Category Archives: Visual Rhetoric

lost generation

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Michael

via Dennis Jerz. Good video:

Posted in Visual Rhetoric | 1 Comment

dance, commemoration, and remembrance of september 11

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Michael

Some classmates and I are collecting YouTube videos incorporating dance and the remembrance of 9/11 for a pretty low-key presentation for our Public Memory course. In this first, one, the WAIT Team (Washington AIDS International Teens) choreographed and danced to … Continue reading →

Posted in CAS 506: Public Memory (Spring 2009), Visual Rhetoric | Leave a comment

notes from the interblags: racism, transphobia, marginalia

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Michael

• via Dennis, BooMan on explicit racism in this election. An excerpt: Anytime they poll the American people about racism, blacks say there is more of it than whites. The raw racism on display this election season is probably more … Continue reading →

Posted in New Media, Notes from the Interblags, Queer issues and theory, Race, Teaching Composition, Visual Rhetoric | 2 Comments

584: Weekly Position Paper #8: The Relationships between Rhetorics of Silence and Visual Rhetorics

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Michael

Drawing on “the widely held assumption that a person cannot not communicate” (15, emphasis in original), Cheryl Glenn makes a strong case for understanding silence as rhetoric in Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence. Noting that silence is “undervalued and under-understood” … Continue reading →

Posted in English 584 Rhetoric Writing and Identity (Fall 2008), Visual Rhetoric | Leave a comment

the dove self esteem fund

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Michael

Via the amazing Nathan Buck, this feminist YouTube video on the media and beauty industry: I don’t know a lot about Dove’s Self Esteem Fund, but I think this ad is pretty impressive — especially because it is so quick … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism, Gender, Remixing, Visual Literacy, Visual Rhetoric | 2 Comments