): Book Production Project

Posted on February 19, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Remix Posters Introduce Project 2 Watch “Work of Art” Form Groups (Canvas Thread) Break InDesign Workshop: Lesson 3 Homework Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. It is my goal that we finish … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric Week 4 (Friday): Poster Remixes and Make it Ugly

Posted on February 5, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Hang posters Introduce Remix Assignment Break Make It Ugly

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Rhetorical Theory 16.1 / Rhetoric and Ethics: When the Desire for Unity Meets an Insistence Upon Alterity

Posted on April 21, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Yesterday, as I was imagining what I would say to close this class, kairos happened. Originally, I thought I might return to our opening class and attempt to redefine rhetoric. But then Brittney Cooper’s ““It’s the Blackness that scares everybody”: … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 10.1 / What is Postmodernism?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today I want to do a few things. First, I will ask you to write in Canvas for a few minutes. I want to get a sense of what you do/not know regarding Postmodernism. Second, I want to take a … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 7.1 / Def of Man and Terministic Screens

Posted on February 17, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today we work through two more of Burke’s central essays, one on metaphysics and the other on language (and the way language structures/impacts our relation to the world). I want to spend the beginning of class dealing with the former, … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 3.1 / Aristotle

Posted on January 20, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today we have to sift through quite a bit of Aristotle. I want to: Discuss Aristotle’s orientation toward rhetoric Identify the major branches of rhetoric Identify the primary rhetorical appeals Identify the five “canons” of rhetoric Explicate a few key … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 2.2 / From Plato to Aristotle

Posted on January 15, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

We have too much to do today! Question: Should school teach morality? Use Twitter in class w/ the tag #enc3371 Flash read together: Plato’s Phaedrus A Somewhat Spontaneous Defense of Plato Intro to Aristotle Homework A Question At the beginning … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 1.2: Walter Ong

Posted on January 8, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

We’ve got a number of things to address in today’s class: First, I want to introduce four terms to help us think about philosophy, rhetoric, and language Second, we need to discuss the Ong reading Third, I want to go … Continue reading →

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Listening, Passivity, and/as Ethics

Posted on November 22, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

This morning a tweet caught my attention: Loved hearing Albers and Harste speak about reclaiming writing #ncte14 #reclaimthejoy #literacies pic.twitter.com/ifqU0mEdTY — Jon Wargo (@wargojon) November 22, 2014 I haven’t read Albers and Harste before, so I’ll have to track down … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric and Gaming 8.2 Bogost, Rhetoric, and Procedurality

Posted on October 16, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

We’ll talk more about Bogost next week, after you have completed Project 2. In today’s class, you’ll take a quiz that will highlight some key terms. But I wanted to take a minute to explicate what I see as a … Continue reading →

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