Diverse Rhetorics

Diverse Rhetorics instructed its students on different cultural conceptions of rhetoric and dialectics, teaching these practices not as stable, but as adaptive and multi-situational. Throughout this course, I adapted these different conceptions of rhetoric for my own purposes—to express my own academic studies, as well as analyze the works of others.

Asymptote

This was originally a piece I did simply arguing for the dialectical reading of mathematics and vice-versa. As a part of a revision assignment for Writing, Design, and Circulation, I re-imagined this piece as a play between mathematics, poetry, and rhetoric and dialectics. I wrote a series of "proof" poems, poems modeled after mathematical proofs and equations, and a series of "answer" keys to these equations, explaining where the inspiration for them came and how I wrote them.

Copaganda

As a part of Diverse Rhetorics, I wrote a piece analyzing the way that "sophisticated" copaganda, television such as True Detective, utilizes an intelligent form of deconstruction to paint cops as heroes, whose work is necessary for the function of greater society, while still appearing to acknowledge issues with policing such as systematic racism. As cop shows are a guilty pleasure of mine to watch, it ended up being a really fun write.