G Thomas Goodnight
Biographic Data
| ID | 136938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Thomas Goodnight |
| GIVEN NAMES | G Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodnight |
| SIGNATURE | GOODNIGHT G T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Game changer”
Energy, publics, and the universe of communication
Professor G. Thomas Goodnight is a distinguished scholar and philosopher, renowned for his research on argumentation in the public sphere. Recently, he has devoted himself to developing the energy communication as a subfield. In this academic interview, Goodnight first explains what energy communication is and why it is important to our field. He then turns to emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, and the Belt and Road’s …
The Chattering Mind
Modern thinkers long have been troubled by everyday talk. For example, one nineteenth-century Tory critic observes, “General small-talk” is any exchange “in mixed society, where men and women, young and old, wise and foolish, are all mingled together.” However available the occasion or obvious the topics, chatting is easy for the talented but awkward for the ungifted. On the other hand, “special, or professional small talk” is an exchange of word…
Rhetoric and Communication
Rhetoric and communication inquiry characterize the broader discipline of communication studies. The discipline has developed by retaining interest in questions of interaction and exchange, language and institutions, as well as publics and social change. The futures of such work include critical investigations into communication societies that are culturally diverse, technologically wired, local-cosmopolitan networks. I support Andrew King's posi…
The Student Debt Bubble
The ‘student debt bubble’ is an ideograph referring to the growing imbalance between the costs of higher education and the capacity of students to shoulder increasing debt burdens. This unsustainable condition is constructed by numerous stakeholders, who have dramatically resituated risks and rewards in higher education. The resulting debt bubble has multiple outcomes, including incremental efforts for reform at the federal level, ideological spe…
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords survived, recovered, and returned to public life after being badly wounded by an assassination attempt on January 8, 2011. During this extended ordeal, the Arizona representative mobilized lyric, dramatic, and oratorical resources into a singular, untimely rhetoric. I contend that she invoked the cultural resources of Polyhymnia—a classical figure reminding us of the ingenious, contingent resourcefulness among the symbolic arts…
The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate
The September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center was an event that inaugurated a "War on Terror" This essay constitutes a productive rhetorical analysis and critique of the 2002 congressional debate over Iraq in an effort to open a metapolitics. Congressional debate is read as an intertextual extension of administration rhetoric pitting fear appeals lit up through a network imaginary against pragmatic policy questions. The reflexive rhetor…
Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets
Post-conventional economic theories are assembled to inquire into the contingent, mimetic, symbolic, and material spirals unfolding the dot-com bubble, 1992-2002. The new technologies bubble is reconstructed as a rhetorical movement across the practices of the hybrid market-industry risk culture of communications. The legacies of the bubble task economic criticism with developing critical capacity sufficient to address attention-driven economies …
The Bourgeois Virtues
China and the United States in a Time of Global Environmental Crisis
Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference
The Passion of the Christ Meets Fahrenheit 9/11
Why are The Passion of the Christand Fahrenheit 9/11mentioned in the same breath when referring to the political campaigns of 2004? What role did these films play in the election debate? How did television code reception, at once expanding and disciplining, tantalizing and moralizing the public? The article examines the entwinement of entertainment, media, and politics in national debate, as the most talked about films of 2004 transmute wartime s…
Messrs. Dinkins, Rangel, and savage in colloquy on the African burial ground
This essay expands the symbolic resources of the African Burial Ground through a dialogical reading of Phillips's essay. It is argued that post‐critique, controversies may be recuperated to recover an expanded sense of coalitional engagement, temporal invention, and deliberative eventfulness
Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”
(1997). Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”. Communication Monographs: Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 270-275
The firm, the park and the university
Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has called for a “national conversation” on “the meaning of American pluralism.” Analysis of The Firm and Jurassic Park is intended to make a contribution to this conversation by exploring the rhetorical textures of incivility that contemporary audiences generally appear to share and enjoy as entertainment but abjure and revile as politics. These postmodern performances celeb…
Entanglements of consumption, cruelty, privacy, and fashion
This essay posits a critical approach to the study of contemporary social controversy so as to initiate inquiry into how these extended rhetorical engagements critique, resituate, and develop communication practices bridging the public and personal spheres. Objections to the use of fur are examined as oppositional argument, that is, as rhetoric that veers from the goal of persuasion in order to block conventional associations and refashion commun…
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Controversy
Journal Article HABERMAS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND CONTROVERSY Get access G. Thomas Goodnight G. Thomas Goodnight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 243–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.243 Published: 01 October 1992
