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Invention and the Internet Continued
Can random entertaining internet programs serve as sources for rhetorical invention? Perhaps. One of the better examples is Nietzschean Family Circus which pairs a random Nietzsche quote with…
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New Ammunition for the Canon of Invention
Surfing around the blogs on Sunday morning has replaced my previous ritual of watching BBC News (and a bit of the local news) before switching over to CBS…
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Love that Dirty Water
Having lunch the other day reminded me of an internal conference I went to at another University where I saw a paper on rhetoric about John Locke. The…
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Election Metaphor
I am interested in watching the primaries in the same way a prisoner sentence to life without parole would be interested in watching how the prison guards change…
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Performance Pedagogy
I am disturbed by the trend at some Universities to reduce the amount of performance classes in favor of theory or method classes. I’ve been in places where…
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Debate Tournaments
Sitting in the hallway chatting with folks at this great tournament. I have a few ideas to jot down. First, could we structure univeristy classes in this same…
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