Brent Yergensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4620556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brent Yergensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brent |
| FAMILY NAME | Yergensen |
| SIGNATURE | YERGENSEN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Tyler |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4834-8175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arthurian Sacrificial Meaning in the Western Legacy: Death and Rhetorical Leadership in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Death, racial violence, and communal trauma: Emmett till’s open casket as actionable rhetoric and negative dialectics
The futurologist’s priestly voice: Rhetorics of Technology and the Pursuit of Immortality
Weaponized Domesticity: The Final Girl Archetype as Red Riding Hood in Contemporary Horror
The Batman and the redemption of first responders: The culmination of a rhetoric of rescue during Covid-19, Trump and protest
The timing of Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2022) situated the film as a symbol of and response to the social troubles that resulted from the political unrest in 2020 and 2021, presenting solution-driven rhetoric amidst the numerous public crises in American discourse and identity. Captured and represented in his opening prologue speech in juxtaposition to his rhetorical culmination speech, Batman’s orations mirror his own arc and the politically pre…
Marginalizing mortality: The fight against death as the communicative cultural condition
Rhetoric is intertwined with imagined and hypothesized conceptions of the future. An intellectual and discursive tool that is permanently engaged in our planning against future exigencies and, importantly, designed through invention and operating through delivery, rhetoric is an organic response in the contemporary human effort to elude death. Our current, mediated human condition is a unifying cultural effort to marginalize death from both the m…
Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Digital Theology: The Visceral Narratology of Metaphor and Personification
Demonstrating the contemporary religious aesthetic amid the growth of digital theological productions, the short film production initiatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are noteworthy considering their outreach scope and production quality. These elements of a theological aesthetic can be understood through Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics due to the theory’s open-ended prescription for narrative didactics, which assist…
Popular narratology as the swivel of death’s door: Rhetoric as transition and transcendence to life’s end
The history of the two primary institutions of thought and belief, scientific philosophy and theology, center their discourses on addressing the human inevitability of death. Crucial is how moments of death, as rhetorical situations that enable narrative and technical forms for assigning and responding to death, manifest in rhetorics that work to transition humanity away from fear and are followed by either rhetorics of transcendence of or comfor…
The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema: Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror
By connecting Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to Edvard Munch’s concepts of artistic form, this study demonstrates the horror aesthetic in cinematic narrative structures that culminate toward discomforting endings. Negative dialectics is applicable as a cinema didactic via magnification of difficulty through narrative endings that depict elusive villains
Music technologies and AirPods: Considering Theodor Adorno as media ecologist
When new technologies emerge, they inevitably bring to mind many of the same questions that media scholars have been asking for decades. In this study, we will analyse Apple AirPods through a theoretical framework based in the writings of media ecologists like Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, as well as media theorist Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno is included here because very few articles in media ecology scholarship discuss his cont…
The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema: Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror
By connecting Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to Edvard Munch’s concepts of artistic form, this study demonstrates the horror aesthetic in cinematic narrative structures that culminate toward discomforting endings. Negative dialectics is applicable as a cinema didactic via magnification of difficulty through narrative endings that depict elusive villains
Music technologies and AirPods: Considering Theodor Adorno as media ecologist
When new technologies emerge, they inevitably bring to mind many of the same questions that media scholars have been asking for decades. In this study, we will analyse Apple AirPods through a theoretical framework based in the writings of media ecologists like Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, as well as media theorist Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno is included here because very few articles in media ecology scholarship discuss his cont…
Music technologies and AirPods: Considering Theodor Adorno as media ecologist
When new technologies emerge, they inevitably bring to mind many of the same questions that media scholars have been asking for decades. In this study, we will analyse Apple AirPods through a theoretical framework based in the writings of media ecologists like Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, as well as media theorist Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno is included here because very few articles in media ecology scholarship discuss his cont…
The Batman and the redemption of first responders: The culmination of a rhetoric of rescue during Covid-19, Trump and protest
The timing of Matt Reeves’s The Batman (2022) situated the film as a symbol of and response to the social troubles that resulted from the political unrest in 2020 and 2021, presenting solution-driven rhetoric amidst the numerous public crises in American discourse and identity. Captured and represented in his opening prologue speech in juxtaposition to his rhetorical culmination speech, Batman’s orations mirror his own arc and the politically pre…
Marginalizing mortality: The fight against death as the communicative cultural condition
Rhetoric is intertwined with imagined and hypothesized conceptions of the future. An intellectual and discursive tool that is permanently engaged in our planning against future exigencies and, importantly, designed through invention and operating through delivery, rhetoric is an organic response in the contemporary human effort to elude death. Our current, mediated human condition is a unifying cultural effort to marginalize death from both the m…
Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Digital Theology: The Visceral Narratology of Metaphor and Personification
Demonstrating the contemporary religious aesthetic amid the growth of digital theological productions, the short film production initiatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are noteworthy considering their outreach scope and production quality. These elements of a theological aesthetic can be understood through Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics due to the theory’s open-ended prescription for narrative didactics, which assist…
Popular narratology as the swivel of death’s door: Rhetoric as transition and transcendence to life’s end
The history of the two primary institutions of thought and belief, scientific philosophy and theology, center their discourses on addressing the human inevitability of death. Crucial is how moments of death, as rhetorical situations that enable narrative and technical forms for assigning and responding to death, manifest in rhetorics that work to transition humanity away from fear and are followed by either rhetorics of transcendence of or comfor…
The Elusive Killer in Didactic Cinema: Conceptualizing Munch-ian Art and Adorno’s Negative Dialectics in Horror
By connecting Theodor Adorno’s negative dialectics to Edvard Munch’s concepts of artistic form, this study demonstrates the horror aesthetic in cinematic narrative structures that culminate toward discomforting endings. Negative dialectics is applicable as a cinema didactic via magnification of difficulty through narrative endings that depict elusive villains
Weaponized Domesticity: The Final Girl Archetype as Red Riding Hood in Contemporary Horror
Arthurian Sacrificial Meaning in the Western Legacy: Death and Rhetorical Leadership in Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Death, racial violence, and communal trauma: Emmett till’s open casket as actionable rhetoric and negative dialectics
The futurologist’s priestly voice: Rhetorics of Technology and the Pursuit of Immortality
Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Rhetoric (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dialectic (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)