tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86047897266153052702024-03-20T16:42:31.383-07:00Contact Zone RhetoricUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-28402639273074499052014-07-02T00:31:00.001-07:002014-07-02T00:32:08.982-07:00Hermsen: KairosInleiding Kairos een nieuwe bevlogenheid:<br />
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<span class="style14"><i>'Het curieuze personage dat met gevleugelde schouders en voeten op
dit boek prijkt, is voor een 21e eeuwse lezer niet gemakkelijk thuis
te brengen. Is het een engel of een daimon uit de klassieke oudheid, of
toch eerder een sprookjesfiguur of allegorische verbeelding uit de middel-
eeuwen? En waarom staat hij in opperste concentratie en diep voorover
gebogen te kijken naar de weegschaal die hij in zijn hand houdt?
Toch niet omdat hij een caloriearm diëet wil aanprijzen? Nee, de weeg-
schaal verwijst naar het zorgvuldig wegen van het geschikte ogenblik, de
juiste gelegenheid en de juiste argumenten. Want wie hier staat afgebeeld,
is niemand minder dan Kairos, de jongste zoon van Zeus, die in de klassieke
oudheid ook wel ‘de god van het geschikte moment’ werd genoemd.
Tot aan het einde van de 16e eeuw bleef deze mythische god van de tijd
tot de verbeelding van menig filosoof, theoloog, arts of dichter spreken.
Kairos was de tijd die ertoe deed, de tijd die kansen bood, de tijd die voor
een doorbraak wist te zorgen. Hij vertegenwoordigde kortom al die
bevlogen momenten van schoonheid, inzicht en daadkracht die het leven
bijzonder maken'.<br />
Joke. J. Hermsen'</i><i><br />
</i></span><br />
<br />
<br />
In Stil de tijd noemde Joke J. Hermsen stilte, rust en
wachten voorwaarden voor werkelijke creativiteit en helder nadenken.
Maar hoe komen we na de rust weer in beweging?
<br />
<br />
In Kairos, een nieuwe bevlogenheid keert Hermsen zich tegen
het ‘technocratische denken’ en houdt ze een filosofisch pleidooi voor
de nieuwe bevlogenheid van de homo empathicus, die ons doen & denken
kan inspireren om een uitweg uit de economische en ecologische crisis
te vinden. <br />
<br />
Hermsen toont en onderzoekt in dit boek diverse manieren van
wishful thinking, zoals het principe van de hoop (Ernst Bloch), het
enthousiasme (Kant, Plato en Nietzsche) en het principe van nataliteit
(Hannah Arendt).
<br />
<br />
Tevens beschrijft ze een aantal vindingrijke initiatieven op
het gebied van onderwijs, metamodernistische kunst en coöperatieve
ecologische netwerken.
<br />
<br />
Nu de homo digitalis in opkomst is en de verregaande
technologisering van de mens een onomkeerbaar feit, is het zaak onze
aandacht op het menselijke van de mens te blijven richten. Wat doet de
mens van de machine verschillen?
