» Optional Exercise (bonus points)
Paradigm Rhetoric — Another Worldview
- 5 points; 500 words (min/max) + media (1 instance minimum)
- Post on your blog or in D2L (by 29-Apr)
» Prompt:
- Discuss a “worldview” that we have not covered this term
- Use our key topics to discuss this worldview in terms of “paradigm rhetoric:”
what counts as Knowledge, and what form(s) does it take?
how is Knowledge communicated? (formally & informally? individually & collectively?)
what is a visible/recognizable or prominent Institution?
what is excluded, omitted, left out? (deliberately or incidentally)
how is Experience viewed and regarded? (what “counts as” Experience? or what how is Experienced understood, represented, expressed…?) how is Identity experienced and performed?
→ important: describing thoughtfully in these terms should generate insights by practicing our advanced understanding and perspective — avoiding criticism, commentary, comparison, judgment, opinion, “personal feelings about,” etc.
(Any responses of this latter sort will not earn credit, as this is not an editorial/commentary exercise; rather, demonstrate your practiced ability to recognize and articulate conventions of a worldview and how it works as a paradigm rhetorically and philosophically.)
- As brief conclusion, 1. use your insights to name this paradigm in brief title
(hint: use noun form, by adding “-ism,” “-ization,” “-ity”)
Include one media instance (any form, found/created) that conveys the “mood of thought” of this title.2. Briefly note (2 sentences) your insights resulting from this exercise, using the perspective of “paradigm rhetoric” (our method of study) &mdash any new ideas, realizations, reconsideration, etc.
While not required, you might position (not necessarily comparison/contrast) in relation to paradigms — Belief, Information/Argument, Experience — that we’ve studied; or, to your prior knowledge (other courses, texts, media, etc.)
Alternatively, you might also discuss considering Electracy: as it is being invented, perhaps syncretic of Orality & Literacy, what in/of the paradigm you’ve discussed could be relevant or valuable to include in this new apparatus? (especially concerning identity experience and expression, recalling our considerations of affect and aesthetics…)
- — possible selections include (among others):
professional / “productivity”; business / global economics (post-industrial multinational corporate capitalism); other political ideologies
spirituality (not belief discussed in unit 1, your video; nor “religion” generally)
nature, ecology, sexuality, biology, animal studies (not discipline/information focus of your project 2)
artisanal culture; creativity, performance, role-playing / game
posthumanism / “transhumanism,” hybridity, “technological singularity”
Nootropics, altered states, Panpsychism
non-Western or “alternative” philosophy, movements, practices, beliefs (e.g. astrology, I Ching/divination, Shamanism, mythology, occult)