Ira Allen
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Dr. Ira Allen's Rhetorical & Ethical Theory Lab at NAU: studying places where persuasion and the good intersect
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it's actually worse than it sounds because not only does the informant get their complaint sent to the previously strictly internal OERC, if you combine this with another provision they actually get the instructor in trouble with the feds. it's a government informant system
hoo boy. my first thought is that this in effect means that at brown, you can now complain about your enemies internally and have that automatically get shot up to the government. it's informing with plausible deniability
July 31, 2025 at 1:42 AM
For me, it's watching this hack bend with what he sees as the wind in real time. Hard to believe that guy having a platform *isn't* some kinda psyop, given his gleefully incoherent stumping for whatever seems likely to advance the cause of Matt Yglesias.
April 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For me, it's watching this hack bend with what he sees as the wind in real time. Hard to believe that guy having a platform *isn't* some kinda psyop, given his gleefully incoherent stumping for whatever seems likely to advance the cause of Matt Yglesias.
I'm not pithy like that.
(No but for real, I like writing to try to figure something out; short form always makes me feel constrained and irritable and I end up being more of an asshole than I want to be. But sincerely, thank you!)
(No but for real, I like writing to try to figure something out; short form always makes me feel constrained and irritable and I end up being more of an asshole than I want to be. But sincerely, thank you!)
February 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm not pithy like that.
(No but for real, I like writing to try to figure something out; short form always makes me feel constrained and irritable and I end up being more of an asshole than I want to be. But sincerely, thank you!)
(No but for real, I like writing to try to figure something out; short form always makes me feel constrained and irritable and I end up being more of an asshole than I want to be. But sincerely, thank you!)
Love that mantra--gonna take it on myself. Thanks, Seth!!
February 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Love that mantra--gonna take it on myself. Thanks, Seth!!
Thanks a lot, Brandon!!
January 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Thanks a lot, Brandon!!
Can't see why you tag this "blame the voters." If a political party spends Billions with a B and consistently loses vote share, all while real wages decline and that party fails to deliver publicly desired goods or even "democracy" in a substantive sense, why would you blame anyone but the party?
December 19, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Can't see why you tag this "blame the voters." If a political party spends Billions with a B and consistently loses vote share, all while real wages decline and that party fails to deliver publicly desired goods or even "democracy" in a substantive sense, why would you blame anyone but the party?
Tell ya one thing for sure, though: I have no use for all the insta-experts popping up w their hot takes on an extremely complicated situation they seem not even to have bothered reading the briefing about to fill in backstory, takes aligning perfectly w one or another non-Syrian political faction.
December 8, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Tell ya one thing for sure, though: I have no use for all the insta-experts popping up w their hot takes on an extremely complicated situation they seem not even to have bothered reading the briefing about to fill in backstory, takes aligning perfectly w one or another non-Syrian political faction.
Ha, interesting approach! Would be worth asking students to tease out what doxa, what unspoken assumptions about how the world is, *must be made* and (contrastingly) *are merely likely* for each of the three outputs.
December 7, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Ha, interesting approach! Would be worth asking students to tease out what doxa, what unspoken assumptions about how the world is, *must be made* and (contrastingly) *are merely likely* for each of the three outputs.