Carole Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3887832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carole Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carole |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mood of the Material
This essay explores the commemorative site of Fleury-devant-Douaumont (Fleury), a village destroyed during the battle of Verdun in 1916. We argue that Fleury offers a creative rhetoric of imagining otherwise by rendering a doubled demand on the imagination. It provokes visitors to attend to the fact of war's overwhelming destructiveness. And simultaneously, it urges them to imagine the counterfactual, the 'not having happened'-Fleury as a tiny an…
Places of Public Memory
"Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line America's highways, memory and place have always been deeply interconnected. This book investigates the intersections of memory and place through nine original essays written by leadin…
Rethinking the First World War
The article reviews several books including Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I & the Making of the Modern American Citizen, by Christopher Capozzola, Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War, by Kimberly Jensen and Dynamic of Destruction: Culture & Mass Killing in the First World War, by Alan Kramer
Mark(et)ing “The Handbook
Communication as Collective Memory
Foucault's Ethics
Foucault's most important contribution to ethics is a theoretical framework he developed for historical times and places-Hellenistic Greece, Imperial Rome, and early Christianity. The same lens he used to uncover the ethical systems at work in the discourse of others Foucault uses to examine his own work also. It reveals a normative ethics embedded in his material with three dimensions: (a) the importance of reflective and nonjudgmental communica…
Disciplining the feminine
This essay, positioned at the nexus of several intellectual projects, including the rhetoric of inquiry, the ideological turn, critical rhetoric, and feminist theory, provides a case study of some of the practices in the communication discipline that support a masculinist ideology. The authors examine the ideological issues and practices implicated in a 1992 report on “Active Prolific Female Scholars in Communication” and in their effort to publi…
Contested histories of rhetoric
This essay argues that the two principal modes of organizing rhetorical theories in histories of rhetoric, according to influence or systems, are problematic. Influence and systems histories frequently mask or distort the particularity of rhetoric's history, and they implicitly disenfranchise future retheorizing of rhetoric. These problems result from the preservative and progressive politics that inhere in the ostensibly neutral organizational d…
Public memorializing in postmodernity
This essay argues for a reading of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse. Beginning with a contrast of modernist and postmodern rhetorics of architecture, the authors suggest that the Memorial reflects the typical gestures of postmodern architecture. Moreover, they suggest that a consideration of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse accounts for differences among other critical accounts, highlights the Memoria…
Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language
The humanist turn in Foucault's rhetoric of inquiry
The authors discuss the relationship of Michel Foucault's work to the humanist perspective. They argue that Fisher is inaccurate in characterizing Foucault as an “anti‐humanist.” Instead, Foucault is properly read as sympathetic to the humanist perspective, and his concept of the “statement” and method of critique turn the humanist perspective away from an institutionalized, perhaps ideological, form that legitimizes the extant social order, and …
Public memorializing in postmodernity
This essay argues for a reading of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse. Beginning with a contrast of modernist and postmodern rhetorics of architecture, the authors suggest that the Memorial reflects the typical gestures of postmodern architecture. Moreover, they suggest that a consideration of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse accounts for differences among other critical accounts, highlights the Memoria…
Places of Public Memory
"Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line America's highways, memory and place have always been deeply interconnected. This book investigates the intersections of memory and place through nine original essays written by leadin…
Disciplining the feminine
This essay, positioned at the nexus of several intellectual projects, including the rhetoric of inquiry, the ideological turn, critical rhetoric, and feminist theory, provides a case study of some of the practices in the communication discipline that support a masculinist ideology. The authors examine the ideological issues and practices implicated in a 1992 report on “Active Prolific Female Scholars in Communication” and in their effort to publi…
The humanist turn in Foucault's rhetoric of inquiry
The authors discuss the relationship of Michel Foucault's work to the humanist perspective. They argue that Fisher is inaccurate in characterizing Foucault as an “anti‐humanist.” Instead, Foucault is properly read as sympathetic to the humanist perspective, and his concept of the “statement” and method of critique turn the humanist perspective away from an institutionalized, perhaps ideological, form that legitimizes the extant social order, and …