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Het antwoord is: creativiteit, empathie en het vermogen opnieuw te beginnen.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-36482896320236565882014-07-01T01:29:00.001-07:002014-07-01T01:29:06.027-07:00Rhetorical TricksOld Rhetorical Tricks « Commentary Magazine<br />http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/12/26/e-j-dionne-rhetorical-tricks/ <br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-17359939773524621372014-07-01T01:27:00.001-07:002014-07-01T01:27:40.743-07:00Speechwright“Speechwright: An Insider’s Take on Political Rhetoric,” by William F. Gavin - The Washington Post<br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/speechwright-an-insiders-take-on-political-rhetoric-by-william-f-gavin/2011/11/11/gIQA8mdpDP_story.html Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-43132347501384065212014-07-01T01:18:00.001-07:002014-07-01T01:18:04.841-07:00Rhetoric: naked bodyRowman.com: 9780739167090 - Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body<br />https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739167090 <br /><br />Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, examines the rhetorical power of the unclothed body as it relates to protest and political action. This study explores what the disrobed body communicates, and how others are invited to make sense of this display. The actions examined range from grassroots protests to those of professionalized social movement organizations. Specifically, Lunceford examines PETA and the use of chained women and the Running of the Nudes; lactivists, or women engaging in public breastfeeding as protest action in both online and physical space; the World Naked Bike Ride’s worldwide protest against oil dependency and attempt to raise awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists; and a contest held on College Humor that invited women to write their preferred presidential candidate on their exposed breasts and send the picture to them to post on the site. Although these actions may seem to have little in common beyond their use of body exposure, they all share the notions that something can happen when you take your clothes off and that the act of disrobing can have social and political consequences. Moreover, these groups illustrate the often paradoxical views of the exposed body—by both the participants and the observers—and how such bodies operate in the public sphere. Even when the voice is silent, the body still speaks; Naked Politics considers what is being said. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-1781605386619640692014-07-01T01:15:00.001-07:002014-07-01T01:15:35.597-07:00Rhetoric ComicsClass reads between the lines of comics | Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas<br />http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20120630-class-reads-between-the-lines-of-comics.eceUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-87174201406105796662014-07-01T01:13:00.001-07:002014-07-01T01:13:59.599-07:00Rhetoric: EducationPolitical Rhetoric (3): "Education reform?" STOP IT! Privatization or union-busting, please!<br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/30/1096862/-Political-Rhetoric-3-Education-reform-STOP-IT-Privatization-or-union-busting-please# Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-91461238629998683482008-11-15T06:29:00.000-08:002008-11-15T06:34:43.523-08:00Moral integrityNovember 15, 2008<br />Credo: The moral integrity that makes for a powerful speech<br /><br />Geoffrey Rowell<br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5158420.ece">TimesOnline</a>. Novemeber 15, 2008.<br /><br />One of the many striking things in the election of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States is the power of his language. His gifts of oratory and rhetoric are palpable, rooted in ancient and classical means of communication, in which rhythm, alliteration and assonance all have their part to play. In his powerful repetition of questions and phrases, challenging and cumulative sentences end with some simple affirmation — “Yes, we can.”<br /><br />Aristotle famously spoke of three aspects of arguments that convince — logos, pathos and ethos. The first is centred on logical reasoning, the second on emotional appeal, and the third has at its heart an ethical appeal, convincing by the character of the speaker or author. When there is a mismatch or a disjunction between powerful words spoken and the character of the speaker, then the accusation of hypocrisy is quick to be made. Oratory and rhetoric to be powerful and convincing need to be grounded in a life that is consonant with the ideals proclaimed. Words without moral commitment will never suffice. It is not merely Obama’s words that have swayed Americans and moved so many elsewhere, it is the sense that words and character match. Both politicians and preachers are judged by their integrity, the coherence of life and rhetoric.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-45178411346803321452008-04-06T09:10:00.001-07:002008-04-06T09:10:48.366-07:00Obama Effect<pre wrap="">Call for Papers: The Obama Effect<br /><br /><blockquote> October 23-25, 2008, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<br /><br /> Since he stepped into the national political spotlight at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has challenged conventional wisdom about race, politics, media, and generation. In this historic election year, it is imperative for scholars and professionals in a wide variety of disciplines to reflect upon the potential effects of Mr. Obama on: American and global public opinion; party politics; voter participation; media representations; international relations; religious discourses; and constructions of racial, sexual, and gender identities.