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 …

Teletheory – Ulmer – Notes
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 …

Get Out – Review
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 …

Heuretics – Ulmer – Notes
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, …

Groundhog Day Review
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. …

Rhetoric in Do the Right Thing
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 …
On Christian Doctrine – Notes
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 …

The Sophists
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 …
Notes -Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception
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. …
Notes – Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato’s Sophist
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. ” …