“Anarchy in the USA”
Win McNamee’s Capitol Riot Photographs and the Rhetoric of Desecration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22248688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Benjamin Crosby (Brigham Young University), Isaac James Richards (0000-0003-0828-9307, Brigham Young University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-229 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-13 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the History of Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2687-8003 • E-ISSN: 2687-8011 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0217 |
| OpenAlex | W4388235676 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The almost universal response to the US Capitol riot of January 6, 2021, has been righteous indignation. Democrats and Republicans alike have called it a defilement or a desecration of the nation’s sacred house. This article adds to the literature on Capitol riot rhetoric by proposing a theory of desecration as a rhetoric in motu because desecration enacts movement across a sacred boundary. We outline key features of a rhetoric of desecration and analyze Win McNamee’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Capitol riot photographs to illuminate why the riot aftermath has elevated legal action to the status of spiritual warfare
Art · Indignation · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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