These two gentlemen agreed to talk to me for an hour, an agreement that was both generous and ill-advised. The occasion arose after I became aware that Vinzent had engaged at length with an old article of mine from 2012.
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I recently returned from the RSA (Rhetoric Society of America) conference in Denver. I gave two talks: one, co-authored with Nick Sciullo: “A Reconsideration of Callicles’s Arguments in the Gorgias: Was “Uncle Cal” Onto Something?” and one solo: “Bringing the Machines Closer: Richard Feynman and Metaphor.” The reception was positive, and based on the work that I did to get it into presentation-shape, I should be able to get the Feynman paper submitted somewhere in the fall.
I am not skilled at making connections at conferences, but for whatever reason, I met a lot of interesting people doing interesting work this time around, including some I’d only met over Zoom during the pandemic.
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It’s Almost If…
…riot police on your campus is not a good look.
UT-Austin, by the way. It’s almost as if committing to free speech on your campus is completely performative.
The faculty seem to have noticed.
Once again, BS like this is easy to avoid. Defend free speech. It’s not complex.