Gonzo Rhetoric vs. Cool Rhetoric
If you don’t mind, and since you’re forced to read this, I’m sure you might, I’d like to take this
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Go Gonzo Journal
Fake news with a spin of Truth
Books
Gonzo Books
Don’t Be a Square: The Cinematic Rhetoric of Cool
In last week’s class, Doug mentioned how Pulp Fiction serves as an example of non-linear narrative, and now that I’ve been introduced
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Comics are Box Office Gold
My generation has had the opportunity to enjoy the lucrative eruption of the comic book movie, and there’s good reason
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Culture Sucked Through the Lens
Everything this week seemed to be written specifically for me. I enjoyed reading things that are so pertinent to culture
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The Floydian Text
“It is music which can invade and rule the human psyche with a penetrative strength comparable, it may be, only
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The Blog: A Social Path to Cumulative Creative Discovery
Now that we’re investigating the process of “creative discovery,” I want to use this blog to try to reacquire my
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All Art is Autobiographical, especially New Media
For as long as I can remember, I have thought all art to be autobiographical. Though all writing is not
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Kenneth Burke’s Man a Thing of Perfection
I admire Kenneth Burke’s ability to make science sound so frivolous. Chapter Three of his Language as Symbolic Action about terministic screens
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Retain Some Insanity for Your Sanity’s Sake
If, as Alan Gross says in “Rhetorical Analysis,” “Rhetorically, the creation of knowledge is a task beginning with self-persuasion and
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The New University
I’ve always been interested in the future of University curriculum mostly because I’ve been disappointed with what our current University
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Love and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“The stream of consciousness moves faster now, and is broader, but it seems to run less deep” (Pirsig, 9). This
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