Night of the Living Dead Review By Stacy Cacciatore In Night of the Living Dead (1968), words are not only unpersuasive, but the lack of communication among the living leads to their demise. As Jancovich (1994) points out in Horror, “the zombies outside are responsible for hardly any of the main characters’ deaths’. Most of … [Read more…]
Teletheory by Greg Ulmer By Stacy Cacciatore Questions for Stacy to bring up Technology – why do we always devalue the value new technology brings to society? Memorization –He brings up that this has changed, I wonder, will it go away? If we don’t exercise this muscle, will it atrophy? Will that matter? (pp 19-20) … [Read more…]
Get Out Review By Stacy Cacciatore When analyzing Get Out from a rhetorical hermeneutics perspective, I noticed the objectification of the black male body. For example, in the garden party scene, all of the white people are ogling at his body. One squeezes his bicep while another asks “is it true?” referring to the stereotype that black … [Read more…]
Heuretics – Ulmer Analogy. The method becomes an invention when it relies on analogy and chance (Buchler, 14). If methods tend to be practiced as algorithms, their invention is heuristic (heuretics is a heuristic approach to theory). To help invent the dialectic, Plato relies on “The Manifesto of Surrealism,” and for that matter all of the manifestos of the avant-garde, belong to the tradition of the discourse on method. A comparison of Breton’s manifesto with the various classics of the method reveals that they tend to include a common set of elements, which are representable for mnemonic reference by the acronym CATTt (Ulmer, 1991b). The CATTt includes the following operations: C = Contrast (opposition, inversion, differentiation) A Analogy (figuration, displacement) T = Theory (repetition, literalization) T Target (application, purpose) t = Tale (secondary elaboration, representability) Writing as technology is a memory machine, with each apparatus finding different means to collect, store, and retrieve information outside of any one individual mind (in rituals, habits, libraries, or databases). Part of the contribution of hypermedia as The target for my method is the models of memory developed for it, inasmuch as individuals and societies tend to internalize as forms of reasoning the operations of their tools. The current state of computer interface design, then, may hold some valuable lessons for Derridean heuretics. What is our relationship with technology, language and memory – writing in the margins, taking notes on the computer, blog, evernote… r grammatology, hypermedia is the technological aspect of an ele~tronic apparatus (referring to an i~teractive matrix of technology, institutional practices, and ideological subject formation). My interest is not only in the technology itself but also in the problem of inventing the practices that may institutionalize electronics in terms of schooling. These practices are not medium specific: rather, they entail a revision of the liberal arts trivium (grammar, rhetoric, logic) open to writing on a screen as well_ as on paper. It may be that eventually, the screen will replace the page (and the database replace the library) as the support of all academic work. Used to not allow Google, now – source data, The practice of inventing … [Read more…]
In Groundhog Day, Phil, played by Bill Murry, has the opportunity to perfect his persuasive pitch to convince Rita, played by Andi MacDowell, that they are meant to be together. Burke (1962) states: A useful ironic device is suggested for a courtier wearing a mask. Let him disguise himself as someone of inferior rank, … [Read more…]
In Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, the writer, producer, and director, employs several rhetorical strategies to articulate the primary message in the film, which is that we need to ‘do something’ about race relations in America. The film highlights how American society navigates racial, class and economic issues. Spike Lee uses racial stereotypes to highlight … [Read more…]
On Christian Doctrine By Stacy Cacciatore De Doctrina Christiana was written by the great philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, around the beginning of the fifth century A.D. He wrote it for a variety of reasons, but three predominate: (i) he wanted to convince those who thought they could simply divine … [Read more…]
The Sophists By Stacy Cacciatore The readings this week centered on the exploration of the Sophists and the debate regarding if they existed, if they did exist, what did they stand for, and why it matters. Schiappa and Poulakos engage in a fiery debate on the topic of Sophists and they go back in forth … [Read more…]
Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception Charalabopoulos By Stacy Cacciatore Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xxi, 331. ISBN It is quite likely, as many scholars have suggested, that Plato used performance of his dialogues as a teaching tool in the … [Read more…]
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato’s Sophist INTRODUCTION: BEING AND NON-BEING, TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD IN PLATO’S SOPHIST Notes by Stacy Cacciatore “Ontology is the theory of objects and their ties. ” “It provides criteria for distinguishing different types of objects (concrete and abstract, existent and nonexistent, real and ideal, independent and dependent) and their ties (relations, … [Read more…]