basketball talk
talking around paragraph 21 of the preface
totalizing impulse in Hegel
maintaining distinctions, identity, branding in scholarship
Barad and branding in academia
external pressures, publishing industry
deconstruction
Deleuze and identity
Deleuze and Foucault (“anti-dialectical”) vs Hegel
Why do certain thinkers (such as Deleuze and Foucault) resist Hegel so fiercely?
the ethics of negation vs the ethics of affirmation
why are we invested, respectively in Hegel and/or Deleuze?
what does each thinker offer for the rhetorical theorist?
Deleuze’s emphasis on experimentation
Hegel’s anti-utopianism
the relentless march of negation
how to read theorists in the field of rhet / comp
criticism vs response
inhabiting the text
endorsements / dogmatisms
“resting” in certain concepts or ontologies
implicit moralisms in philosophy and theory
the relentless criticisms of Hegel, Adorno
the potential dangers of Enlightenment thinking
styles of appropriation
eating / taste / vulgar “appropriation”
John doesn’t like beer
habits, desires
theory’s discomforts
the difficulty of “embracing” difference
facilitating self-consciousness or self-awareness
various shapes of self-awareness
“glom on” or “latch on” ?