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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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Public Sphere Archive
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Lifeworld Colonization Meets Mass Communication, Global Warming Edition
Democratic theory 101: there is a technical sphere and a public sphere, and the two are by design separate and unequal. Where they do come into contact, scientists are charged with providing grist for the deliberative mill via epistemic descriptions of risk pegged to measures of sociological consensus. Legislative bodies and argumentative forums take the [...] -
Habermas: The Ideal Speech Situation Is A Bad Model For The Ideal Speech Situation
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Habermas’s Peircean Fallibilism
After all of the underbrush of Between Facts and Norms is cleared – all the constitutional identity stuff, all the deliberative democracy stuff, etc – there’s still the naive question: what, exactly is between facts and norms? This is obviously the space where facticity intersects with validity, but that’s a trivial result based as much [...] -
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 [...]