<br /><br /> This conference invites papers from scholars and professionals working from different perspectives on the phenomenon of Senator Obama’s political career. Our goal is to create a conference that will showcase various and interdisciplinary approaches to the “Obama Effect” to provide participants with a multi-faceted view of the past year’s campaign and its potential effects on a wide range of social arenas.</blockquote></pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-44403048550753556462008-04-03T11:44:00.001-07:002008-04-03T11:44:48.121-07:00Function vs RhetoricFunction v. Rhetoric<br />Peter Campbell<br /><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n07/camp01a.html">LRB</a><br /> <div class="booklist"><ul><li><em>Architect and Engineer</em> by <span class="darklink"><a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/sain01">Andrew Saint</a></span></li></ul></div><blockquote> It is difficult to work out who gets the credit for a building – so many people are involved, from owners, contractors and governments to bricklayers and roofers – but it is particularly hard to decide what is due to the architect and what to the engineer. Andrew Saint, in his new book, sees them as sibling rivals, and in tracing how their relations have changed over time, looks for answers to three questions. Was there a time when the roles of architect and engineer were indistinguishable? If so, how and why did they separate? And, finally, have they now been reconciled?</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-32298887534274066822008-03-28T06:22:00.000-07:002008-03-28T06:24:27.674-07:00Burke Dramatism and Obama<a href="http://caerglas.livejournal.com/67277.html">caerglas</a>: Looking for feedback on Obama. Also: my take on his Rhetoric.<br /><br /><blockquote><br />Obama can talk, he's great. His Ethos and Pathos are strong. He sounds very sincere and caring, and what he says is often what I've felt has needed to be said, and is something I feel I can get behind. He's a modern day Cicero--and that guy was a jerk, an autocrat who made the people feel very good and pleased with themselves for doing what he wanted them to do. Or he's a modern day Saruman, to be a nerd--his logic, his policies weren't good at all, but he sounded really wise while saying it and everyone wanted to agree with it as it sounded great the way he said it.<br /><br />Obama's Rhetorical style in this speech gives me pause--it gives me great pause, really. It's big on hierarchies and centralizing power into his hands. In brief: it's pretty big with Kenneth Burke's (I think) Dramaticism. That's a style that's great on Ethos and Pathos. It's a style that encourages the audience to identify with the speaker, to identify themselves (and the speaker) with his description of the current state of affairs. This description must paint the current state of affairs as flawed and troubled--but the speaker knows a way to improve the current problems and transcend the current state of affairs into an improved situation, while at the same time the speaker and the audience transcend from their current state and into an improved state--not just because they've identified with the current situation, and that situation has improved--but also through the audience's allegiance with the speaker.<br /><br />Perhaps this is necessary for getting groups of people together... but it's dangerous as it throws a lot of power into the hands of the 'leader.' It's also dangerous as it causes centralization of power and 'unification' among the followers. Dramatism requires hierarchies--'you must transcend the troubled times by following me as the leader; through following me, who is one of you, we all will transcend into a better state.' And that's what's up with my concern on trusting Obama. Such charisma is not necessarily to be lauded in a leader we cannot predict, and I cannot predict him. Aside from the Rhetorical clues in his style, Obama explicitly called the present as a time for "unity," or unification. He's very much against divisive speech here.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-950552381877305932008-03-24T03:14:00.000-07:002008-03-24T03:18:24.447-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Over de retoriek van de oorlog: ‘Hollywood regisseert mee de oorlog van George W. Bush’. <a href="http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/990/Buitenland/article/detail/212489/2008/03/19/Hollywood-regisseert-mee-de-oorlog-van-George-W-Bush.dhtml">De Morgen</a> 19.3.2008.<o:p></o:p><br /><br /><blockquote>Vandaag vijf jaar na het begin van de oorlog in Irak proberen voormalige Hollywoodmedewerkers vanuit het Witte Huis het conflict in de media nog steeds zo heroïsch mogelijk te verkopen. Op de wijze van 'artificial reality imagineers' die de optredens van VS-president George W. Bush mee regisseren.</blockquote>(...)<br /><br /></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"> In 'De verkoop van een oorlog' toonde het Nederlandse VPRO-programma <a href="http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/39309198/">Tegenlicht </a>maandag met dit voorbeeld aan hoe het Witte Huis de beeldvorming over de Irakoorlog manipuleerde met behulp van 'artificial reality imagineers', communicatie-experts die naast de gewone werkelijkheid een gemedialiseerde - en politieke - realiteit bouwen. Ze doen dat op de wijze van Scott Sforza, die, tot zijn vertrek uit het Witte Huis in de zomer van 2007 , de zichtbare optredens van Bush regisseerde.<br /><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /><!