Author: Steve
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Lost Technology
In reading through various meeting minutes and dictated letters from the 1930s in my recent research work, I found this great oddity: Aliens confirmed. Well, aliens by metaphor only. Who is left who can read or write in shorthand? The technology of shorthand I imagine is pretty much lost. This is clearly a…
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To Campus
Woke up today and worked more on my long-term writing project about debating. I woke up with the question: If we are seeing a radical change in the way that people evaluate information, trust experts, consider what a fact is, and all that, why is our solution to just double-down on teaching the fallacies, tests…
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Broadcasting Rhetoric
Still thinking about the time I spent in the media archive at the University of Maryland. They have a lot of documentation – transcripts and recordings and the like – but most exciting is their collection of the technology of broadcasting. They have a remarkably well-preserved inventory of early televisions and old console-style radios. …
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Another Time, D.C.!
Another trip done. And the summer is almost done too. I learned quite a bit on this trip but now what’s ahead is the race to September. I agreed to help run and teach at a debate camp for the first time in a few years here in New York. Not sure what that’s going…
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The Archive
I had the best time this week going to the University of Maryland special collections. I spent about three days there and that was a good amount of time. However I feel like I could just look at old stuff in the archives forever and not get bored. Seems like there’s a lot of it…
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A Very Special Collection
Started my work in the special collections at the University of Maryland this week and I have to say, it’s incredible what I’ve already discovered in these documents. It was well worth the trip. There are a lot of documents missing that would make things a bit clearer, but I’m already sitting at 1000% more…
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Debate Topic(al) invention and iteration
Looking at the college policy debate resolution makes one thing very clear: The national community of debate practitioners in American policy debate have no interest in bringing in audiences for their debates. This is a debate practice that is solely and totally focused on itself. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory…
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I hate everything I am writing right now
I give up. I don’t like anything I’m writing and I just really like reading. I can’t seem to get a paper into any shape that I’m happy about. And it’s mid July now. What happened to the productive summer? I’ve been avoiding blogging because I thought of it as a waste of time and…
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E3 presents the literature of catastrophic apocalypse
E3 is a conference where all the new games for the next year are announced and displayed. Everything looks pretty great from my perspective as a gamer. From my perspective as a rhetorician, something else was presented: a budding literature of human extinction. The new games at E3 all seem to address one begged question…
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Schlossbergese
Everyone is, deep at their core, what they express. Actions speak louder than words. These ideas are very old, and very real, in the way we size up the value of others. Institutions and people are evaluated, positioned, and judged based on expression. What we say, what we communicate, is seen as a direct line…
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