STroNG DEFEnSES

Technology | Media | Rhetoric

 Father and daughter in field.
Image Credit: http://www.gromaine.com/
 Rhetoric is superficial, a
layer added around
unrhetorical stuff

Stuff
Substance Rhetoric is built into
Idea stuff itself. As such, it
Thought determinative and
Value essentially creative.
Fact

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An elephant from a Belgian zoo is put to work on a Belgian farm during World War I.
Image Credit: ADOC-PHOTOS/CORBIS
Language isn’t a train.
Nickel Plate Road.
Image Credit: Classic Trains Magazine
Rhetoric isn’t a train.
 Agora in Athens. Reconstruction by G. Rehlender.
IMAGE: Giro P. Chastnaja i obwestvennaja zhizn’ grekov.
Trains aren’t trains.
The NASA Railroad train transports the last space
shuttle solid rocket booster segments over the Indian River.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
37 Million Horsepower.
Technology is a neutral tool
put to nontechnological
ends by masterful humans

Technology
(re)configures human
Communication agency as it
Violence simultaneously
Desire exceeds it. Far from
Assistance value neutral, it is
value laden and
value producing.

Weak Defense of Strong Defense of

Technology Technology
The Montparnasse derailment occurred at
16:00 on October 22, 1895 when the Granville–
Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare
Montparnasse terminus.

A woman, Marie-Augustine Aguilard, in the street

below was killed by falling masonry. The engineer
was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.

An attempt was made to move the locomotive with

14 horses, but this failed.
Train erupts into the subconscious world of Christopher Nolan’s Inception.
"BLINX1" by Glitch artist Rosa Menkman.
Image Credit: Fashion Spinder
Cute KITTENS Sing In AUTOTUNE. ThatsSoRandumb
St Augustine on St Ambrose: “His eyes
traveled across the pages and his heart
searched out the meaning, but his voice
and tongue stayed still.”

Image: St Antony Reading by

Marcantonio Bassetti
 Technology
(re)configures human
agency as it Rhetoric is built into
simultaneously stuff itself. As such, it
exceeds it. Far from determinative and
value neutral, it is essentially creative.
value laden and
value producing.

Strong Defense of Technology Strong Defense of Rhetoric

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