basketball talktalking around paragraph 21 of the prefacetotalizing impulse in Hegelmaintaining distinctions, identity, branding in scholarshipBarad and branding in academiaexternal pressures, publishing industrydeconstructionDeleuze and identityDeleuze and Foucault (“anti-dialectical”) vs HegelWhy do certain thinkers (such as Deleuze and Foucault) resist Hegel so fiercely?the ethics of negation vs the ethics of affirmationwhy are we invested, respectively in Hegel and/or Deleuze?what does each thinker offer for the rhetorical theorist?Deleuze’s emphasis on experimentationHegel’s anti-utopianismthe relentless march of negationhow to read theorists in the field of rhet / compcriticism vs responseinhabiting the textendorsements / dogmatisms“resting” in certain concepts or ontologiesimplicit moralisms in philosophy and theorythe relentless criticisms of Hegel, Adornothe potential dangers of Enlightenment thinkingstyles of appropriationeating / taste / vulgar “appropriation”John doesn’t like beerhabits, desirestheory’s discomfortsthe difficulty of “embracing” differencefacilitating self-consciousness or self-awarenessvarious shapes of self-awareness“glom on” or “latch on” ?
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