Technocratic Rhetoric

The topics that I am most interested is God and health. I am extremely passionate about my faith as well as maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It may seem like these two topics are on the opposite side of the planet, but they have more similarities than you may think. My favorite reading thus far in A Time Traveler's Guide to Rhetoric is “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato. This story reminds me of today’s society, as humans begin to see the significance of light we also discover the truth. Of course, this all relates to my Christian faith, in which we seek the truth of Jesus Christ, we become the light in a dull and dark world. The longest paper I ever had to write was last year in my AP English course in which I was required to do a semester long

Memes in today 's society are used to mock things and often are satire. For my project I choose the memes of Willy Wonka and ‘I don’t always... but when I do I’. These are used to mock morality and the triviality of the upper class and privileged respectively. These are both issues that we face in society.

In 2004 the United States of America held a presidential election as it does every four years. Throughout the process, from primary to convention, from the debates to Election Day, both the candidates and the media relied on rhetoric to influence the thoughts of the electorate. Because of the close results of the 2000 election and the bitter court battle that followed, the rhetoric of the campaigns of both major candidates in 2004 was stronger and more focused than before. To show the uses of this rhetoric and its effects on the public through the media, several topics are discussed within. First, the language used by the candidates, followed by a discussion of the political conventions and a look at the

"You don 't get the chance to make America great by getting rid of everything that made America great,” Stated by Hillary Clinton during her campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri to attack candidate Donald Trump from his previous diverse rhetoric. Political Rhetoric has been very popular in today’s society. Politics use this as a platform to criticize other candidates about important points that are essential to the United States and its citizens. Not only does others believe that political rhetoric is out of control but it is a negative form of art. During election time, the media and the internet are critical for candidates because it gives them easy access to the younger audience. Although social media is enormous in today’s society, this is the best way for young voters to make their voices heard. Scott Keeter a research analyst and exit poll analyst for NBS News stated that “Young voters have given the Democratic Party a majority of their votes, and for all three cycles they have been the party’s most supportive age group” (Keeter, 1). According to U.S. Census Bureau over the course of time the rate of younger voters “Dropped from 50.9% percent in 1964 to 38.0 percent in 2012” (U.S. Census Bureau, 2).However, the media continue to evolve with modern society. I believe that rhetoric such as visual political rhetoric helps the youth to get more involved with the political arguments while being educated and entertained at the same time.

Memes have been circulating social media for over centuries now, whether it is defusing tension or raising awareness, they have become an important part of society. Memes come in all different forms including a picture, video, gif and more. Their point is to appeal to different age groups socially and relate to them. They are ideas that spread usually through social media that sometimes have a message behind them, however the message can either be informing or degrading. It all come down to whether that message is effective or not.

Memes, like everything else, begin with an idea. While every meme is an idea, not all ideas are memes. Memes are now not only created for entertainment but for both the creation and viral recognition of society’s opinions. Memes are made up of both collective and individual identities.

In the last decade, technology has redefined how society behaves and how people interact with one another. James Gleick compared memes to organisms in his essay “What Defines a Meme?” This essay uses phrases such as “genes”, “chemistry”, “DNA” and “evolution” to set a more formal and scientific mood. This helps convey his idea that technology can transmit ideas like viruses between different people all around the globe. Paul Ford wrote an essay about how people with iPhones feel when texting people with android phones.

proves, not everyone is willing to give power to those who would elevate and legitimize right wing rhetoric.

A Howl Against Capitalism: An Analysis of a Poet’s Political Metaphors Ginsberg’s Howl is decidedly not the kind of poem that inspires children in traditional elementary schools across the country to put their right hands on their breasts, face the flag, sing the national anthem. Contrariwise, the controversial poem uses Ginsberg’s signature repetitive prosody and metaphorical speech to figuratively pummel the living daylights out of the society we know as America. More specifically, it is Ginsberg’s unabridged, unyielding critique of American lifestyle in the post-World War II era of the 1950’s from the perspective of the optimistically poetic but down-trodden beatniks. His fast-paced, restless thrashing is perhaps a defining feature of

