https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/

Here's Derrida's Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry; command+F differance or head to section 5. Deconstruction for more

In other words, Bitzer's view is h̶o̶r̶s̶e̶s̶h̶i̶t̶ rhetoric is a tool

I aspire to stir the pot as much as Lloyd Bitzer, sheesh

Sounds like the sort of experience that bolsters the case for the dissoi logoi and multimodal project having so many possible iterations.

This is a neat criticism of Bitzer when we recall Vatz' charge that the account failed to take the phenomenological into account

Salience: importance

Reminiscent of the sort of determination or discernment that Cooper talks about.

Weltanschauung: worldview. German.

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I'm anticipating Boyle's "Rhetoric as a Posthuman Practice" having something to say about rhetorical situations outliving the people having them

Eric Hayot would have a field day with this paragraph. 54545454545454 (...)

Sounds as though Bitzer is getting at rhetoric being any domain in which someone puts a spin on a situation.

Not sure how I feel about this example

I'm having trouble distinguishing between the rhetorical situation that's failing to be sought after and the parts-- audience, subject, speaker, occasion, etc.-- that seem to collectively comprise that situation. It seems that a rhetorical situation is the interplay of those parts, perhaps in a manner similar to the Bakhtinian chronotope? I.e., a sort of contextual intersection?

medium design!

(SPOILER ALERT) This reminds me of chapter 2 of The Hobbit. TL;DR the Dwarves-- partial epitomes of fantasy heroes in their masculinity and hunting/weapons proclivity-- are captured in bags by trolls, and in a subversion of who tends to be the savior in fantasy at that time, it's the hobbit who bails them out. Hobbits have a proclivity for potatoes and rabbit.

I'm seeing a common thread of writers in this week's reading and last week's rejecting violent dialectics in idea formation in favor of the sort of communal creation espoused by Cooper a la Whitehead and others.

Now that's an instagram caption for ya

Okay, now medium design is starting to make sense

The container or recipient's significance makes sense; in addition to whatever's found out in the field for subsistence, if 15 hours could cover a full week's worth of supplies, anything surplus would probably have to be stored or carried somehow.

https://www.lareviewofbooks.org/article/facing-intolerable/ I read Rancière for a philosophy of photography class, and when I think of his work in correspondence with rethinking a medium as that which surrounds the subject that's usually the only thing with focus directed at it, I'm led to view medium design as a sort of laying bare of backdrop so as to understand causality a bit better wrt a given subject

this refers back to medium design's disdain for the violence inherent in dialectic

I'm still struggling to fully apprehend the concept, but it sounds like it's got a quality of being full of creative potential

I look forward to name-dropping this like an ass from time to time

pedagogy, is that you?!

So is medium design negative by nature?

This smacks of Cooper's, Deleuze's, and Whitehead's departures from Hegelian dialectic.

Okay, so medium design/thinking is considering the backdrop against which one's subject matter is situated.

Texts like Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man suggest that the days of old mightn't've been all that long ago, and that's got its pros and cons

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The hidden transcript is reminiscent of the the "hidden curriculum" that Jessica McCrory Calarco aims to shed light on in her A Field Guide to Grad School. Although McCrory Calarco's binary is more about those with access to knowledge of the ins and outs of academia vs those who don't, the dynamic for Scott is similar in its separating those for whom the system works and those for whom it outwardly seems an obstacle to education.

This isn't surprising. Those who've mastered getting merit out of a system (independent of how well they feel they've learned) are going to espouse it.

Oh wait that's self-deprecation; must be a Freudian slip

Did somebody say imposter syndrome

This sounds like the sort of un- and re-learning that happens when students make the jump from high school to university

I think these prepositions are important because, otherwise, the dynamic that puts the professor lording over the student similar to the banking model could just be perpetuated in a new guise.

To recap, Friere revisits the professor whose process has been streamlined by the university bureaucracy, and whose value and legitimacy has been questioned by those outside of the academy, and re-voices the profession's worth.