Bradford Vivian
Biographic Data
| ID | 2137406 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bradford Vivian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bradford |
| FAMILY NAME | Vivian |
| SIGNATURE | VIVIAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Engineering Arts (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Trope of Innocence
This essay explores how public officials invoke the innocence of children within contests over political power and social influence. Its primary object of analysis is not the national gun control debate per se, but political appeals to the innocence of children within that debate. The essay focuses in particular on the degree to which long-standing racial encodings of innocence in U.S. public culture, which typically deny innocence to Black child…
On the Erosion of Democracy by Truth
This article proposes a counterintuitive approach to the timely phenomenon of so-called post-truth politics. The article argues that the premise of a post-truth politics misdiagnoses the particular crisis of truth that now threatens to undermine democratic norms and institutions. Social and political appeals cited as prime examples of an allegedly proliferating “post-truth” mentality do not abandon truth; those appeals rationalize available forms…
The Sight and Sound of Lincoln
Times of Violence
Keywords: TimeViolenceSystemicHistorical MemoryWestern Societies Notes 1. David Ewing Duncan, Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001), 36. 2. Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (London: Verso, 2009), 94. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998); State of Exception, trans. …
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
Rhetoric, remembrance, and visual form
"This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form pr…
Perfection
Michael J. Hyde, Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2010), xvii + 322 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Michael Hyde's latest book substantially extends his formidab
Neoliberal Epideictic
Public memorial services held in New York City on September 11, 2002, marked the most important U.S. civic commemoration of the present era. Numerous popular and academic critics excoriated speakers on that day for commemorating the occasion with commemorative declamations instead of offering original speeches. This essay contends that assessing these unusual public eulogies according to post-Romantic conceptions of rhetorical practice overlooks …
Being made strange
By elaborating upon pivotal twentieth-century studies in language, representation, and subjectivity, Being Made Strange reorients the study of rhetoric according to the discursive formation of subjectivity. The author develops a theory of how rhetorical practices establish social, political, and ethical relations between self and other, individual and collectivity, good and evil, and past and present. He produces a novel methodology that analyzes…
Jefferson's other
This essay investigates how various representations of the public memory of Thomas Jefferson function rhetorically. Curiously, such representations depict a past for which no certain record exists. The portrayal of Jefferson's alleged affair with Sally Hemings in novels, films, and other discourses demonstrates that the rhetoric of public memory, which preserves the relevance and utility of the past for audiences in the present, is often sustaine…
Neoliberal Epideictic
Public memorial services held in New York City on September 11, 2002, marked the most important U.S. civic commemoration of the present era. Numerous popular and academic critics excoriated speakers on that day for commemorating the occasion with commemorative declamations instead of offering original speeches. This essay contends that assessing these unusual public eulogies according to post-Romantic conceptions of rhetorical practice overlooks …
Jefferson's other
This essay investigates how various representations of the public memory of Thomas Jefferson function rhetorically. Curiously, such representations depict a past for which no certain record exists. The portrayal of Jefferson's alleged affair with Sally Hemings in novels, films, and other discourses demonstrates that the rhetoric of public memory, which preserves the relevance and utility of the past for audiences in the present, is often sustaine…
Jefferson's other
This essay investigates how various representations of the public memory of Thomas Jefferson function rhetorically. Curiously, such representations depict a past for which no certain record exists. The portrayal of Jefferson's alleged affair with Sally Hemings in novels, films, and other discourses demonstrates that the rhetoric of public memory, which preserves the relevance and utility of the past for audiences in the present, is often sustaine…
Being made strange
By elaborating upon pivotal twentieth-century studies in language, representation, and subjectivity, Being Made Strange reorients the study of rhetoric according to the discursive formation of subjectivity. The author develops a theory of how rhetorical practices establish social, political, and ethical relations between self and other, individual and collectivity, good and evil, and past and present. He produces a novel methodology that analyzes…
Neoliberal Epideictic
Public memorial services held in New York City on September 11, 2002, marked the most important U.S. civic commemoration of the present era. Numerous popular and academic critics excoriated speakers on that day for commemorating the occasion with commemorative declamations instead of offering original speeches. This essay contends that assessing these unusual public eulogies according to post-Romantic conceptions of rhetorical practice overlooks …
Rhetoric, remembrance, and visual form
"This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to preserve the past amid rapid social change. The chapters in Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form pr…
Perfection
Michael J. Hyde, Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2010), xvii + 322 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Michael Hyde's latest book substantially extends his formidab
Rhetoric, Remembrance, and Visual Form
Times of Violence
Keywords: TimeViolenceSystemicHistorical MemoryWestern Societies Notes 1. David Ewing Duncan, Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001), 36. 2. Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (London: Verso, 2009), 94. 3. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998); State of Exception, trans. …
The Sight and Sound of Lincoln
On the Erosion of Democracy by Truth
This article proposes a counterintuitive approach to the timely phenomenon of so-called post-truth politics. The article argues that the premise of a post-truth politics misdiagnoses the particular crisis of truth that now threatens to undermine democratic norms and institutions. Social and political appeals cited as prime examples of an allegedly proliferating “post-truth” mentality do not abandon truth; those appeals rationalize available forms…
The Trope of Innocence
This essay explores how public officials invoke the innocence of children within contests over political power and social influence. Its primary object of analysis is not the national gun control debate per se, but political appeals to the innocence of children within that debate. The essay focuses in particular on the degree to which long-standing racial encodings of innocence in U.S. public culture, which typically deny innocence to Black child…
Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Political science (2 works)