m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

I like the following definition of rhetoric. I couldn’t find it Monday afternoon during class discussion when I wanted it, but here it is.
“Rhetoric, in the most general sense, is the energy inherent in emotion and thought, transmitted through a system of signs, including language, to others to influence their decisions or actions” (7).
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Just some loose ideas here as I think more about the rhetoric of affect:
Burke’s Unending Conversation Metaphor
Burke, Kenneth. The Philosophy of Literary Form. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941.
This unending conversation is a great metaphor for what happens when we blog. Of course, I’m not the first one to notice this idea.
I read something [...]

Reading Donna’s post this morning about managerial and belletristic rhetoric reminded me of Matt Barton’s article, The Fine Art of Computer Programming (via techrhet).
It occurs to me that Barton is advocating a belletristic approach to programming. In the article, Barton calls for an appreciation of the aestetics of computer code, for it to be [...]

Sacha posts book notes about the book Life Matters. It’s an example of how affective labor is often unappreciated: She says,
What I really like about this book is that Rebecca’s stories show the value of homemaking and how you can learn important lessons from that underappreciated kind of work. I rarely find women’s [...]

cross-posted to 8040
In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, specifically, chapter 11, Ideology and Affective Epidemics, Lawrence Grossberg describes how new conservatives have politicized place and everyday life, and also how they have depoliticized politics (281). I was stuck (am still stuck?) on how conservatives might have depoliticized politics and politicized place. [...]

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I’m reading a paper copy of Hardt’s, Affective Labor, and one of the passages that stuck out at me was on page 94-5, where he says, “Today, as general social knowledge becomes ever more a direct force of production, we increasingly think like computers, and the interactive model of communication technologies becomes [...]

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This from, The Craft of Research, by Booth, Colomb, and Williams.
At the end of the talk, one woman reported that she had been a professor of anthropology whose published work had been praised for the clarity and force of her writing. Then she switched careers and went to law school. She said that [...]

A few days ago, I wrote a post about revisions that I was doing.
Tonight I’m reading How Writing Works: Imposing Organizational Structure within the Writing Process, by Gloria Houston, and she says, “This text has undergone more than eighty revisions to reach the state in which you are reading it” (38). Eighty. [...]

In Thought Contagion by Aaron Lynch, he states, “Anyone who feels that he or she is ‘losing’ could become more inclined to shift away from long-held beliefs” (32). This statement by Lynch makes me wonder if progressives were to reframe issues and put out the message what “hard times” these are and then show [...]