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Genealogy – 3rd Generation – Hawee – Miller

Posted by justin on September 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Genealogy Project 3rd Generation – 2nd Generation Author: Hawhee Miller, Carolyn. “Opportunity, Opportunism, and Progress: Kairos in the Rhetoric of Technology.” Argumentation 8.1 (1994): 81-96. Print. Executive Summary: Miller claims that kairos serves “as both a powerful theme within technological discourse and as an analytical concept that explains some of the suasory force by which such discourse maintains itself and its position... Read More

Filed under CCR601 · Tagged with 1994, kairos, miller, rhetoric of technology, technological discourses

CCR601 – Genealogy – 2nd – Hawhee

Posted by justin on September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment

Genealogy Project 2nd Generation 1. Hawhee, Debra. “Kairotic Encounters.” Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention. Ed. Janet M. Atwill and Janice M. Lauer. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2001. 16-35. Executive Summary: Hawhee begins her article by discussing how invention is conceived in either exterior or interior terms. That is, invention happens when the rhetor either: a)finds things that exist in a preexistent rhetorical order or... Read More

Filed under CCR601, CCR634 (AR), rhetorical invention · Tagged with dunamis, gorgias, hawhee, invention, kairos, kairotic moment

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New Music 8/31/2010

Hello again. I thought I’d share with you some of the new stuff I’ve come across this week. . . 1. Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill : Sharing their band name with a small city in the North of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, this Oxford based folk / pop outfit create soft songs with [...]

New Music – 8/16/ – 8/23 2010

1. Haruka Nakamura – Twilight : Nakamura is often referred to as a “composer” more than a “musician” . . . which is probably just as well. This album offers feathery, feeting piano/acoustic guitar pieces accompanied by soft female vocals and a host of clicks, pops, and other lo-fi ambient noise. The piano compositions (they’re [...]

New Music: 8/8 – 8/15

Here are a couple of new releases I’ve listened through this week. . . 1. Of Montreal – False Priest: I haven’t been a huge fan of much that Of Montreal has released since Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer? and this album is no different. Though there is some really nice glam/funk/soul stuff on [...]