Driving is another one of my favorite activities. I have this quote taped to the sun visor of my car:
"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
-Jean Bauldrillard
-Jean Bauldrillard
Thursday, May 7, 2009
quote of the day may: on driving
Driving is another one of my favorite activities. I have this quote taped to the sun visor of my car:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
quote of the day may: on groups
"Each gathering needs to become an example of the future we want to create."
-Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
quote of the day may: on rhetoric
Here are just a few of my favorite definitions of rhetoric:
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a knack of producing pleasure and gratification; a form of flattery (Plato, Gorgias)
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an ability in each case to see the available means of persuasion (Aristotle)
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the science of speaking well (Quintilian)
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to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will (Frances Bacon)
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the art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end (George Campbell)
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the art of not just pleasing the fancy merely but of speaking both to the understanding and the heart (Hugh Blair)
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a study of misunderstanding and its remedies (I.A. Richards)
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a form of energy that drives and is imparted to communication, awakened in a response to challenge (George Kennedy)
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any partisan, meaningful, consequential text (Carole Blair)
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a force that gives form to the vague and disordered flow of human experience. Rhetoric gives shape to social reality and, in doing so, makes sense of it
(Andrew Herman)
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and so what you to is to make your best arguments, listen hard to what other people have to say, and coax folks in the right direction (Barack Obama)
a knack of producing pleasure and gratification; a form of flattery (Plato, Gorgias)
***
an ability in each case to see the available means of persuasion (Aristotle)
***
the science of speaking well (Quintilian)
***
to apply reason to imagination for the better moving of the will (Frances Bacon)
***
the art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end (George Campbell)
***
the art of not just pleasing the fancy merely but of speaking both to the understanding and the heart (Hugh Blair)
***
a study of misunderstanding and its remedies (I.A. Richards)
***
a form of energy that drives and is imparted to communication, awakened in a response to challenge (George Kennedy)
***
any partisan, meaningful, consequential text (Carole Blair)
***
a force that gives form to the vague and disordered flow of human experience. Rhetoric gives shape to social reality and, in doing so, makes sense of it
(Andrew Herman)
***
and so what you to is to make your best arguments, listen hard to what other people have to say, and coax folks in the right direction (Barack Obama)
Monday, May 4, 2009
quote of the day may: on shopping
"Shopping isn't just a process of acquiring goods--it's a lifelong process of learning about them. And the faster these products change, the more we have to keep up with the changes by shopping."
-Sharon Zukin
Sunday, May 3, 2009
quote of the day may: on service
"If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen."
-on a greeting card, Ephemera, Inc.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
quote of the day may: Dasein
- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
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