What I have described as essential to an ambient rhetoric—its embodied and embedded or situated character, its dispersal across things that themselves have gradations of agency, and its dynamic emergence within an environment that occasions certain effects—suggests that intent is only one element in a large array of things, feelings, peoples, and forces all complexly … [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…]
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…]
The homoerotics of the Phaedrus Page duBois “Plato’s Phaedrus, as a text of high seduction, aimed at drawing the reader toward erotic life and therefore toward philosophy, plays with the edges of the Greek definitions of male and female to liberate the reader to a paradoxical sense of the fluidity of boundaries,” (p 9) … [Read more…]
The motives of eloquence: literary rhetoric in the renaissance The motives of eloquence: literary rhetoric in the Renaissance Richard A. Lanham 1976 New Haven and London: Yale University Press The verbal style in the West: proceeded on the basis of a few simple premises: Every man possesses a central self; combine into a … [Read more…]