rhetoric and sensation

a tumblr approach to the #rsa15 seminar on rhetoric and sensation by kendall gerdes

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Fry’s got microwave/popcorn induced synaesthesia.

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Dictionary.com’s word of the day!

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José Esteban Muñoz, opening (invocation) to his book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity

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Spotted in a bathroom stall at NYU. #JoseEstebanMunoz #queerfuturity #disidentifications #queer #graffiti #politics

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What's the feeling of sensation? It's hope: the feeling that something else can happen.

Nate Stormer

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But of all this daily drama of the body there is no record. People write always of the doings of the mind; the thoughts that come to it; its noble plans; how the mind has civilized the universe. They show it ignoring the body in the philosopher’s turret; or kicking the body, like an old leather football, across leagues of snow and desert in the pursuit of conquest or discovery. Those great wars which the body wages with the mind a slave to it, in the solitude of the bedroom against the assault of fever or the oncome of melancholia, are neglected. Nor is the reason far to seek. To look these things squarely in the face would need the courage of a lion tamer; a robust philosophy; a reason rooted in the bowels of the earth.

Virginia Woolf, On Being Ill

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(via The Transparent Traveler)

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Mary Carruthers.

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Mark Bradley.

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(via Amazon.com: Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (The Senses in Antiquity) (9781844655625): Shane Butler, Alex C. Purves: Books)

This is a much scarier book cover than I anticipated.

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Matthew Roller.

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The Encyclopedia of Rhetoric is a comprehensive survey of the latest research--as well as the foundational teachings--in this broad field. Featuring 150 original, signed articles by leading scholars from many different fields of study it brings together knowledge from classics, philosophy, literature, literary theory, cultural studies, speech and communications.

You can search a lot of the text on Google Books!

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(via In Ancient Rome, Purple Dye Was Made from Snails | Smart News | Smithsonian)

This video looks like a cartoon version? but it’s definitely not the gross one Jennifer mentioned.

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(via Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal)

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(via Tracking Colour, The polychromy of Greek and Roman sculpture)

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[P]ink happens when the red and violet sides [of a rainbow] get together, but they don’t get together — which makes pink an act of wishful thinking, or, to put it bluntly — pink is a made up color.

DiscoveryNews: Is Pink the Next Pluto?

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(via Snowblink - Blue Moon - YouTube)