Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now

Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More

Remer – Rhetoric as a Balancing of Ends: Cicero and Machiavelli

Citation: Remer, Gary. “Rhetoric as a Balancing of Ends: Cicero and Machiavelli.” Philosophy & Rhetoric 42.1 (2009): 1-28. Print. Abstract: The author compares and contrasts the role of rhetoric in the political philosophies of Cicero and Niccolo Machiavelli. The moral character of glory and a commitment to the good and beneficial in the politics of Cicero are analyzed. The author suggests that Machiavelli is aware that citizens desire... Read More

Selections from Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory

Quintilian – Selections from Institutes of Oratory Despite existing in the Imperial era, Quintillian’s rhetoric did serve a civic purpose – especially as used in forensic and epideictic oratory. Instruction in rhetoric – for Q. – is the art of speaking “well” – meaning both effectively and virtuously.  This is also known as the “strong” defense of rhetoric wherein truths are defined by the social theatres in which rhetoric is... Read More

CCR601 – Final Project – Richardson

Richardson, Pamela. “Agricultural Ethics, Neurotic Natures and Emotional Encounters: An Application of Actor-Network Theory.” Ethics, Place & Environment 7 3 (2004): 195-201. Print. This paper arises out of a particular tension between the author and the multiple “actants” that constituted the research subjects she interviewed in a trip to Barbados to conduct fieldwork on the relationship between agriculture and... Read More