Rhetoricity
Rhetoricity is a quasi-academic podcast that draws on rhetoric, theory, weird sound effects, and the insights of a lot of other people. It's something that's a little strange and, with luck, a little interesting. The podcast's description will evolve along with it. Most episodes feature interviews with rhetorically oriented rhetoric and writing scholars.
The podcast is a project of Eric Detweiler, an assistant professor in the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University. If you are interested in more information, you can get in touch by using the contact information included on his website or sending a direct message to @RhetCast on Twitter.
Transcripts are available for some episodes. Click "Episode Transcript" link at the end of individual episode descriptions to access the corresponding transcript. If you would like a transcript of an episode that doesn't appear to have one, feel free to get in touch.
Rhetoricity has received support from a grant from the Humanities Media Project.
This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This episode of Rhetoricity comes to you from the 2016 Modern Language Association Convention in Austin, Texas.
At the convention, I spoke with the University of Southern California's Virginia Kuhn. Dr. Kuhn is an associate professor in the Media Arts + Practice Division of USC's School of Cinematic Arts. In this interview, we discuss three of Dr. Kuhn's recent and ongoing projects: First, the Library Machine, which was until recently known as "LibViz." That project is the third case study in a recent article coauthored by Dr. Kuhn: "Coping with the Big Data Dump: Towards a Framework for Enhanced Information Representation." From there, we turn to the Video Analysis Tableau, an online toolkit that makes a vast archive of digital video accessible and searchable for a wide variety of users and uses. Finally, we discuss Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies, an 2015 Parlor Press anthology that Dr. Kuhn co-edited.
Along the way, we discuss cinematic conventions, gender, Afrofuturism, YouTube, and how rhetoric and rhetoricians figure in to Dr. Kuhn's various projects.
This episode includes a number of clips and samples from other sources:
- "Time Travel" by Jasmine Jordan
- "interactive ui in minority report"
- The Wizard of Oz
- "Not in Kansas Anymore"
- Ghosts of the Abyss
- Inkheart
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Matrix
- "Baby Laughing Hysterically at Ripping Paper (Original)"
- "Charlie bit my finger - again !"
- "David After Dentist"
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
- The 85th Academy Awards
- Lincoln
- Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer
- Silver Linings Playbook
- To the People of the United States
- "I'm not a Doctor, but I play one on TV Commercial 1986 with Peter Bergman Vicks Formula 44"
- "Pilot" - House M.D.
- The Last Angel of History trailer
- Sucker Punch trailer
- "A Virtual Friend" by Paris La Nuit
- Various clips from freesound.org