Mood of the Material
This essay explores the commemorative site of Fleury-devant-Douaumont (Fleury), a village destroyed during the battle of Verdun in 1916. We argue that Fleury offers a creative rhetoric of imagining otherwise by rendering a doubled demand on the imagination. It provokes visitors to attend to the fact of war's overwhelming destructiveness. And simultaneously, it urges them to imagine the counterfactual, the 'not having happened'-Fleury as a tiny an…
Contested histories of rhetoric
This essay argues that the two principal modes of organizing rhetorical theories in histories of rhetoric, according to influence or systems, are problematic. Influence and systems histories frequently mask or distort the particularity of rhetoric's history, and they implicitly disenfranchise future retheorizing of rhetoric. These problems result from the preservative and progressive politics that inhere in the ostensibly neutral organizational d…
Foucault's Ethics
Foucault's most important contribution to ethics is a theoretical framework he developed for historical times and places-Hellenistic Greece, Imperial Rome, and early Christianity. The same lens he used to uncover the ethical systems at work in the discourse of others Foucault uses to examine his own work also. It reveals a normative ethics embedded in his material with three dimensions: (a) the importance of reflective and nonjudgmental communica…
The humanist turn in Foucault's rhetoric of inquiry
The authors discuss the relationship of Michel Foucault's work to the humanist perspective. They argue that Fisher is inaccurate in characterizing Foucault as an “anti‐humanist.” Instead, Foucault is properly read as sympathetic to the humanist perspective, and his concept of the “statement” and method of critique turn the humanist perspective away from an institutionalized, perhaps ideological, form that legitimizes the extant social order, and …
Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language
Public memorializing in postmodernity
This essay argues for a reading of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse. Beginning with a contrast of modernist and postmodern rhetorics of architecture, the authors suggest that the Memorial reflects the typical gestures of postmodern architecture. Moreover, they suggest that a consideration of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a postmodern discourse accounts for differences among other critical accounts, highlights the Memoria…
Contested histories of rhetoric
This essay argues that the two principal modes of organizing rhetorical theories in histories of rhetoric, according to influence or systems, are problematic. Influence and systems histories frequently mask or distort the particularity of rhetoric's history, and they implicitly disenfranchise future retheorizing of rhetoric. These problems result from the preservative and progressive politics that inhere in the ostensibly neutral organizational d…
Disciplining the feminine
This essay, positioned at the nexus of several intellectual projects, including the rhetoric of inquiry, the ideological turn, critical rhetoric, and feminist theory, provides a case study of some of the practices in the communication discipline that support a masculinist ideology. The authors examine the ideological issues and practices implicated in a 1992 report on “Active Prolific Female Scholars in Communication” and in their effort to publi…
Foucault's Ethics
Foucault's most important contribution to ethics is a theoretical framework he developed for historical times and places-Hellenistic Greece, Imperial Rome, and early Christianity. The same lens he used to uncover the ethical systems at work in the discourse of others Foucault uses to examine his own work also. It reveals a normative ethics embedded in his material with three dimensions: (a) the importance of reflective and nonjudgmental communica…
Communication as Collective Memory
Mark(et)ing “The Handbook
Places of Public Memory
"Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside accident memorials that line America's highways, memory and place have always been deeply interconnected. This book investigates the intersections of memory and place through nine original essays written by leadin…
Rethinking the First World War
The article reviews several books including Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I & the Making of the Modern American Citizen, by Christopher Capozzola, Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War, by Kimberly Jensen and Dynamic of Destruction: Culture & Mass Killing in the First World War, by Alan Kramer
Mood of the Material
This essay explores the commemorative site of Fleury-devant-Douaumont (Fleury), a village destroyed during the battle of Verdun in 1916. We argue that Fleury offers a creative rhetoric of imagining otherwise by rendering a doubled demand on the imagination. It provokes visitors to attend to the fact of war's overwhelming destructiveness. And simultaneously, it urges them to imagine the counterfactual, the 'not having happened'-Fleury as a tiny an…
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