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Omri Ceren is a PhD candidate studying Rhetoric at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. He lives in downtown Los Angeles.
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Classical Rhetoric Archive
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Gender And The Sacred In Ancient Greece (Plus: The Dangerous Anachronism Of Identification-Driven Classical Scholarship)
Joan Connelly has a new book out about the role of priestesses in ancient Greece. James Davidson’s is not a fan: This is a preview of Gender And The Sacred In Ancient Greece (Plus: The Dangerous Anachronism Of Identification-Driven Classical Scholarship). Read the full post (504 words, 1 image, estimated 2:01 mins reading time) -
Greek Version of Scientific Instrumentalism Was Particularly Instrumentalist
There are at least two ways that science is circumstantially practiced. One is as a heavily mathematical search to understand the basic structure of the universe and what’s in it – what David Deutsche refers to as “revealing and explaining the fabric of reality.” (3) The other is as fairly straightforward instrumentalism – the theory [...] -
Anthimeria – Linguists Uncover “Garden-Variety Typo” In Rhetorical Landscape
The only thing that annoys us more than non-rhetoricians rampaging through the rhetorical china shop is when they’re obviously right. Language Hat recently tried to hunt down the etymology of anthimeria, which seems malformed. Silva Rhetoricae defines the figure as “substitution of one part of speech for another (such as a noun used as a [...] -
Amazon Marketing And Its Discontents – New Books We Can’t Afford
Now they’re just being cruel: You’d think their marketing algorithms would also cross-check for “likelihood of max’d credit cards given previous shopping patterns”. Or do you think that doesn’t really matter to them? If you’ve got a job though, you really ought hook yourself up because this sounds awesome. References: * Missiou, Anna. The Subversive Oratory of Andokides: [...] -
Rhetoric Not So Much With the Revolution Thing
For some reason, dealing seriously with language ingrains in a scholar a certain skepticism when it comes to revolutionary change. Lacan, for instance, is at his most explicitly rhetorical when developing his theory of the Four Discourses. His famous and prescient retort to student revolutionaries during May ‘68, coincidentally the time he was developing the [...]
