We will work here (again) on Tuesday as we consider some of last week's unanswered questions:
- What would you identify as the principal postmodern dilemma for rhetorical theory, based on our explorations of Cultural Dis/Identification, Cultural Dis/Location, and Rhetorical Subjectivities and Objectivities? Where do you think we are left, in other words?
- Last week I mentioned that we managed to challenge the default positioning of standpoint through the various metaphors offered by Gates, Anzaldua, and Trinh, but I postponed our discussion of how. This week, let's take up that question again. If we were to try to do the kind of research that Jarratt describes, what other ways would we have to position ourselves? What questions are we empowered to ask? What attitudes are we encouraged to transgress?
- Several weeks ago we surveyed notions of "ideology" for one or more notions that could fit the projects of Richards, Burke, and Crosswhite. Based on your final exploratory (and knowing that you are still very much in the process of completing it), how might you revise your stance on what you think "ideology" is in rhetorical theory or practice, or on what "ideology" should preclude or entail?
- What becomes feminist rhetoric?
- What becomes feminist criticism?
- What is a feminist social epistemology?
See you all very soon,
-Dr. Graban
