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Rhetoric for Radicals Ch. 4

  • Street theater
    • Author potentially favors improvisation
  • Picture-bomb as technique for visual argument
  • The vibe
    • Is this a contemporary phenomenon?
    • Connection to rhetoric
      • Has something to do with style or ancillary information (rather than literal content)
    • General feeling bodily communicated
      • Communicated through gestures, expressions
      • Proximity
      • Speech (language choice, patterns, volume)
      • Reciprocal with audience (responsive to Kairos)
    • Different people are differently capable of responding to vibe
      • It’s built by groups even if individuals have different responsibility within it
    • Can distributed groups have a vibe?
      • A city, a nation, the world?
        • But is that always shared?
        • Is this tied to events?
          • Events can galvanize and distinguish responses