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:12;color:#000000;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-21602571176332971752008-03-24T03:00:00.000-07:002008-03-24T03:02:23.696-07:00Visual Rhetoric<p class="MsoNormal">Een interessante vraag over de relatie tussen retoriek en visuele geletterdheid:<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Reading Response « Rhetoric and Technology - <a href="http://rhetech.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/reading-response/">ENC 6421</a><br /><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">Prompt 2: Drawing on at least two of the readings, explain what is rhetorical about the visual turn.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> In the introductory chapter of The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle defines rhetoric as “the technique of discovering the persuasive aspects of any given subject-matter.” Rhetoric, as Aristotle defines it, could be applied to nearly any medium, any object, anything that communicates a meaning or attempts to persuade a viewer, reader, hearer, or observer. So what is. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">(…)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> The visual turn is rhetorical in its very nature – visual elements communicate and persuade, whether intentionally or not.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-79955576151323738552008-03-23T13:10:00.000-07:002008-03-23T13:11:43.439-07:00Presidential Rhetoric<a href="http://harvardpress.typepad.com/off_the_page/2008/03/when-president.html">Off the Page</a>: The Harvard Press Author Forum: Presidential rhetoric in historical perspective<br /><br /><br /> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 153);">PARTICIPATING AUTHOR: BRYAN GARSTEN </span></strong></p> <p><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Bryan Garsten is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, and author of <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GARSAV.html">Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment</a></em>. </span></strong></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-47689626901687009932008-03-22T15:50:00.000-07:002008-03-22T15:51:25.252-07:00R for Rhetoric<a href="http://herscarletletters.blogspot.com/2008/03/r-is-for-rhetoric.html">Her Scarlet Letters</a>: R is for Rhetoric<br /><br /> R is for Rhetoric I once pursued a masters degree in political rhetoric. I investigated speeches and <blockquote>political discourse, every day, all day, for two years.<br /><br />And I STILL can't tell you why a candidate can adjust the mental connection with an audience in an instant - or why an audience is moved to act, as opposed to just react.</blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-85569376267919585752008-03-22T15:48:00.000-07:002008-03-22T15:49:01.558-07:00Rhetoriek and MemoryRhetoric and Memory. Een <a href="http://memoryrhetor.blogspot.com/2008/03/on-hiatus.html">blog </a>ove retoriek:<br /><br /><div id="header-wrapper"> <div class="header section" id="header"><div class="widget Header" id="Header1"> <div id="header-inner"> <div class="descriptionwrapper"> <p class="description"><span><blockquote>This blog has been created in an effort to trace the place and space of Memory in the History of Rhetoric and other domains such as pop culture, current media, music, film and my personal vida.</blockquote></span></p> </div> </div> </div></div> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-43421020607934843332008-03-22T15:43:00.001-07:002008-03-24T03:19:06.472-07:00Retoriek-propaganda<span style="font-size:100%;">Een bedenking over het verschil tussen retoriek en propaganda/<br />Separating propaganda from rhetoric - a three-point guide « <a href="http://wordwhirl.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/separating-propaganda-from-rhetoric-a-three-point-guide/">World of words</a><br /><br /></span><blockquote><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" >Someone asked me the other day what the difference between rhetoric and propaganda is. It’s a good question: linguistically speaking, there is little to separate the two, although they are distinct forms of persuasion. </span> <p><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" ></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" >It would be easy to trot out an answer along the lines of the old “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”, ie that it all depends on your cultural/political position – after all, no text or speech is free from cultural influence, and a speech that one group sees as rhetoric may be seen as propaganda by groups with different cultural standpoints. <span> </span></span></p> <p><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" ><span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" ><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Politics-Propaganda-Weapons-Mass-Seduction/dp/0719068533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206119987&sr=8-1" title="Politcs and propaganda - weapons of mass seduction">O’Shaughnessy </a>acknowledges the “very fine line between political oratory and propaganda” (p19) and Bryant (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Propaganda-Persuasion-Garth-S-Jowett/dp/1412908981/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206120024&sr=1-1" title="Propaganda and persuasion">Jowett & O’Donell</a>, p43) notes that propaganda’s techniques are “rhetorical techniques gone wrong”.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:'Georgia','serif';font-size:100%;" > </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-34806545734660804722008-03-22T15:39:00.000-07:002008-03-22T15:40:17.658-07:00Rhetoric or Revolution?