Ekaterina V Haskins
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaterina V Haskins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaterina V |
| FAMILY NAME | Haskins |
| SIGNATURE | HASKINS E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Making Photography Matter
Book Review| June 01 2018 Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. By Cara A. Finnegan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015; pp. 256. $50.00 cloth. Ekaterina V. Haskins Ekaterina V. Haskins Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affair…
Aristotle
A prominent ancient Greek intellectual, Aristotle not only contributed to multiple fields of philosophical inquiry but also established a systematic conceptual framework for thinking and talking about natural and social phenomena. In particular, his teachings on logic, dialectic, and rhetoric have become integral to Western intellectual tradition and they continue to stimulate contemporary debates about the role of language and persuasion in scie…
Plato
Plato is considered one of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers. In fact, he is responsible for inventing the language of philosophy as a discursive practice at a time when the meaning of “philosophy” was still in flux. Plato never defined philosophy directly and unambiguously; instead, he wrote dramatic dialogues that featured his intellectual hero, Socrates, as the main character. Plato's dialogues were written over the span of half a centur…
Locating memory in an age of dislocation
From the outset, I must admit the sheer impossibility of surveying the vast landscape of memory studies, even if I were to narrow down my scope to “culture” and “difference.” It seems much less dau
Accidental tourists
How a memorial impacts public memory depends not just on its symbolic appeals but also on how it gains the attention of visitors and how those appeals convert visitors into engaged participants. Although numerous studies have explored visitors’ performances at sites of memory, this scholarship has largely overlooked what we call “the accidental tourist,” the would-be visitor who had not planned to visit a site of memory but ended up doing so beca…
Popular Memories
Popular Memories
Ambient Commons
Ekaterina HaskinsRensselaer Polytechnic Institute© 2015, Ekaterina Haskins
Public Forgetting
Between Archive and Participation
In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today's remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern “archival memory” as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strength…
Metonymy and the Metropolis
This article argues that contemporary portrayals of cityscapes on television create a “postcard effect,” a way of seeing that affords the viewer the pleasureofa tourist gaze. This disposition both reflects and legitimizes a fragmented experience of visiting a location without immersing oneself in the intricacies of its politics and geography. Building on critical urban studies, film theory, semiotics, and critical ethnography, this article analyz…
Philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural memory
The rivalry between Plato and Isocrates has begun to receive scholarly attention, primarily because both Plato and Isocrates used the term philosophia to describe their occupation. However, the efforts to distinguish their respective uses and definitions of the term typically ignore the performative dimension of both Plato's and Isocrates’ writings and their relationship with other discourses of Athenian public culture. This essay argues that bot…
Memory, Visibility, and Public Space
This article explores three loci of commemoration of 9/11 in New York City: the street memorial exemplified by makeshift shrines, posters of the missing, and graffiti; the museum installations that reflected on these street memorials and on the media's role in our collective experience of 9/11 and its aftermath; and the contested site of the permanent memorial at Ground Zero. The authors argue that both street memorials and museum exhibitions exe…
Pop (Up) Goes the Blind Date
In this textual analysis of the reality dating show Blind Date, the authors challenge the recent cultural studies scholarship that champions textual openness of reality television. In particular, the authors demonstrate how the pop-up supertext in Blind Date undermines the counterhegemonic potential of this show with regard to gender, class, and ethnic representations. The authors find that the interplay between the comic supertext and the dating…
Put Your Stamp on History
This essay offers a reading of one of the largest public commemorative projects in recent U.S. history, the Celebrate the Century stamp program, in order to explore the ambivalent potential of collective memory in postmodernity. Celebrate the Century exhibits the tension between aesthetic and political heterogeneity, on the one hand, and the tendency toward commodification and political amnesia, on the other. The essay develops by considering the…
Rhetoric between orality and literacy
The essay argues for a reconsideration of the role of the "literate revolution" in the disciplining of rhetorical practice in the fourth century BCE. Specifically, the argument addresses the tension between oral memory and literate rationality in Isocrates and Aristotle to illustrate two divergent possibilities of appropriating oral linguistic resources of a culture. Aristotle's literate classification of endoxa (received opinions) and pisteis (p…
Memory, Visibility, and Public Space
This article explores three loci of commemoration of 9/11 in New York City: the street memorial exemplified by makeshift shrines, posters of the missing, and graffiti; the museum installations that reflected on these street memorials and on the media's role in our collective experience of 9/11 and its aftermath; and the contested site of the permanent memorial at Ground Zero. The authors argue that both street memorials and museum exhibitions exe…
Accidental tourists
How a memorial impacts public memory depends not just on its symbolic appeals but also on how it gains the attention of visitors and how those appeals convert visitors into engaged participants. Although numerous studies have explored visitors’ performances at sites of memory, this scholarship has largely overlooked what we call “the accidental tourist,” the would-be visitor who had not planned to visit a site of memory but ended up doing so beca…
Put Your Stamp on History
This essay offers a reading of one of the largest public commemorative projects in recent U.S. history, the Celebrate the Century stamp program, in order to explore the ambivalent potential of collective memory in postmodernity. Celebrate the Century exhibits the tension between aesthetic and political heterogeneity, on the one hand, and the tendency toward commodification and political amnesia, on the other. The essay develops by considering the…
Rhetoric between orality and literacy
The essay argues for a reconsideration of the role of the "literate revolution" in the disciplining of rhetorical practice in the fourth century BCE. Specifically, the argument addresses the tension between oral memory and literate rationality in Isocrates and Aristotle to illustrate two divergent possibilities of appropriating oral linguistic resources of a culture. Aristotle's literate classification of endoxa (received opinions) and pisteis (p…
