“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, November 29, 2010

Rhetoric and OOO and me

As you'll hear on Wednesday I hope, OOO rhetorical theory marks a decisive break with almost 500 years of a dominant rhetorical paradigm that even recent developments such as deconstruction failed to shift. This is BIG NEWS because it has to do with the institutions of art, aesthetics...and science. There will also be some fun stuff involving a children's story.

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