Public discourse
Ronald Reagan's re‐formulation of the rhetoric of war
Since Hiroshima, “conventional wisdom” has held that science and technology will continue to create more and more powerful weapons, that an effective defense against them will never be developed, and that the only solution to this situation is deterrence through an assured retaliatory capability. The speeches analyzed in this essay, given by Ronald Reagan during his first administration, challenge each of these assumptions. Employing textual anal…
Accidental rhetoric
Even though the communication practices at Three Mile Island confounded advocates and critics alike, the root assumptions of this discourse have remained unexamined. This essay theorizes, however, that much of contemporary communication tends to withhold its presuppositions from ready critical access. Accordingly, it may remain for a rhetorical crisis to disclose for us the limits of our most ordinary activities. Our contention is that Three Mile…
Accidental rhetoric
Even though the communication practices at Three Mile Island confounded advocates and critics alike, the root assumptions of this discourse have remained unexamined. This essay theorizes, however, that much of contemporary communication tends to withhold its presuppositions from ready critical access. Accordingly, it may remain for a rhetorical crisis to disclose for us the limits of our most ordinary activities. Our contention is that Three Mile…
Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets
Post-conventional economic theories are assembled to inquire into the contingent, mimetic, symbolic, and material spirals unfolding the dot-com bubble, 1992-2002. The new technologies bubble is reconstructed as a rhetorical movement across the practices of the hybrid market-industry risk culture of communications. The legacies of the bubble task economic criticism with developing critical capacity sufficient to address attention-driven economies …
The Bourgeois Virtues
Entanglements of consumption, cruelty, privacy, and fashion
This essay posits a critical approach to the study of contemporary social controversy so as to initiate inquiry into how these extended rhetorical engagements critique, resituate, and develop communication practices bridging the public and personal spheres. Objections to the use of fur are examined as oppositional argument, that is, as rhetoric that veers from the goal of persuasion in order to block conventional associations and refashion commun…
Ronald Reagan's re‐formulation of the rhetoric of war
Since Hiroshima, “conventional wisdom” has held that science and technology will continue to create more and more powerful weapons, that an effective defense against them will never be developed, and that the only solution to this situation is deterrence through an assured retaliatory capability. The speeches analyzed in this essay, given by Ronald Reagan during his first administration, challenge each of these assumptions. Employing textual anal…
The Passion of the Christ Meets Fahrenheit 9/11
Why are The Passion of the Christand Fahrenheit 9/11mentioned in the same breath when referring to the political campaigns of 2004? What role did these films play in the election debate? How did television code reception, at once expanding and disciplining, tantalizing and moralizing the public? The article examines the entwinement of entertainment, media, and politics in national debate, as the most talked about films of 2004 transmute wartime s…
Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”
(1997). Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”. Communication Monographs: Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 270-275
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Controversy
Journal Article HABERMAS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND CONTROVERSY Get access G. Thomas Goodnight G. Thomas Goodnight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 243–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.243 Published: 01 October 1992
The Student Debt Bubble
The ‘student debt bubble’ is an ideograph referring to the growing imbalance between the costs of higher education and the capacity of students to shoulder increasing debt burdens. This unsustainable condition is constructed by numerous stakeholders, who have dramatically resituated risks and rewards in higher education. The resulting debt bubble has multiple outcomes, including incremental efforts for reform at the federal level, ideological spe…
The firm, the park and the university
Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has called for a “national conversation” on “the meaning of American pluralism.” Analysis of The Firm and Jurassic Park is intended to make a contribution to this conversation by exploring the rhetorical textures of incivility that contemporary audiences generally appear to share and enjoy as entertainment but abjure and revile as politics. These postmodern performances celeb…
China and the United States in a Time of Global Environmental Crisis
Messrs. Dinkins, Rangel, and savage in colloquy on the African burial ground
This essay expands the symbolic resources of the African Burial Ground through a dialogical reading of Phillips's essay. It is argued that post‐critique, controversies may be recuperated to recover an expanded sense of coalitional engagement, temporal invention, and deliberative eventfulness
Accidental rhetoric
Even though the communication practices at Three Mile Island confounded advocates and critics alike, the root assumptions of this discourse have remained unexamined. This essay theorizes, however, that much of contemporary communication tends to withhold its presuppositions from ready critical access. Accordingly, it may remain for a rhetorical crisis to disclose for us the limits of our most ordinary activities. Our contention is that Three Mile…
Ronald Reagan's re‐formulation of the rhetoric of war
Since Hiroshima, “conventional wisdom” has held that science and technology will continue to create more and more powerful weapons, that an effective defense against them will never be developed, and that the only solution to this situation is deterrence through an assured retaliatory capability. The speeches analyzed in this essay, given by Ronald Reagan during his first administration, challenge each of these assumptions. Employing textual anal…
