Collin G Brooke
@cgbrooke
I’m a rhetoric professor in upstate NY.
Collin G Brooke
cgbrooke.substack.com
we need both “effective public disapproval” and “the influence of a preponderant professional condemnation.” I offer this book as a springboard to both.
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young • Wrong
A common argument for not regulating speech is that “good” speech will defeat “bad” speech. But that will not happen if the fight is fixed to give the “bad” speech so much more voice.
Steven Brill • The Death of Truth
Scale suggests that any object appears different—or does not even exist at all—if you change the scale of perception.
Joshua DiCaglio • Scale Theory
It has become increasingly possible to give almost continuous access to politicians—or that's the illusion. Think of our phones, these totemic objects we all carry—the intimacy of sitting in bed with the screen close to your face, watching a politician record a video or a livestream of themselves with their own phone. That's different from sitting
... See more“Each new generation, indeed every new human being as he inserts himself between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave it anew.”
Jenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
people who use social media frequently perceive significantly more political disagreement in their daily lives than those who do not.
Chris Bail • Breaking the Social Media Prism
As Gilroy-Ware puts it, “Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy and justifiable political instinct: suspicion.”
Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
To succeed in today's media environment, “political leaders must appear as accessible, authentic, and relatable,” she argues,
Conor Friedersdorf • The Charisma-vs.-Charm Election
Irony is a fancy word for saying “the opposite of that which is perceived.”