Jan 25, Jan 30: From Foucault to Mao
Dear All Good People,
This is placeholder post (to become real text soon) with questions that may guide our discussion today, as well as a link to the workspace we started last week and will bring to culmination on Tuesday (Jan. 30):
And, the workspace link.
-Prof. Graban
This is placeholder post (to become real text soon) with questions that may guide our discussion today, as well as a link to the workspace we started last week and will bring to culmination on Tuesday (Jan. 30):
- Lyon and Olson: What are all the ways they define (implicitly or explicitly) “human rights rhetoric”? All the ways they justify its importance as a discourse?
- Lyon and Olson: what’s the relationship between human rights and symbols (symbolic representations, a la Burke)? Between witnessing and symbolic representation?
- Lyon and Olson: What are some risks and limits of a rhetorical approach to human rights? Relationship between HR rhetoric and notions of “power” (207)?
- Foucault: What’s the relationship between authorship and symbols (symbolic representations, a la Burke)? Between authorship and witnessing?
- Foucault: What are some problems with authorship? Some risks and limits of authorial identification?
- Foucault: Relationship between authorship and power? Between power and author-function?
- How do Lyon/Olson and Foucault build away from Burke’s “identification” as a driving/guiding force for textual interpretation?
- How much does/should an author really control the final product of his/her work?
And, the workspace link.
-Prof. Graban