Alternative Rhetorics

English 604 Spring 2012 TH 6:00-8:30 Adorjan 341 Nathaniel A. Rivers nrivers1@slu.edu @altrhet

PHASE ONE: RHETORICS CONTESTED ROOTS

Week 1
Jan. 19

Introduction
Course Introduction Course Concepts Ingold, Tim. Who Studies Humanity.

Week 2

Classical Texts

Readings Under Discussion [148]

Plato. Gorgias. [71] Gorgias. Encomium of Helen. [5] Gorgias. On Not-Being. [6] Anonymous. Dissoi Logoi. [9] Isocrates. Against the Sophists and a selection from Antidosis. [13] Aristotle. Selections from Rhetoric. [43] Ingold, Tim. General Introduction, The Perception of the Environment. [6] Optional: General Introduction and Classical Rhetoric Introduction, The Rhetorical Tradition. [38]

Jan. 26

Week 3

(Re)Readings

Readings Under Discussion [166]

Latour, Bruno. Selections from Pandoras Hope. [50] Jarratt, Susan C. Selections from Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. [46] Lanham, Richard. The Q Question. [22] White, Eric Charles. Selection from Kaironomia. [33] Ingold, Tim. Culture, Perception and Cognition, The Perception of the Environment. [15]

Feb. 2

Week 4

Classical Schisms

Readings Under Discussion [117]

Auden, W.H. Unpredictable But Providential. [2] Burke, Kenneth. (Nonsymbolic) Motion/(Symbolic)Action. [31] Heraclitus of Ephesus. Fragments. [18] Kelley, Donald R. selections from The Human Measure: Social Thought in the Western Legal Tradition. [23] Welch, Kathleen Ethel. Keywords from Classical Rhetoric: The Example of Physis. [13] Lovejoy, Arthur O. The Meaning of in the Greek Physiologers. [16] Ingold, Tim. Culture, Nature, Environment, The Perception of the Environment. [14] Optional: Woodbridge, Frederick J.E. The Dominant Conception of the Earliest Greek Philosophy. [17]

Feb. 9

Paper Day #1

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PHASE TWO: RHETORICS SITUATIONS

Week 5 Evolution of Situation 1
Feb.16

Readings Under Discussion [120]

Vatz, Richard E. The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation. [9] Bitzer, Lloyd F. The Rhetorical Situation. [15] Consigny, Scott. Rhetoric and Its Situations. [13] Biesecker, Barbara A. Rethinking the Rhetorical Situation from Within the Thematic of Diffrence. [22] Edbauer Rice, Jenny. Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies. [22] Rickert, Thomas. In the House of Doing: Rhetoric and the Kairos of Ambience. [28] Ingold, Tim. Against Space: Place, Movement, Knowledge, Being Alive. [11] Optional: Rickert, Thomas. Invention in the Wild: On Locating Kairos in Space-Time. [11]

Week 6

Evolution of Situation 2

Readings Under Discussion [90]

Burke, Kenneth. Selection from A Grammar of Motives. [26] Fredal, James. Selection from Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes. [27] Marback, Richard. Detroit and the Closed Fist: Toward a Theory of Material Rhetoric. [20] Ingold, Tim. Building, Dwelling, Living, The Perception of the Environment. [17]

Feb. 23

Week 7

A Change in Scenery

Readings Under Discussion [112]

Porter, James E. et al. Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change. [34] Rivers, Nathaniel A. Some Assembly Required: The Latourian Collective and the Banal Work of Technical and Professional Communication. [18] Sunstein, Case and Richard Thaler. Selections from Nudge. [20] Marback, Richard. Unclenching the Fist: Embodying Rhetoric and Giving Objects Their Due. [20] Ingold, Tim. The Temporality of the Landscape, The Perception of the Environment. [20]

March 1

Paper Day #2

PHASE THREE: RHETORICS BODIES

Week 8 Rhetorical Figures

Readings Under Discussion [121]

