Jessy J Ohl
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessy J Ohl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ohl |
| SIGNATURE | OHL J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship
Increased controversy over the truth and meaning of the past has fueled an economic surge in public memory spurring competition between universities and cities for material and symbolic resources. Relations between “town and gown” are often fraught with distrust and sabotage as university administrators and government officials carve out their own memory territories for profit. As rhetorical scholars, educators, and practitioners critically engag…
Living photography and anamorphosis as equipment for public dying in a pandemic
This essay consists of a critical and creative encounter with WWI visual propagandist Arthur Mole’s “living photography,” a technique to create images by configuring thousands of subjects to form silhouettes of culturally relevant symbols only discernable from an elevated vantage point. I argue that Mole’s visual rhetoric offers important equipment for public dying, which in this case refers to rhetorical resources for managing collective mortali…
Seeing World War I and Poster Propaganda with Fresh Eyes
Persuasive Weapons: WWI Propaganda Posters is an ongoing digital exhibition and collection hosted by the University of Alabama to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Armistice signing. This collaborative project distinguishes itself from other publicly available collections by providing detailed compositional interpretations for each poster that situate the images historically and locate salient persuasive strategies. The following Repo…
Traumatic encounters with Frank Mechau's Dangers of the Mail
This essay examines Frank Mechau's infamous mural Dangers of the Mail as an opportunity to theorize the force of memories contingent upon immediate sensual encounters that operate largely irrespective of actual historical occurrences. Through an analysis of public documents, archival material from the 1930s and early 2000s, and two separate tours of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in 2015 and 2016, we argue Mechau's Dangers of the …
In Pursuit of Light War in Libya
This essay examines President Barack Obama’s March 28, 2011 address on the war in Libya to theorize a shift in twenty-first-century war rhetoric in which violence is insulated from critique through the numbing of public sensation. In contrast to traditional persuasive appeals aimed at securing collective participation and approval for war, Obama’s oratory is characteristic of “light war,” a mode of conflict that flows more freely by placing few d…
Nothing to See or Fear
This essay theorizes a transformation in twenty-first-century war rhetoric in which obstructions in public sensation insulate war from opposition. In contrast to overt persuasive appeals for the mass mobilization of society characteristic of “total war,” “light war” is a mode of violence that operates more freely by placing fewer demands on public reception, participation, and approval. Through an analysis of U.S. drone imagery between 2008 and 2…
We are still in the desert’
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
Seeing World War I and Poster Propaganda with Fresh Eyes
Persuasive Weapons: WWI Propaganda Posters is an ongoing digital exhibition and collection hosted by the University of Alabama to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Armistice signing. This collaborative project distinguishes itself from other publicly available collections by providing detailed compositional interpretations for each poster that situate the images historically and locate salient persuasive strategies. The following Repo…
We are still in the desert’
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
We are still in the desert’
This paper examines the territorial organization of the US military through the lens of diaspora studies in order to explore how the dynamism of identity is implicated by the constant movement between divergent social and material territories. We contend that military identity is subjected to diasporic intersections, which are moments where identity is tethered to multiple geographies simultaneously. Through an analysis of widely circulated Weste…
Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens
Part 1 of this manuscript is a dramatization of five rhetorical scenes that take the Occupy phenomenon as a moment to explore features of contemporary social protest and change. Drawing on rhetorical field notes collected over the first two weeks of Occupy Lincoln in Nebraska, we identify how historical tensions between activism and deliberation were both complicated and reasserted as the Occupy moment became a movement. The rhetorical scenes par…
Nothing to See or Fear
This essay theorizes a transformation in twenty-first-century war rhetoric in which obstructions in public sensation insulate war from opposition. In contrast to overt persuasive appeals for the mass mobilization of society characteristic of “total war,” “light war” is a mode of violence that operates more freely by placing fewer demands on public reception, participation, and approval. Through an analysis of U.S. drone imagery between 2008 and 2…
In Pursuit of Light War in Libya
This essay examines President Barack Obama’s March 28, 2011 address on the war in Libya to theorize a shift in twenty-first-century war rhetoric in which violence is insulated from critique through the numbing of public sensation. In contrast to traditional persuasive appeals aimed at securing collective participation and approval for war, Obama’s oratory is characteristic of “light war,” a mode of conflict that flows more freely by placing few d…
Traumatic encounters with Frank Mechau's Dangers of the Mail
This essay examines Frank Mechau's infamous mural Dangers of the Mail as an opportunity to theorize the force of memories contingent upon immediate sensual encounters that operate largely irrespective of actual historical occurrences. Through an analysis of public documents, archival material from the 1930s and early 2000s, and two separate tours of the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building in 2015 and 2016, we argue Mechau's Dangers of the …
Seeing World War I and Poster Propaganda with Fresh Eyes
Persuasive Weapons: WWI Propaganda Posters is an ongoing digital exhibition and collection hosted by the University of Alabama to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Armistice signing. This collaborative project distinguishes itself from other publicly available collections by providing detailed compositional interpretations for each poster that situate the images historically and locate salient persuasive strategies. The following Repo…
Living photography and anamorphosis as equipment for public dying in a pandemic
This essay consists of a critical and creative encounter with WWI visual propagandist Arthur Mole’s “living photography,” a technique to create images by configuring thousands of subjects to form silhouettes of culturally relevant symbols only discernable from an elevated vantage point. I argue that Mole’s visual rhetoric offers important equipment for public dying, which in this case refers to rhetorical resources for managing collective mortali…
Town/gown hostilities and memory entrepreneurship
Increased controversy over the truth and meaning of the past has fueled an economic surge in public memory spurring competition between universities and cities for material and symbolic resources. Relations between “town and gown” are often fraught with distrust and sabotage as university administrators and government officials carve out their own memory territories for profit. As rhetorical scholars, educators, and practitioners critically engag…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Rhetorical question (4 works)