April 27, 2008

Identification & Identity Correction

You already know how much I appreciate the Burke quote about identification (quoted below in the post on anthropocentrism). Well, I’m flushing it out a bit here, noting seven ways in which identification functions. My challenge to you is to turn this methodology on The Yes Men, exposing the ways in which they [...]

April 27, 2008

Clustering . . .

I just came across this interesting quote that appears to me to be very similar to “the method” that we did in class, though “strands” are referred to here as “clusters.” There are some nuanced differences between the two words, but I think the idea of “clustering” ideographs to perform specific persuasive functions is [...]