<h4><span style="font-weight: normal;">Russell Goldman, ‘Rhetoric or Revolution? Obama Rev's Fiery Language’. </span><strong><span style="">March 21,</span></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2008. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4490869">ABC News</a>. </span></strong></h4> <p>Naar aanleiding van de klacht over de racistische taal van de predikant uit de kerk waar Obama geregeld aanwezig is, volgde een debat over de retoriek van dergelijke preken. </p> <p></p><blockquote>But for thousands of parishioners who fill the pews of America's black churches, the Illinois senator did not need to contextualize Wright's message of black nationalism and apocalyptic prophecy -- they hear it every Sunday.</blockquote> <p></p> <p>De preek wordt geplaatst binnen een retoirsche traditie: <o:p></o:p></p> <p></p><blockquote><p>But beyond black liberation theology, scholars and his fellow ministers put Wright in an even older tradition, in which black ministers, like the biblical prophets, used their pulpits to chide the nation into moral action. </p> <p><span style=""> </span>(…)<o:p></o:p></p> <p>It is all about context, say Wright's supporters, including Obama. Parishioners raised in the church understand that preaching is loud, physical and theatrical. <o:p></o:p></p> <p>"There is a performative style that accompanies black preaching," Erskine said. "You have to act it -- take the way he was fanning himself. How you say things is more important than what you say. There is a power in words and the way they are expressed." <o:p></o:p></p> <p>If whites are surprised by the rhetoric, it is only because they are not familiar with the culture of the black church, Obama said in his speech Tuesday in Philadelphia. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-81073474205653023462008-03-20T05:20:00.001-07:002008-03-20T05:21:27.288-07:00Rhetoric of LoveLiefde & Retoriek. Interessante teksten:<br /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/%7Epasupathi/309k04/texts.html">RHE 309K</a>, The Rhetoric of Love and Seduction Course Homepage Spring 2004<br /><br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-32854863676008914462008-03-20T04:52:00.000-07:002008-03-20T04:54:41.379-07:00Why Rhetoric?<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: windowtext;">Neem, Johann N. (2008), ‘<span style="">Obama's critics overlook an important point: Ideas matter. The <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2004290744&zsection_id=268883724&slug=neem19&date=20080319">Seattle Times</a>. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">Een reflectie over de waarde van retoriek: daden versus woorden. <o:p></o:p>Verwijten van de kanidaten: John McCain stelt dat retoriek geen vervanging is voor harde politiek, Hillary Clinton contrasteert de retoriek met vroegere beloftes. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">Neem (2008) constateert: “What all these criticisms ignore, however, is that ideas matter”. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;"><blockquote>Ideas matter. Rhetoric is not just rhetoric. Words define for us — political elites and ordinary voters — what problems we are facing and what kinds of solutions we have for them.</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">Johann Neem gebruikt de metafoor van de “lens”: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">Parties must have platforms that inspire voters. The test for any candidate is how well he or she crafts the lens voters wear to make sense of the world. Obama's challenge — the Democrats' challenge — is to do for his party what Reagan did for the Republicans.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">But ideas, once accepted, create a new context.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;">If Obama helps the Democratic Party find focus, his followers will expect him to make good on his promises. Ideas are not effervescent. A successful idea changes how we think and what we expect; it becomes the barometer by which we then assess our leaders.</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-74064384795047132942008-03-06T02:51:00.000-08:002008-03-06T02:52:40.399-08:00Scientific ProseA discursive examination of scientific prose by <a href="http://www.mrrena.com/misc/intertextual.shtml">Eric Knickerbocker</a><br /><br /><blockquote>This essay is designed to argue that, no matter how cleverly disguised behind technical terms any given piece of scientific writing may be, it reflects its own form of rhetoric: rehashing, reinterpreting, and reprocessing the claims made from previous scientists in an effort to cajole and persuade.<br /></blockquote>Kris Ruttenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16045410709788056978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-59120713854660932212008-03-05T05:57:00.001-08:002008-03-05T05:57:20.647-08:00Blogs<a href="http://rhetoric.eserver.org/blogs/">Weblogs </a>about rhetoric, rhetoricians, and the teaching of communication skills.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-26274902526047151472008-03-05T05:55:00.000-08:002008-03-05T05:56:57.175-08:00Rhetoric Website<a href="http://rhetoric.eserver.org/">Rhetoric</a><br />This website is intended to list a variety of resources useful to rhetoricians. <p>While many rhetoric and composition pages on the Web are written in conjunction with writing centers or specialize in computer-mediated communication, this page also has links to works of classical rhetoric, articles on literacy and education, comprehensive bibliographies in the field and a few miscellaneous but useful things--how to suscribe to some highly-trafficked mailing lists and links to glossaries of rhetorical terms, for example.