Rhetoric and the Public Sphere

agency
1. ability to act/influence the world around us
  1. allows us to inform a broad range of people
    1. communicate in a way that connects
biopower
1. social norms used to govern actions/behaviors
nomos vs kairos
1. nomos: truth is innate, not socially constructed
  1. truth is discovered, already exists
2. kairos: there is a collective truth
  1. exposure to diff ideas >> diff ideas about truth
rhetoric as cooking
1. people experiment with rhetoric
  1. trial/error
2. Plato believed true knowledge = medicine
Contingent social questions (Aristotle)
1. value in learning and teaching rhetoric
2. the questions isn't whether people are inherently good or evil
  1. How do we promote good behavior? Make world better?
Justice
1. Plato: something is good/bad
  1. no social bearing
2. Sophists: justice depends on situation, person, motivation
3. Aristotle: no absolute determined justice
  1. How do we teach what should be?
Foucault - Discourse
1. all statements made, have value
  1. discourse=language with meaning and is symbolic
Social location and agency
1. How do we use our location to act upon the world?
  1. where you "check in" can have a meaning
Globalization >> Crises
1. replaces local markets
geneology
1. Foucault believes history is a web not line
  1. we should study all sites and all people to understand where power was exercised and how history is shaped
Dialectic for Plato
1. we can use comm., but with specific rules, to reach truth
  1. truth by narrow form and investigation
debate b/w Sophists and Plato
1. how much of knowledge is social?
2. is truth socially constructed?
cognitive surplus
1. we can still interact with people we have never met in person via the internet
  1. ex: crowdsourcing

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