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Author Archives: Luke Ford
How Bodies Read and Write: Dostoevsky’s Demons and Coetzee’s Master of Petersburg
Michael Kochin wrote a chapter in the 2013 book, Dostoevsky’s Political Thought: The writer must give up his soul in order to write. He must give up his soul to become the body writing. To write Stavrogin, then, the writer … Continue reading
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From Argument To Assertion
Michael S. Kochin writes in Argumentation 23, No. 3 (August 2009).: There are, however, two fundamental rhetorical difficulties with laying out one’s premises, reasoning, and conclusions. Since arguments are anticlimactic if they are explicit, the speaker who is excessively explicit … Continue reading
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Trust & Evidence on the Internet
Michael S. Kochin published this essay in Rhêtorikê: Revista Digital de Retórica 0 (March 2008): First, newspapers and television don’t have footnotes. Even newspaper science reporting and editorials, both of which almost always rely on other reporting, do not use … Continue reading
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Donald Trump – The President Of Vice (12-4-24)
01:00 Vice is bad, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/opinion/donald-trump-vice-voters.html03:00 Commentary mag: There Are Nations in Crisis—Just Not Ours, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqSB6OeDxow08:20 Among Transition hiccups, Trump survives stuff that no political mortal could survive, says Mark Halperin, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/among-transition-hiccups-trump-survives-stuff-that/id1573813504?i=100067924014212:00 Humor & Morality, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15804219:00 Variations in Moral Concerns across … Continue reading
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Epistemic Coercion
Stephen Turner writes in Epistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2024, vol. 61, no. 3: “Words such as state, republic, society, class, as well as sovereignty, constitutional state, absolutism, dictatorship, economic planning, neutral or total state, and so on are incomprehensible … Continue reading
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