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 112 – For the Children
I’m back again! For a while I might be down to an episode every few weeks as I complete my road to recovery. So I am especially thankful that you are accompanying me on that journey. I’ll try to stay as relevant and current as ever.
But to begin our story today, we have to go back in time a little.
In 1868 there was an English court case, Regina v. Hicklin, which set the course for the way we view appropriate public discourse for about a century. This case established the Hicklin test, which said that all material tending “to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall,” was obscene, regardless of its artistic or literary merit. [Read More]
Episode 111 – The Search for History
After our last episode a listener reached out to talk about it. He said he enjoyed it but had a couple of questions or quibbles. Mostly, he wanted to know whether I thought of history as “fact?” [Read More]
The Search for Art
Hello, gentle listeners. It’s been a while. So let me catch you up on a few things.
I had brain surgery on January 5th. And if you think that sounds intense, then you are right. [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]