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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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Wednesday Link Dump – Screaming Chimps, Powerpoint Poisons Everything, Rhetorical Advertising, Etc
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Believe! Lacanian Theory Wiki
We were going to wrap this link into a longer post about online research and organization in the 21st century: the growth of specialized online communities (listservs, blogs etc), the merging of communication artifacts with sites of knowledge production (a science blog is both a place where science happens and an artifact for rhetoric of [...] -
Psychoanalytic Theory – Come For The Answers, But Stay For The Questions
We understand that there are disputes about the degree to which Lacanian theory provides the right answers to basic ontological, epistemological, and psychological questions. We happen to think that there’s something quite suggestive about a robust Continental theory that converges with so much of the American rhetorical and pragmatic tradition (Burke and Lacan’s emphasis on [...] -
The Psychoanalytic Pushback Against Philosophy Of Consciousness
Studies like that consciousness of bacteria one from a couple of days ago sometimes get appropriated for “see, humans aren’t all that special” kinds of moves. But everything rhetorical – everything that reserves a special place for the intersubjective relationship mediated by discourse – militates against that kind of leveling. Now the trivial answer to [...] -
Oh Hell No
Sigh: To paraphrase the immortal Tobias Zachary Ziegler: there is literally no one in the world that we do not hate right now. Previously: * What If The Lacanian Gaze Wasn’t Totally Stupid? * The Cute Yellow Thin Wedge Of The Coming Robot Wars * Rhetoric Not So Much With the Revolution Thing Permanent link to this post (54 words, 1 [...] -
What If The Lacanian Gaze Wasn’t Totally Stupid?
If you’ve never seen Chris Marker’s La Jette, do it now. The entire thing is just under 30 minutes and we assure you that there is nothing you could possibly be doing that’s more important than sitting down and watching the sublime brilliance that is this film. Don’t put off watching it until you get [...]
