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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
For on television, discourse is conducted largely through visual imagery, which is to say that television gives us a conversation in images, not words. The emergence of the image-manager in the political arena and the concomitant decline of the speech writer attest to the fact that television demands a different kind of content from other media. Yo
... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Hayden White expresses what I believe is a sympathetic critique of Ricoeur’s ideas.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Weaver was a professor of rhetoric.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
the author will actively pursue a specific goal (the point they are trying to make), positing a theory, exploring it and coming to a conclusion.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
historiography cannot be a science. It can only be an industry, an art, and a philosophy—an industry by ferreting out the facts, an art by establishing a meaningful order in the chaos of materials, a philosophy by seeking perspective and enlightenment.
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
stories link our knowledge into a narrative that, like a good operating system, is vivid, clear and easy to navigate.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
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