Barbara A Biesecker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3450829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara A Biesecker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara A |
| FAMILY NAME | Biesecker |
| SIGNATURE | BIESECKER B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The crisis of higher education and the rhetorical vicissitudes of the common good
Over the course of this essay, I advance four interrelated claims. One, today's crisis in the humanities is real. Two, today's crisis in the humanities is also manufactured. Three, a jettisoned archaeogenealogy of civil society and its associated political principle of the common good will show that the crisis in the humanities that is both real and manufactured is indicative of a dramatic transformation of the common good. Four, turning the cris…
From General History to Philosophy
This article aspires to explain how it is possible that “white lives matter,” “blue lives matter,” and, ultimately, “all lives matter,” can sound, feel like and act as responses to the claim that “black lives matter” for so many Americans by approaching the political sequence as both a historical (situated, epistemological, and ideological) problem and a philosophical (metaphysical and ontological) question. By way of general history, the first p…
Introduction to the Centennial Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech
"Introduction to the Centennial Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101(1), p. 1
Forum Introduction
Keywords: AgambenAristotleBare LifeBenjaminBiopoliticsCitizenshipDerridaState of ExceptionVoter ID Law
Of Historicity, Rhetoric
Of Historicity, Rhetoric:The Archive as Scene of Invention Barbara A. Biesecker (bio) First, an assertion: Whatever else the archive may be-say, an historical space, a political space, or a sacred space; a site of preservation, interpretation, or commemoration-it always already is the provisionally settled scene of our collective invention, of our collective invention of us and of it. To assert this much is, of course, to refuse absolutely the su…
Remembering World War II
This essay critically examines the reemergence of World War II in public culture. By analyzing four popular memory texts (the World, War II Memorial, Saving Private Ryan, The Greatest Generation, and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial) as well as the discourse circulating about them, it argues that these reconstructions of the past function rhetorically as civics lessons for a generation beset by fractious disagreements about the …
By way of a long and circuitous route
(1998). By way of a long and circuitous route: Propaganda and democracy and/as a lesson in effective history. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 449-452
Rhetorical studies and the “new” psychoanalysis
READ MY DESIRE: LACAN AGAINST THE HISTORICISTS. By Joan Copjec. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1994; pp. 272. $30.00; paper $14.00. THE SPOILS OF FREEDOM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM AFTER THE FALL OF SOCIALISM. By Renata Salecl. London and New York: Routledge, 1994; pp. viii + 167. $59.95; paper $16.95. THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY. By Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso, 1989; pp. xvi + 240. $60.00; paper $18.95. UNMARKED: THE POLI…
Of Historicity, Rhetoric
Of Historicity, Rhetoric:The Archive as Scene of Invention Barbara A. Biesecker (bio) First, an assertion: Whatever else the archive may be-say, an historical space, a political space, or a sacred space; a site of preservation, interpretation, or commemoration-it always already is the provisionally settled scene of our collective invention, of our collective invention of us and of it. To assert this much is, of course, to refuse absolutely the su…
Remembering World War II
This essay critically examines the reemergence of World War II in public culture. By analyzing four popular memory texts (the World, War II Memorial, Saving Private Ryan, The Greatest Generation, and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial) as well as the discourse circulating about them, it argues that these reconstructions of the past function rhetorically as civics lessons for a generation beset by fractious disagreements about the …
From General History to Philosophy
This article aspires to explain how it is possible that “white lives matter,” “blue lives matter,” and, ultimately, “all lives matter,” can sound, feel like and act as responses to the claim that “black lives matter” for so many Americans by approaching the political sequence as both a historical (situated, epistemological, and ideological) problem and a philosophical (metaphysical and ontological) question. By way of general history, the first p…
The crisis of higher education and the rhetorical vicissitudes of the common good
Over the course of this essay, I advance four interrelated claims. One, today's crisis in the humanities is real. Two, today's crisis in the humanities is also manufactured. Three, a jettisoned archaeogenealogy of civil society and its associated political principle of the common good will show that the crisis in the humanities that is both real and manufactured is indicative of a dramatic transformation of the common good. Four, turning the cris…
Forum Introduction
Keywords: AgambenAristotleBare LifeBenjaminBiopoliticsCitizenshipDerridaState of ExceptionVoter ID Law
Rhetorical studies and the “new” psychoanalysis
READ MY DESIRE: LACAN AGAINST THE HISTORICISTS. By Joan Copjec. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1994; pp. 272. $30.00; paper $14.00. THE SPOILS OF FREEDOM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM AFTER THE FALL OF SOCIALISM. By Renata Salecl. London and New York: Routledge, 1994; pp. viii + 167. $59.95; paper $16.95. THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY. By Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso, 1989; pp. xvi + 240. $60.00; paper $18.95. UNMARKED: THE POLI…
By way of a long and circuitous route
(1998). By way of a long and circuitous route: Propaganda and democracy and/as a lesson in effective history. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 449-452
Rhetorical studies and the “new” psychoanalysis
READ MY DESIRE: LACAN AGAINST THE HISTORICISTS. By Joan Copjec. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1994; pp. 272. $30.00; paper $14.00. THE SPOILS OF FREEDOM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FEMINISM AFTER THE FALL OF SOCIALISM. By Renata Salecl. London and New York: Routledge, 1994; pp. viii + 167. $59.95; paper $16.95. THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY. By Slavoj Žižek. London and New York: Verso, 1989; pp. xvi + 240. $60.00; paper $18.95. UNMARKED: THE POLI…
Remembering World War II
This essay critically examines the reemergence of World War II in public culture. By analyzing four popular memory texts (the World, War II Memorial, Saving Private Ryan, The Greatest Generation, and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial) as well as the discourse circulating about them, it argues that these reconstructions of the past function rhetorically as civics lessons for a generation beset by fractious disagreements about the …
Of Historicity, Rhetoric
Of Historicity, Rhetoric:The Archive as Scene of Invention Barbara A. Biesecker (bio) First, an assertion: Whatever else the archive may be-say, an historical space, a political space, or a sacred space; a site of preservation, interpretation, or commemoration-it always already is the provisionally settled scene of our collective invention, of our collective invention of us and of it. To assert this much is, of course, to refuse absolutely the su…
Forum Introduction
Keywords: AgambenAristotleBare LifeBenjaminBiopoliticsCitizenshipDerridaState of ExceptionVoter ID Law
Introduction to the Centennial Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech
"Introduction to the Centennial Issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech." Quarterly Journal of Speech, 101(1), p. 1
From General History to Philosophy
This article aspires to explain how it is possible that “white lives matter,” “blue lives matter,” and, ultimately, “all lives matter,” can sound, feel like and act as responses to the claim that “black lives matter” for so many Americans by approaching the political sequence as both a historical (situated, epistemological, and ideological) problem and a philosophical (metaphysical and ontological) question. By way of general history, the first p…
The crisis of higher education and the rhetorical vicissitudes of the common good
Over the course of this essay, I advance four interrelated claims. One, today's crisis in the humanities is real. Two, today's crisis in the humanities is also manufactured. Three, a jettisoned archaeogenealogy of civil society and its associated political principle of the common good will show that the crisis in the humanities that is both real and manufactured is indicative of a dramatic transformation of the common good. Four, turning the cris…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Rhetoric (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Common sense (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)