Writing the third‐sophistic Cyborg: Periphrasis on an [in]tense rhetoric

Ballif, Michelle

doi:10.1080/02773949809391130

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“…Rhetoric as instrument in this world means that speakers possess the resourcefulness to forge a linguistic means to navigate and "negotiate the flux" of social life (Ballif, 1998, p. 65). To "forge" means, as Michelle Ballif (1998) says, to bring into being, to make, to hammer as well as to counterfeit, to fabricate, to craft a forgery. 8 As the art of appearances, rhetoric does all of these things and, as a dynamic force, is all of these things, depending, of course, on what "is" is.…”

Section: Speculative Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Mikhail Bakhtin and the rhetorical tradition

Murphy

2001

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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Over the course of the past decade, the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has exerted an increasing influence in rhetorical studies. This essay explores the ways in which rhetorical scholars have embraced Mikhail Bakhtin as a rhetorical theorist in spite of the fact that he disdained rhetoric. The first section of the essay examines the concept of tradition, elucidates three definitions of the rhetorical tradition commonly available to theorists, and explains the processes through which these definitions articulate as rhetorical theorists even those people who attack rhetoric. The essay then turns to the rhetorical reception of Mikhail Bakhtin, critiques the strategies that frame him as a rhetorician, and offers an alternative reading of his key discussion of rhetoric and of the rhetorical tradition in general. The conclusion argues that the reception of Bakhtin suggests a pattern in rhetorical studies. As rhetoricians encounter theorists who condemn rhetoric, they tend to defer the instrumental aspect of rhetoric, its potential for manipulation, in favor of a more benign view of rhetorical action. It is dangerous to disregard the danger of rhetoric in pursuit of a higher status for rhetoric.

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Section: Speculative Conclusionmentioning

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Mikhail Bakhtin and the rhetorical tradition

Murphy

2001

Quarterly Journal of Speech

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“…To this day, I have never felt like the classroom should be a place of restriction and discipline. I always wanted its doors to be open to "noise" rather than just communication (see Ballif, 1998). As Dr. Wiseman's medical narrative wanes and subsides, my own story comes into focus a bit more.…”

Section: Becoming Goofy: Third Gradementioning

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Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s)

Hanan

2018

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This essay (re)presents my own experiences living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) as a child and adult to provide a radically historical, contextual, and critical autoethnographic conceptualization of this “learning disability.” Specifically, by building upon Ragan Fox’s “auto-archeological” method, a critical perspective that “unite[s] autoethnography and Foucault’s theories of discourse,” I draw upon institutional artifacts, psychiatric diagnoses, and interviews with close family members to show that ADD is a “technology of the self” that economizes the body in accordance with a distinctly neoliberal temporality. This temporalizing process, I show, is reinforced by a range of other neoliberal technologies of selfhood and ultimately cultivates the very “deficit framework” that ADD diagnoses are aimed at healing. The conclusion questions the legitimacy of ADD outside of the various technological interfaces that make the disability visible as a public problem and considers the intimate connections between neoliberalism, ableism, and the contemporary university.

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“…Indeed, it is that recognition of the status of the simulacrum that helps to place Deleuze into a counterphilosophical traditional that often serves as a source for rhetoricians and other counterphilosophers. See Vitanza (1997Vitanza ( , 2002 and Ballif (1998).…”

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Unhinged:Kairosand the Invention of the Untimely

Leston

2013

Atlantic Journal of Communication

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Writing the third‐sophistic Cyborg: Periphrasis on an [in]tense rhetoric

Cited by 18 publications

References 11 publications

Mikhail Bakhtin and the rhetorical tradition

Mikhail Bakhtin and the rhetorical tradition

Subjects of Technology: An Auto-Archeology of Attention Deficit Disorder in Neoliberal Time(s)

Unhinged:Kairosand the Invention of the Untimely

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