Points of Praxis

My Blog Reflects on Visual Rhetorical Theory and Disability Rhetoric and their Connections to Classical and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

Quotes to keep in mind...

"From Plato to Levi-Strauss, the spoken word has held a privileged position in the Western worldview, being regarded as intimately involved in our sense of self and constituting a sign of truth and authenticity" (Chandler 51).

"Symbols resist individualistic interpretation because they are overdetermined by customary usage, embedded so frequently in conventional discourse that they rarely take on a reflective, individual meaning" (Hill and Helmers 4).

"The positive outcome of this interdisciplinarity is that 'visual culture ... is a site of convergence and conversation across disciplinary lines'" (qtd in Hill and Helmers 18).

"Pictorial Turn"--"a growing recognition of the ubiquity of images and of their importance in the dissemination and reception of information, ideas, and opinions--processes that lie at the heart of all rhetorical practices, social movements, and cultural institutions" (Hill and Helmers 19).

The image came to be used to "prompt an immediate, visceral response, to develop cognitive (though largely unconscious) connections over a sustained period of time, or to prompt conscious analytical thought" (Hill 37).

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