ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck
ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck ENGL 3860: Introduction Slide Deck
Ethics Ethics, within the context of rhetorical advocacy, demands integrity, the inclusion of relevant perspectives, audience identification, thorough research, and situational awareness. Ethics is about more than following a static set of protocols; it is about openly engaging others. The Greeks had a name for this approach to ethics: agonism, or the productive strife of a public gathering. Rather than producing clear winners and losers, agonism is about generating a stronger whole. Agonism can be contrasted with antagonism, which literally means “against the gathering.”
“Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
- Page 1 and 2: Public writing write the World ENGL
- Page 3 and 4: Our worlds are built of things that
- Page 5 and 6: The Cahokia Site in its geographic
- Page 7 and 8: Map of the mines of Cheltenham (Dog
- Page 9 and 10: This means that our writing too mus
- Page 11: Advocacy Though most people associa
- Page 15 and 16: Other readings
- Page 17 and 18: Things That Matter A proposal (1,50
- Page 19 and 20: Zines
- Page 22 and 23: The city itself is less a situs, sa
“Drawing on pathbreaking research in archaeology and anthropology,<br />
the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place<br />
once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive<br />
what’s really there. If humans did not spend 95 percent of their<br />
evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they<br />
doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge<br />
into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and<br />
economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often<br />
unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be<br />
less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than<br />
we tend to assume.<br />
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our<br />
understanding of the human past and offers a path toward<br />
imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society.<br />
This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated<br />
by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.
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