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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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What Isn’t Argument?
We’ve been going back and forth with a colleague who has a near-reflexive need to want to expand the horizon of what counts as “argument”. As near as we can tell, argument for him is present whenever speakers gesture toward the form of an argument – that is, when they go through the motions of [...] -
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 [...]
