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Rhetoric for Radicals Ch. 5

  • Neo-radicalism
    • Manifest your political ideals, so long as they don’t impinge on other people’s ability to do the same
    • Builds on existing forms of activism
    • How is it different than what came before
  • Some contradictions in his statements
    • Sometimes he doesn’t follow his own advice (such as categorization)
  • Some potential arrogance in this chapter
    • There is a personal turn in 180, using the personal as evidence
  • Potentially sheds light on some potential activist movements o Notions of leaderless movements

  • What have we learned/gained from this text?
    • Strategies for building an argument
    • Focus on tone (maybe a counter-example)
    • The importance of material aspects like the body
    • How contemporary activism may be more decentralized and less hegemonic than previous activist efforts
    • Terminology
      • Neo-radicalism
      • Decentralization