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Craft As A Memorializing Rhetoric, Maria Novotny
Craft As A Memorializing Rhetoric, Maria Novotny
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
This video essay functions as a reflective piece pondering the intersections between craft, family, and the act of memorializing. Specifically, this essay attempts to push beyond traditional assumptions of craft as a discourse related to home projects or food. Instead, suggesting that the craft is a practice that memorializes bodies that have passed away and/or pain and sorrow carried on our own bodies. To make these claims, the author narrates two personal stories of craft as a memorializing rhetoric. The first narrative recounts how she came to realize craft as an essential practice embedded in the passing away of relatives. …
Death: The End We All Have To Face(Book), Christine Martorana
Death: The End We All Have To Face(Book), Christine Martorana
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
When my friend Aaron unexpectedly died several years ago, I gained firsthand experience with a growing online phenomenon: mourners turning to online spaces following the death of a loved one. In what follows, I present details from Aaron's Facebook page in order to illustrate two specific observations: 1) Digital technologies are reconfiguring the permanence of death, inviting the living to recreate the deceased as a heavenly intermediary, and 2) this continued virtual existence of the deceased alongside the constant accessibility of digital technologies is opening a space for death-related egocentrism. As I have observed Aaron's wall over the past several …
Toward Death And Violence – Rhetorical And Creative Potential; A Reader's Text, Giovana Driussi
Toward Death And Violence – Rhetorical And Creative Potential; A Reader's Text, Giovana Driussi
Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion
I wrote this essay for readers, hoping to provoke, inspire, enrage and enjoy. Death and violence have been painful and productive forces in my life, and specifically in my writing. In this essay I share some of these experiences and relate them directly to writing, as well as public, political, rhetorical, and historical topics. My desire is to affect personal and public reflection, and to display rhetorical agency in both spheres, thus demonstrating that such divisions, and most if not all binaries, are social constructs that beg for challenge.