Ballif, Michelle Writing the Third-Sophistic: Periphrasis on an [In]Tense Rhetoric. [22] Brooke, Collin Gifford. Forgetting to be (Post)Human. [12] Corder, Jim W. Argument as Emergence, Rhetoric as Love. [17] Covino, William A. Grammars of Transgression. [19] Davis, Diane. Identification: Burke and Freud on Who You Are. [25] Muckelbauer, John and Debra Hawhee. Posthuman Rhetoric. [7] Ingold, Tim. People Like Us: The Concept of the Anatomically Modern Human, The Perception of the Environment. [19]

March 8

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Week 9
March 15 Spring Break

Week 10
March 22 CCCC

Week 11

Rhetorical Agencies

Readings Under Discussion [189]

Miller, Carolyn. What Can Automation Tell Us About Agency. [20] Rivers, Nathaniel and Maarten Derksen. Ecologies of Deception: Psychology, Rhetoric and Agency [32] Lundberg, Christian and Joshua Gunn. Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications? Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanist Subject, or, Continuing the ARS Conversation. [23] Herndl, Carl and Adela Licona. Shifting Agency: Agency, Kairos, and the Possibilities of Social Action. [20] Geisler, Cheryl. How Ought We to Understand the Concept of Rhetorical Agency? Report from the ARS. [8] Geisler, Cheryl. Teaching the Post-Modern Rhetor: Continuing the Conversation on Rhetorical Agency. [6] Cooper, Marilyn. Rhetorical Agency as Emergent and Enacted. [29] Cooper, Marilyn. Being Linked in the Matrix: Biology, Technology, and Writing. [17] Barnett, Scot. Toward an Object-Oriented Rhetoric. [8] Bennett, Jane. The Force of Things: Steps Toward an Ecology of Matter. [26]

March 29

Week 12

Motivated Rhetorics

Readings Under Discussion [91]

Burke, Kenneth. Selection from Attitudes Toward History. [31] Burke, Kenneth. Selection from A Rhetoric of Motives. [16] Burke, Kenneth. Selection from Language as Symbolic Action. [8] Hawhee, Debra. Burke on Drugs. [24] Hawhee, Debra. Selection from Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language [12]

April 5

Easter Break

Week 13

Moi?

Readings Under Discussion [110]

Clark, Andy. Preface, Groundings, and Minds and Markets, (Ch. 9) from Being There. [14] Clark, Andy. Language: The Ultimate Artifact, (BT Ch.10). [14] Clark, Andy. Introduction and Plastic Brains, Hybrid Minds, (Ch. 3) from Natural-Born Cyborgs. [23] Clark, Andy. What Are We? (NBC Ch. 5) from. [15] Clark, Andy. Minds, Brains, and Tuna: A Summary in Brine, (BT Ch. 11) and Epilogue: A Brain Speaks. [9] Clark, Andy. Bad Borgs (NBC Ch. 7) and Post-Human, Moi? (NBC Ch. 8) and Notes. [27] Ingold, Tim. Society, Nature and the Concept of Technology, The Perception of the Environment. [11]

April 12

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Week 14

The Nurture of Things

Readings Under Discussion [79]

Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela. Social Phenomena, (Chapter 8) from The Tree of Knowledge. [13] Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela. Linguistic Domains and Human Consciousness, (Chapter 9) from The Tree of Knowledge. [16] Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela. The Tree of Knowledge, (Chapter 20) from The Tree of Knowledge. [8] Rose, Nikolas. The Politics of Life Itself. [30] Ingold, Tim. Making Things, Growing Plants, Raising Animals and Bringing Up Children, The Perception of the Environment. [12]

April 19

Week 15

The Nurture of Things

Readings Under Discussion [109]

Chambliss, Daniel F. The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers. [18] Derksen, Maarten. Cultivating human nature. [18] Haraway, Donna. Selections from Modest_Witness@Second_Millennium.FemaleMan _Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience. [26] Hayles, N. Katherine. Flesh and Metal [23] Ingold, Tim. Ancestry, Generation, Substance, Memory, Land, The Perception of the Environment. [20]

April 26

Paper Day #3

FINAL PAPER DUE: SUNDAY, MAY 3 @ MIDNIGHT

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