Public discourse
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Controversy
Journal Article HABERMAS, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, AND CONTROVERSY Get access G. Thomas Goodnight G. Thomas Goodnight Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 4, Issue 3, AUTUMN 1992, Pages 243–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/4.3.243 Published: 01 October 1992
Entanglements of consumption, cruelty, privacy, and fashion
This essay posits a critical approach to the study of contemporary social controversy so as to initiate inquiry into how these extended rhetorical engagements critique, resituate, and develop communication practices bridging the public and personal spheres. Objections to the use of fur are examined as oppositional argument, that is, as rhetoric that veers from the goal of persuasion in order to block conventional associations and refashion commun…
The firm, the park and the university
Sheldon Hackney, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has called for a “national conversation” on “the meaning of American pluralism.” Analysis of The Firm and Jurassic Park is intended to make a contribution to this conversation by exploring the rhetorical textures of incivility that contemporary audiences generally appear to share and enjoy as entertainment but abjure and revile as politics. These postmodern performances celeb…
Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”
(1997). Opening up “the spaces of public dissension”. Communication Monographs: Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 270-275
Messrs. Dinkins, Rangel, and savage in colloquy on the African burial ground
This essay expands the symbolic resources of the African Burial Ground through a dialogical reading of Phillips's essay. It is argued that post‐critique, controversies may be recuperated to recover an expanded sense of coalitional engagement, temporal invention, and deliberative eventfulness
The Passion of the Christ Meets Fahrenheit 9/11
Why are The Passion of the Christand Fahrenheit 9/11mentioned in the same breath when referring to the political campaigns of 2004? What role did these films play in the election debate? How did television code reception, at once expanding and disciplining, tantalizing and moralizing the public? The article examines the entwinement of entertainment, media, and politics in national debate, as the most talked about films of 2004 transmute wartime s…
Complex Cases and Legitimation Inference
China and the United States in a Time of Global Environmental Crisis
The Bourgeois Virtues
The Metapolitics of the 2002 Iraq Debate
The September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center was an event that inaugurated a "War on Terror" This essay constitutes a productive rhetorical analysis and critique of the 2002 congressional debate over Iraq in an effort to open a metapolitics. Congressional debate is read as an intertextual extension of administration rhetoric pitting fear appeals lit up through a network imaginary against pragmatic policy questions. The reflexive rhetor…
Rhetoric, Risk, and Markets
Post-conventional economic theories are assembled to inquire into the contingent, mimetic, symbolic, and material spirals unfolding the dot-com bubble, 1992-2002. The new technologies bubble is reconstructed as a rhetorical movement across the practices of the hybrid market-industry risk culture of communications. The legacies of the bubble task economic criticism with developing critical capacity sufficient to address attention-driven economies …
Gabrielle Giffords
Gabrielle Giffords survived, recovered, and returned to public life after being badly wounded by an assassination attempt on January 8, 2011. During this extended ordeal, the Arizona representative mobilized lyric, dramatic, and oratorical resources into a singular, untimely rhetoric. I contend that she invoked the cultural resources of Polyhymnia—a classical figure reminding us of the ingenious, contingent resourcefulness among the symbolic arts…
Rhetoric and Communication
Rhetoric and communication inquiry characterize the broader discipline of communication studies. The discipline has developed by retaining interest in questions of interaction and exchange, language and institutions, as well as publics and social change. The futures of such work include critical investigations into communication societies that are culturally diverse, technologically wired, local-cosmopolitan networks. I support Andrew King's posi…
The Student Debt Bubble
The ‘student debt bubble’ is an ideograph referring to the growing imbalance between the costs of higher education and the capacity of students to shoulder increasing debt burdens. This unsustainable condition is constructed by numerous stakeholders, who have dramatically resituated risks and rewards in higher education. The resulting debt bubble has multiple outcomes, including incremental efforts for reform at the federal level, ideological spe…
The Chattering Mind
Modern thinkers long have been troubled by everyday talk. For example, one nineteenth-century Tory critic observes, “General small-talk” is any exchange “in mixed society, where men and women, young and old, wise and foolish, are all mingled together.” However available the occasion or obvious the topics, chatting is easy for the talented but awkward for the ungifted. On the other hand, “special, or professional small talk” is an exchange of word…
Energy, publics, and the universe of communication
Professor G. Thomas Goodnight is a distinguished scholar and philosopher, renowned for his research on argumentation in the public sphere. Recently, he has devoted himself to developing the energy communication as a subfield. In this academic interview, Goodnight first explains what energy communication is and why it is important to our field. He then turns to emerging topics such as artificial intelligence, smart cities, and the Belt and Road’s …
“Game changer”
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Rhetoric (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)