Luke Winslow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4929644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Winslow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Winslow |
| SIGNATURE | WINSLOW L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8602-5510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics for Losers
The rise of illiberal structural and behavioral political cultures prompts communication scholars to consider alternative discursive models for maintaining healthy liberal democracy and promoting productive public deliberation. Our essay offers a novel contribution to that end. We introduce sports tanking as an intentional, systematic, and strategic practice of fielding non-contending athletic teams to lose games in the short-term to improve the …
Greater than fear”
Created by street artist Shepard Fairey, the protest poster, “We the People are Greater than Fear,” emerged as a powerful visual response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Though celebrated as a progressive symbol of inclusion, we argue the poster, perhaps unwittingly, reinforces some of the very prejudices it seeks to confront by associating Muslimness with suspicion, foreignness, and fear. Using “Greater than Fear” as a case study, this ess…
Oligarchy in America
Swag, Social Media, and the Rhetoric of Style in College Athletic-Recruitment Discourse
Style—or the aesthetic dimensions of public presentation—is a dominant mode of symbolic expression. However, no one has explored how style functions as a coherent and generalizable symbol system influencing public conversations about athletic recruitment. The purpose of this essay is to fill this gap by developing a critical framework for theorizing the rhetoric of style in athletic recruitment discourse and significantly, how this is done throug…
Good critics, good criticism
As symbolic production has eclipsed critical consumption, teaching critical communication methods is marked by challenges and opportunities. In this essay, I describe the impact of a critical-pedagogical incongruity on our discipline’s ability to fulfill its vocational and civic potential. I trace the confluence of historical, institutional, and economic factors contributing to our discipline’s critical-pedagogical challenges. And I consider how …
The Rhetorical Quadrilateral
Since the critical turn in the 1980s, rhetoric has maintained its methodological legitimacy by emphasizing the critic’s reflexivity. But complicated questions have emerged related to teaching rhetorical methods, critical autobiography, and standards of critical judgment. This essay explores those issues by synthesizing the Wesleyan Quadrilateral’s reason, tradition, scripture, and experience with what we introduce as the Rhetorical Quadrilateral.…
Ecclesiastes and the Rhetoric of Radical Agnosticism
Employing the critical tools of religious communication scholarship, this essay explores Belief in a Just World Theory as a potent discursive source for unquestioned and oppressive norms of thought and speech. For many social scientists, Belief in a Just World Theory is an elegant, parsimonious, and compelling tool for exploring the sources of our most intractable social challenges. And yet, it seems our world maintains no homeostatic orientation…
Global lake response to the recent warming hiatus
Understanding temporal variability in lake warming rates over decadal scales is important for understanding observed change in aquatic systems. We analyzed a global dataset of lake surface water temperature observations (1985−2009) to examine how lake temperatures responded to a recent global air temperature warming hiatus (1998−2012). Prior to the hiatus (1985−1998), surface water temperatures significantly increased at an average rate of 0.532 …
The neoliberal conquest of the Supreme Court
Neoliberalism is an anti-democratic ideology. It takes decisions about the allocation of scarce resources out of the hands of public institutions and places them in the hands of private actors. Despite a distrust of democratic institutions immanent to neoliberalism, its reach within those same institutions reveals potent ideological lessons. Even the courts, ostensibly a bulwark against anti-democratic impulses, have incorporated neoliberal argum…
Pastors of profit
This essay explores neoliberal capital accumulation by analyzing the workplace chaplaincy service Marketplace Ministries. By extending the value of traditional chaplains to the modern workplace, Marketplace Ministries discourse illuminates a discursive pattern that secular client-companies can employ to acquire the affective allegiance of their front-line employees. For these client-companies, affective allegiance activates a set of internal moti…
Doing More with Less
The Undeserving Professor
The perceived social value of higher education in the United States and the political will to fund it represents a fascinating paradox. This article explores one way that paradox is reconciled. I look closely at the emergence of a specific educational critique in the discourse of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The critique encourages a neoliberal reinvention of higher education. It does so by constructing symbolic representations that align …
Comforting the Comfortable
The United States prides itself on being a classless society where economic determinism can be transcended by the right amount of merit, determination, and luck. At the same time, however, the U.S. has the second highest wealth inequality rate of any developed nation and the second lowest intergenerational mobility. Explaining the contradiction between the myth of the American Dream and the economic reality is no easy task. This article attempts …
Comforting the Comfortable
The United States prides itself on being a classless society where economic determinism can be transcended by the right amount of merit, determination, and luck. At the same time, however, the U.S. has the second highest wealth inequality rate of any developed nation and the second lowest intergenerational mobility. Explaining the contradiction between the myth of the American Dream and the economic reality is no easy task. This article attempts …
The Undeserving Professor
