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Seduction, Sophistry, and the Woman with the Rhetorical Figure

by Michelle Ballif

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“Literature and other fields of scholarship have become feudalized in a modern manorial system. Monopolies of knowledge have been built up by publishing firms to some extent in co-operation with universities and exploited in textbooks.”
― Harold A. Innis, Empire and Communications

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“Cipher, do not decipher. Work over the illusion. Create illusion to create an event. Make enigmatic what is clear, render unintelligible what is only too intelligible, make the event itself unreadable. Accentuate the false transparency of the world to spread a terroristic confusion about it, or the germs or viruses of a radical illusion -- in other words, a radical disillusioning of the real. Viral, pernicious thought, corrosive of meaning, generative of an erotic perception of reality's turmoil.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Perfect Crime

tags: anti-entertainment, radical-thought, simulation, terrorism

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“Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.”
― Jean Baudrillard

tags: americans, identity

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“The task of understanding a culture built on the oral tradition is impossible to students steeped in the written tradition. p.55”
― Harold A. Innis, Empire and Communications

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“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence. Inside its cocoon of work or social obligation, the human spirit slumbers for the most part, registering the distinction between pleasure and pain, but not nearly as alert as we pretend. There are periods in the most thrilling day during which nothing happens, and though we continue to exclaim 'I do enjoy myself' or 'I am horrified' we are insincere. 'As far as I feel anything, it is enjoyment, horror' - it's no more than that really, and a perfectly adjusted organism would be silent.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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