. He notes, “Intensified state control over every sphere of socioeconomic life combined with radical decline of the institutions of political democracy” (Poulantzas). Because the state works to conceptualize society though a narrative of control, this allows resistance to be criminalized by adjusting policies to enforce punishments or scapegoating towards those dismantling conforming ideologies. Relating to other works of discourse, Wendy Brown demonstrates how Left movements lose their thrive and legitimacy in her article “Resisting Left Melancholy”. She writes how resistance loses its flame “And When this traditionalism is conjoined with a loss of faith in the egalitarian vision...what emerges is Left that operates without either a deep and radical critique of the status quo or a compelling alternative to the existing order of things” (Brown 26 ). Brown emphasizes the normalization of the status quo through passive politics, as well as how legacies of old tradition, which were based off exclusion and whiteness have enabled a crumbling of resistance movements that allow the modern system to maintain power through

The majority of these memes intertextually linked Putin to more popular internet memes (Figure 4). One meme put the backward hat of “Scumbag Steve,” with the text “I Don’t Like Meme//So I outlaw them.” Another showed “Rare Pepe,” an image of a frog used to mock the claims of “rare” web images, distributing memes from inside a trench coat. Borrowing from the larger ethos of the memes, these iterations argue an effort to regulate discourse on the internet is fruitless as the restrictions will anger users, who would view Putin as a “scumbag” and promote further circulation – evidenced by Pepe promising a new black-market. Even the previously circulating Putin-based meme “Give that Man a Cookie” joined the commentary, proclaiming, “Give that meme-maker life imprisonment.” This iteration highlights that Putin’s very nature is authoritarian, as his first response to criticism is imprisonment, framing the anti-meme clarification as another example of the non-democratic reality of Russian

In our contemporary societies, it is encouraged to be an entrepreneur, to invent or to innovate. With new inventions such as the Google Glass, smartphones, and smart watches, it is becoming increasingly easier for monopolies such as Amazon, Google, and Apple to influence the public in ways that we cannot fathom, similar to Bentham’s model of the Panopticon. These major capitalist corporations create technological gadgets that become an extension of us, and Haraway further confirmed this by stating in the Cyborg Manifesto that the machine is becoming an extension of us, our processes, a part of our embodiment (1991: 180). As a result of our dependence on these gadgets, it is even easier for corporations and governments to control, monitor, and influence the general public. Therefore, the agency of the general public has decreased in ways that were not possible before. For example, if I were to search on Google “insurance,” the results would not be objective, but based on a system that I have no influence over, meaning my agency has decreased by the simple fact that the Google search engine is making a decision on what the top suggestions are for me. As humans become more dependent on these technological gadgets and the blurring of lines between what a means to be a human and a technological gadget decreases, our agency reduces even more, by the simple fact that the

These components of bureaucracies are controlling our society and are also being passed on to other nations. In addition, it is eliminating questions and work that cannot be answered or fitted into the work-routine that the system operates on. “Weber stated” Such eliminations create irrationalities that can have our lives locked in an iron cage of irrationality that can harm our society for many years to come, not to mention it already had.

The concept of the mediatisation of space has allowed for an understanding of the intertwining of the public and the private spheres. This experience of the public sphere is seen through the infusion of symbols and representations within media forms, thus showing us the impact of changes that the media has catalysed in our individual everyday life. The public sphere within the private space can be seen in mediums such as Twitter, in which the representation of words and hashtags have shifted the societal experience. Thus, this idea of mediatisation of space allows for an understanding of the value and experience of the public in individual lives with the assistance of signs, symbols and representations.

Within the social sciences in contemporary times it is argued that corporatism has shrugged off its previous association with authoritarian and fascists regimes, and is now deployed as a means for analysing the role of organized interest in present day liberal democracies. Outhwaite argues that corporatism has also passed into common political usage as shorthand for the involvement of trade unions, together with organisations which represent the interests of capital in bargaining with governments over economic policies. Debated publicly, corporatism is now seen as the antithesis of neo-liberalism, in which governments seek to use competition rather than negotiation as the dynamic of policy making.