Semisensical ramblings by David W. Rick
In the opening of her piece, L’Eplattenier raises the issue of research and archival methodology as lacking sufficient discussion within the discipline of rhetoric, asking, “Why do we as a discipline rarely talk about the methods we use to access our information?” (68) In answering this, L’Eplattenier explores the roles of rhetoric historians and how […]
In Linda Ferreira-Buckley’s piece “Rescuing the Archives from Focault,” she reviews the trend toward regarding the archive with skepticism, citing the progression from a classical understanding of history as a subjective discipline to the 19th Century treatment of history as an “exact science.” She notes that while this problem is valid, the archive—far from reinforcing […]
Reflections on Victor Villanueva’s “On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism,” “‘Memoria’ is a Friend of Ours: On the Discourse of Color,” and “Colonial Memory, Colonial Research: A Preamble to a Case Study.” I will note, I broadly consider myself a person of progressive thinking—progressive in the contemporary rather than 20th Century context, I note—who […]
A reading response to: Harriet Bradley, “The Seduction of the Archive: Voices Lost and Found” Heidi McKee and James E. Porter, “The Ethics of Archival Research” Barbie Zelizer, “Reading Against the Grain: The Shape of Memory” Thomas Osborne, “The Ordinariness of the Archive” Barbara Biesecker, “Of Historocity, Rhetoric: The Archive as Scene of Invention” As […]