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Debate vs Public Conversation in the Network Society [12/01/01]
5-SONNET SEQUENCE RE: JACK VALENTI VS LAWRENCE LESSIG ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AT USC 11/29/01 FOR MORE RECENT RHETORICAL SONNET SERIES (& INFO), SCROLL DOWN |
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rhetorical discipline
why "speak" in sonnets? [a 4-sonnet sequence]*
hermeneutic beauty |
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IF BOKE WROTE "POEMS" ... they might look like this ...
6/15/03
[A "SUBMISSION-INAPPROPRIATE" POSTMODERN COLLAGE OF SIMULATED POETRY
INSTRUCTIONS: (1) READ ALL 12 FRAGMENTS (2) ALLOW THEM TO "INTERACT"
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discipline discipline discipline discipline creativity |
p r o g r a m p r o c e s s AND SONNETS ... CONSTRAINTS & CONCEPTUAL SPACES t h e o r y |
won't fit on the screen creative nonfiction fictional reality postmodern truth rhetorical verse poetic journalism imaginative fact chaotic stability complex simplicity pomo romanticism insane democracy subversive order bullshit wrangling this line's mostly filler big type/few words lots of small words getting bored now is this line last not on your life where's monkey-bot automate this text will pay in bananas surely that's the end nope still more space getting close to done what will google think |
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FOOTNOTE: It is written {g}: "He/She who composes a thousand real* sonnets can say 'BULLSHIT!' on television." AMEN * NOTE: "real" sonnets do not include various free verse or faux formal verse things that someone chose to call a sonnet. rhetorical verse!
A "NEW" {smile} RHETORICAL GENRE TO CONSIDER:
Rhetorical Verse IN SHAKESPEAREAN/ENGLISH SONNET FORM
-- especially suited to innovative newspaper Op-Ed issue debate
(Multi-sonnet sequences
may also be used for narrative nonfiction
"verse journalism"GWENDOLYN BROOKS
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BUT the feel of the facts
What has happened with us is that |
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of receiving our facts into our imaginations where they can come alive with feeling."
"Slavery begins when men give up the
"The real defense of freedom |
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Shakespeare's sonnet and the news story ... are re-creations of fragments selected from the confusion of human experience in an effort to give them order and make them comprehensible." |
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of our society is the crisis of the life of the imagination...
... we need to come alive again ... |
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wholly responsible for the flaw which has split knowledge of the heart from knowledge of the head, though it has surely its fair share of the blame.
I mean rather that it is principally |
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HISTORY/HERSTORY {smile}:
Shakespeare grew up in a period
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the twentieth century. For the sake of democracy, it's time (in the age of the Internet) we bring it back to life.
HENCE: Rhetorical Verse
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"sonnet: ... Something about the spaciousness and brevity of the fourteen-line poem seems
"Seneca reports in the Epistles (49.5) 'Cicero said that even if his lifetime were
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* SOFTWARE VERIFICATION OF SONNET FORM -- A recent project was to write a cgi/perl program that can recognize whether fourteen submitted lines are in Shakespearean/English sonnet form (i.e., can verify iambic pentameter meter, and check for abab/cdcd/efef/gg rhyme scheme). [sonnet recognizer, shakespearean sonnet recognition software] |
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ALICE WALKER
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global conversation . . . . . . at the level of art |
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artistofideas
MISC "ADVISORS" ... CICERO:ORATOR//SHAKESPEARE:DRAMATIST-POET//PHILIP FRENEAU:POET-JOURNALIST// interactive rhetoric rhetorical interaction BOKE : postmodern orator |
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And I opened my eyes ... and he told me
a little parable about being at Berkeley and getting into a conversation with an
English professor. He figured out finally
that the guy didn't really know what he
was studying under the heading of rhetoric.
So the English professor said, "What's rhetoric?"
and Willey responded to him with this:
"Rhetoric is lies and bullshit. Every department
in this university is devoted to the search for truth,
except us.
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FOR BULLSHIT READ: BROOKS
rhetorical verse! 
