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New Podcast Episode: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Post-Structuralism
Dr. Lee Pierce, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at SUNY Geneseo joins Dr. Dan the Renaissance Man and Steve for a discussion on the relationship of post-structuralism to rhetoric, graduate school pedagogy, and whether or not it matters if you have read everything Derrida ever wrote. Have a listen here!
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That’s Not Relevant
Relevance is a part of argumentation, not a rule or container that surrounds or determines what kinds of arguments are permitted. It’s not a referee and it’s not a boundary. Consider relevance an ask, or an indicator, that you are not doing a very good job of sharing your view with your audience/interlocutor. They are…
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Kenneth Burke’s Terministic Screens – A Conversation
https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/Kenneth-Burkes-Terministic-Screens-eten1q Here’s the latest episode of my podcast, In The Bin, where we discuss Kenneth Burke’s idea of “terministic screens.” Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below or you can record a comment or question and send it to us through the Anchor website.
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Discussing Kenneth Burke’s Essay “The Virtues and Limitations of Debunking”
https://anchor.fm/inthebin/episodes/Kenneth-Burkes-The-Virtues-and-Limitations-of-Debunking-et26ah This essay is one of my absolute favorites to teach in argumentation. My friend Dan and I take it on in an hour long conversation on the latest podcast. Every year the students complain about this essay mostly because of Burke’s eccentric writing style. I’ve tried different ways of teaching it over the years,…
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What is the Future of Speech, Oratory, and Rhetoric?
Delighted to participate in the 2021 World Speech Day at the invitation of Simon Gibson who founded World Speech Day to celebrate and educate everyone on the power of oratory. On this panel we all consider the question of what the future of speech looks like for humanity after the global pandemic experience we’ve all…
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New In the Bin Podcast on the Teaching of Rhetoric and the Fallacies
You can also listen to this episode and others at Anchor.fm/inthebin where we host the show. At that site you can drop us a voice note or message as well. What other topics in speech, presentation, oratory, argumentation, or debate would you like to hear about? We are open to all ideas.
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That Semi-Annual Introduction to Rhetoric Talk
By now regular visitors to the blog should be aware of my twice a year sojourn to Cornell University to introduce a fairly good number of Cornell students to the art of rhetoric. Of course since they are alive human beings in their 20s who are in college they have been practicing rhetoric for quite…
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In the Bin Visits France in this New Episode
Another new episode of In the Bin is now ready for your ears. Listen here or you can choose to listen through the podcast provider of your choice. The series is everywhere. at Anchor.fm you can leave us a voice message. We’d love to hear from you and might even play it on a future…
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There are Topics Not Worth Debating. How Do We Know?
Got a great question along with a great article from a friend last month, now I’m finally getting to it. The simple response is, yes of course! But the more complex response is to examine how we should determine what debates are not worth having, and the criteria for this choice should be based not…
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A First Resolution for 2021, emphasis on “resolution.”
If I have one thing that I want to establish over the course of next year is the elimination of the phrase “public debate.” I used this term a lot without understanding the full implications of the insidious nature of this phrase. It’s used by those who are deeply involved in the world of tournament-contest…
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