Thanks for joining us at Kairoticast.
Our goal at Kairoticast is to show that rhetoric, with all its big, academic and effete sounding ideas, is really quite applicable to our every day lives. [Read More]
Episode 109 – The Body as Text
I had an upsetting experience last week.
You may remember from past episodes that I have been struggling with headaches. This has been going on for months, and if I am being honest, on and off for about a decade. So in August I had a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap, to reduce the pressure in my head. The pressure wasn’t all that high, so there wasn’t too much to reduce, and for a while that seemed to have done the trick. But in the last few weeks my headaches have returned. And sometimes they are bad. This is, of course, really frustrating because I’ve got school, which doesn’t exactly slow down for my discomfort. [Read More]
Episode 108 – Tell Me Plainly: Enlightenment Rhetoric
On Monday NASA’s DART anti-asteroid satellite successfully smashed into a space rock. [Read More]
Episode 107 – Banned Books and the Narrative
Sunday was the beginning of Banned Books Week. As you know, Banned Books Week is a big deal around here.
I got a little preachy in my classes and gave them quite a sermon on banned books. But I took a different tack than I usually do. This time I didn’t talk about censorship or free speech. I don’t know how much that really hits home sometimes. This time I talked about how book challenges are a matter of equity. [Read More]
Episode 106 – Decoder Ring
This week in class we were talking about what the Supreme Court actually does. And, not surprisingly, there were plenty of people who did not really understand it. And that’s okay. I think most Americans don’t. But we were talking about how the SCOTUS reviews laws and decides whether they are Constitutional or not and one student raised her hand and said, “What about ‘The Purge’ law?” [Read More]
Episode 105 – American Exceptionalism
I want to tell you a little story:
There were these people who were all living together, bound together by their religion. But they were eventually expelled from where they lived because of their religious beliefs. [Read More]