Articles for Next Week

I just sent the articles for next week. They should give you a sense of three fairly different ways animals can be treated rhetorically. I had the pleasure of seeing Davis and Hawhee present their papers at RSA 2010, before they were published, and I loved how their takes on the matter came from completely different angles, yet were still very useful to think about for my own work. As we discussed in class this week, consilience comes in many forms, and we can often envision our own scholarship as existing in the center of a big, messy Venn diagram overlapping in places with the work of other scholars.

The articles are as follows. Send me an email if you did not receive them yet.

Davis, Diane. "Creaturely Rhetorics." Philosophy & Rhetoric 44, no. 1 (2011): 88-94.

Hawhee, Debra. "Toward a Bestial Rhetoric." Philosophy & Rhetoric 44, no. 1 (2011): 81-87.

Parrish, Alex C. “The (Instinctual) Art of Persuasion.” The Evolutionary Review, vol.4, no. 1 (May 2013).

Class Canceled, But This Should Tide You Over

No class tomorrow. We'll consolidate our weekly activities into Thursday's class session. In the meantime, here is something that will blow your mind:


Reviving extinct species.

"Population control is one of our security precautions. There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park."