The perceived social value of higher education in the United States and the political will to fund it represents a fascinating paradox. This article explores one way that paradox is reconciled. I look closely at the emergence of a specific educational critique in the discourse of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The critique encourages a neoliberal reinvention of higher education. It does so by constructing symbolic representations that align …
Pastors of profit
This essay explores neoliberal capital accumulation by analyzing the workplace chaplaincy service Marketplace Ministries. By extending the value of traditional chaplains to the modern workplace, Marketplace Ministries discourse illuminates a discursive pattern that secular client-companies can employ to acquire the affective allegiance of their front-line employees. For these client-companies, affective allegiance activates a set of internal moti…
Comforting the Comfortable
The United States prides itself on being a classless society where economic determinism can be transcended by the right amount of merit, determination, and luck. At the same time, however, the U.S. has the second highest wealth inequality rate of any developed nation and the second lowest intergenerational mobility. Explaining the contradiction between the myth of the American Dream and the economic reality is no easy task. This article attempts …
The Undeserving Professor
The perceived social value of higher education in the United States and the political will to fund it represents a fascinating paradox. This article explores one way that paradox is reconciled. I look closely at the emergence of a specific educational critique in the discourse of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The critique encourages a neoliberal reinvention of higher education. It does so by constructing symbolic representations that align …
Doing More with Less
Pastors of profit
This essay explores neoliberal capital accumulation by analyzing the workplace chaplaincy service Marketplace Ministries. By extending the value of traditional chaplains to the modern workplace, Marketplace Ministries discourse illuminates a discursive pattern that secular client-companies can employ to acquire the affective allegiance of their front-line employees. For these client-companies, affective allegiance activates a set of internal moti…
Global lake response to the recent warming hiatus
Understanding temporal variability in lake warming rates over decadal scales is important for understanding observed change in aquatic systems. We analyzed a global dataset of lake surface water temperature observations (1985−2009) to examine how lake temperatures responded to a recent global air temperature warming hiatus (1998−2012). Prior to the hiatus (1985−1998), surface water temperatures significantly increased at an average rate of 0.532 …
The neoliberal conquest of the Supreme Court
Neoliberalism is an anti-democratic ideology. It takes decisions about the allocation of scarce resources out of the hands of public institutions and places them in the hands of private actors. Despite a distrust of democratic institutions immanent to neoliberalism, its reach within those same institutions reveals potent ideological lessons. Even the courts, ostensibly a bulwark against anti-democratic impulses, have incorporated neoliberal argum…
Ecclesiastes and the Rhetoric of Radical Agnosticism
Employing the critical tools of religious communication scholarship, this essay explores Belief in a Just World Theory as a potent discursive source for unquestioned and oppressive norms of thought and speech. For many social scientists, Belief in a Just World Theory is an elegant, parsimonious, and compelling tool for exploring the sources of our most intractable social challenges. And yet, it seems our world maintains no homeostatic orientation…
Oligarchy in America
Swag, Social Media, and the Rhetoric of Style in College Athletic-Recruitment Discourse
Style—or the aesthetic dimensions of public presentation—is a dominant mode of symbolic expression. However, no one has explored how style functions as a coherent and generalizable symbol system influencing public conversations about athletic recruitment. The purpose of this essay is to fill this gap by developing a critical framework for theorizing the rhetoric of style in athletic recruitment discourse and significantly, how this is done throug…
Good critics, good criticism
As symbolic production has eclipsed critical consumption, teaching critical communication methods is marked by challenges and opportunities. In this essay, I describe the impact of a critical-pedagogical incongruity on our discipline’s ability to fulfill its vocational and civic potential. I trace the confluence of historical, institutional, and economic factors contributing to our discipline’s critical-pedagogical challenges. And I consider how …
The Rhetorical Quadrilateral
Since the critical turn in the 1980s, rhetoric has maintained its methodological legitimacy by emphasizing the critic’s reflexivity. But complicated questions have emerged related to teaching rhetorical methods, critical autobiography, and standards of critical judgment. This essay explores those issues by synthesizing the Wesleyan Quadrilateral’s reason, tradition, scripture, and experience with what we introduce as the Rhetorical Quadrilateral.…
Politics for Losers
The rise of illiberal structural and behavioral political cultures prompts communication scholars to consider alternative discursive models for maintaining healthy liberal democracy and promoting productive public deliberation. Our essay offers a novel contribution to that end. We introduce sports tanking as an intentional, systematic, and strategic practice of fielding non-contending athletic teams to lose games in the short-term to improve the …
Greater than fear”
Created by street artist Shepard Fairey, the protest poster, “We the People are Greater than Fear,” emerged as a powerful visual response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Though celebrated as a progressive symbol of inclusion, we argue the poster, perhaps unwittingly, reinforces some of the very prejudices it seeks to confront by associating Muslimness with suspicion, foreignness, and fear. Using “Greater than Fear” as a case study, this ess…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Rhetoric (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)