</p> <p>If you have any suggestions or documents you think should be added, please use the "join" option below to join one of our editorial teams; we're particularly interested in getting more contemporary writing about rhetoric online.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-25561921201443744932008-03-04T08:18:00.000-08:002008-03-04T08:19:39.428-08:00Rhetoric Obama<p class="MsoNormal">How to Inspire People Like Obama Does<br />by Carmine Gallo<br /><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2008/sb2008033_156351.htm">BusinessWeek</a></p>Public speaking skills are critical to the success of every leader. Here are four techniques you can borrow from the Presidential candidate <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>Over the past several years, I have been interviewing, observing, and writing about business, academic, and political leaders who have the ability to influence their audience—leaders who fire up the rest of us. Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is one of them. For a look at what makes Obama's public speaking skills so effective, I outline four techniques he's mastered and explain ways to use them in your own repertoire. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">1. Parallel structure We can thank the ancient Greeks for this rhetorical tool—they called it "anaphora." It simply means repeating the same word or expression at the beginning of successive sentences or phrases (…)</p> <p class="MsoNormal">2. Alliteration. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">3. Rich Imagery Persuasive speakers have long understood the power of imagery to stir emotions—the creation of mental pictures through the words. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Exude Confident Body Language</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Pay attention to <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/apr2007/ca20070430_088358.htm">what your body is saying</a> (BusinessWeek.com, 4/30/07). Communicate confidence, competence, and control. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Use Dynamic Vocal Delivery</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A monotonous speaking style lulls the listener to sleep, regardless of the power of the content. Obama <a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/05/vocalization/index_01.htm">knows how to enhance</a> (BusinessWeek.com, 5/16/06) his delivery. Consider these three aspects of his delivery. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Zie <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/mar2008/sb2008033_156351.htm">verder</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-77671199439703034032008-03-01T04:19:00.001-08:002008-03-01T04:19:56.195-08:00Rhetoric Pop Music<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://joelhartse.googlepages.com/finalproject">ROCKWRITE </a> pop music as a site for rhetoric and inquiry<br /></span></b></p> <p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">WHY ROCKWRITE? </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o p=""></o></span></p> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Usually people use this term, "rockwrite," to talk about writing about rock -- rock criticism, like Lester Bangs, Richard Meltzer, Paul Williams -- some of the people who started the contemporary rock criticism movement. But it also describes the <i>spirit</i> of the writing they did, writing that was like rock, that rocked, even when it was not <i>about</i> rock. Rockwrite combines the two verbs into a new verb that can do twice as much.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8604789726615305270.post-75823199426406988502008-02-29T08:35:00.000-08:002008-02-29T08:44:09.172-08:00Against Rhetoric?<p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In de <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803229.html">Washington Post</a> schreef Michael Gerson een column 'Words Aren't Cheap' over de waarde retoriek. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>In een Time Blog wordt het debat gevoerd over retoriek. Is Obama te welbespraakt? Is retoriek een vorm van zwakte? Of zelfs iets verwerpelijks? </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Rhetoric A Weakness? - Real Clear Politics - Elections 2008 - <a href="http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/02/rhetoric_a_weakness.html">TIME </a><br />Posted by KYLE TRYGSTAD </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Enkele ideeën:<br /><o:p></o:p>Former Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post that Clinton and McCain should not use Obama's speaking acumen in attacks against him. History has shown that vocal eloquence is no weakness, and "rhetoric" was not always a four-letter word</p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">"Civil rights leaders possessed few weapons but eloquence -- and their words hardly came cheap. Every president eventually needs the tools of rhetoric, to stiffen national resolve in difficult times or to honor the dead unfairly taken. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">It is not a failure for Obama to understand and exercise this element of leadership; it is an advantage. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Some Obama critics go even further, accusing him of inducing a "creepy," "cultish" "euphoria." A candidate delivers a good stump speech, adds a dose of personal magnetism and suddenly he is a sorcerer, practicing the dark arts of demagoguery.<br /><br />But Obamamania is pretty mild stuff compared with our rhetorical history."</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:12;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0