Metonymy and the Metropolis
This article argues that contemporary portrayals of cityscapes on television create a “postcard effect,” a way of seeing that affords the viewer the pleasureofa tourist gaze. This disposition both reflects and legitimizes a fragmented experience of visiting a location without immersing oneself in the intricacies of its politics and geography. Building on critical urban studies, film theory, semiotics, and critical ethnography, this article analyz…
Pop (Up) Goes the Blind Date
In this textual analysis of the reality dating show Blind Date, the authors challenge the recent cultural studies scholarship that champions textual openness of reality television. In particular, the authors demonstrate how the pop-up supertext in Blind Date undermines the counterhegemonic potential of this show with regard to gender, class, and ethnic representations. The authors find that the interplay between the comic supertext and the dating…
Philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural memory
The rivalry between Plato and Isocrates has begun to receive scholarly attention, primarily because both Plato and Isocrates used the term philosophia to describe their occupation. However, the efforts to distinguish their respective uses and definitions of the term typically ignore the performative dimension of both Plato's and Isocrates’ writings and their relationship with other discourses of Athenian public culture. This essay argues that bot…
Rhetoric between orality and literacy
The essay argues for a reconsideration of the role of the "literate revolution" in the disciplining of rhetorical practice in the fourth century BCE. Specifically, the argument addresses the tension between oral memory and literate rationality in Isocrates and Aristotle to illustrate two divergent possibilities of appropriating oral linguistic resources of a culture. Aristotle's literate classification of endoxa (received opinions) and pisteis (p…
Memory, Visibility, and Public Space
This article explores three loci of commemoration of 9/11 in New York City: the street memorial exemplified by makeshift shrines, posters of the missing, and graffiti; the museum installations that reflected on these street memorials and on the media's role in our collective experience of 9/11 and its aftermath; and the contested site of the permanent memorial at Ground Zero. The authors argue that both street memorials and museum exhibitions exe…
Pop (Up) Goes the Blind Date
In this textual analysis of the reality dating show Blind Date, the authors challenge the recent cultural studies scholarship that champions textual openness of reality television. In particular, the authors demonstrate how the pop-up supertext in Blind Date undermines the counterhegemonic potential of this show with regard to gender, class, and ethnic representations. The authors find that the interplay between the comic supertext and the dating…
Put Your Stamp on History
This essay offers a reading of one of the largest public commemorative projects in recent U.S. history, the Celebrate the Century stamp program, in order to explore the ambivalent potential of collective memory in postmodernity. Celebrate the Century exhibits the tension between aesthetic and political heterogeneity, on the one hand, and the tendency toward commodification and political amnesia, on the other. The essay develops by considering the…
Metonymy and the Metropolis
This article argues that contemporary portrayals of cityscapes on television create a “postcard effect,” a way of seeing that affords the viewer the pleasureofa tourist gaze. This disposition both reflects and legitimizes a fragmented experience of visiting a location without immersing oneself in the intricacies of its politics and geography. Building on critical urban studies, film theory, semiotics, and critical ethnography, this article analyz…
Philosophy, rhetoric, and cultural memory
The rivalry between Plato and Isocrates has begun to receive scholarly attention, primarily because both Plato and Isocrates used the term philosophia to describe their occupation. However, the efforts to distinguish their respective uses and definitions of the term typically ignore the performative dimension of both Plato's and Isocrates’ writings and their relationship with other discourses of Athenian public culture. This essay argues that bot…
Between Archive and Participation
In sizing up the notion of public memory, rhetoricians would be remiss not to consider the increasing influence of new media on today's remembrance culture. This article addresses memorial functions of the internet in light of recent scholarly debates about virtues and drawbacks of modern “archival memory” as well as the paradoxical link between the contemporary public obsession with memory and the acceleration of amnesia. To explore the strength…
Public Forgetting
Popular Memories
Popular Memories
Ambient Commons
Ekaterina HaskinsRensselaer Polytechnic Institute© 2015, Ekaterina Haskins
Aristotle
A prominent ancient Greek intellectual, Aristotle not only contributed to multiple fields of philosophical inquiry but also established a systematic conceptual framework for thinking and talking about natural and social phenomena. In particular, his teachings on logic, dialectic, and rhetoric have become integral to Western intellectual tradition and they continue to stimulate contemporary debates about the role of language and persuasion in scie…
Plato
Plato is considered one of the greatest ancient Greek philosophers. In fact, he is responsible for inventing the language of philosophy as a discursive practice at a time when the meaning of “philosophy” was still in flux. Plato never defined philosophy directly and unambiguously; instead, he wrote dramatic dialogues that featured his intellectual hero, Socrates, as the main character. Plato's dialogues were written over the span of half a centur…
Locating memory in an age of dislocation
From the outset, I must admit the sheer impossibility of surveying the vast landscape of memory studies, even if I were to narrow down my scope to “culture” and “difference.” It seems much less dau
Accidental tourists
How a memorial impacts public memory depends not just on its symbolic appeals but also on how it gains the attention of visitors and how those appeals convert visitors into engaged participants. Although numerous studies have explored visitors’ performances at sites of memory, this scholarship has largely overlooked what we call “the accidental tourist,” the would-be visitor who had not planned to visit a site of memory but ended up doing so beca…
Making Photography Matter
Book Review| June 01 2018 Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression Making Photography Matter: A Viewer's History from the Civil War to the Great Depression. By Cara A. Finnegan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015; pp. 256. $50.00 cloth. Ekaterina V. Haskins Ekaterina V. Haskins Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affair…
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