The Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation & Rhetoric along with the PhD in Argumentation Studies at the University of Windsor invite you to a talk by
Philip Morais, Argumentation Studies
Death of the "Publish or Perish" Paradigm
The “publish or perish” paradigm persists in academia despite print being marginalized by digital devices. If brick-and-mortar bookstores had to adapt to virtual retailers like Amazon, then brick-and-mortar schools are facing similar disruptions with platforms like YouTube. Death of the “publish or perish” paradigm is not de facto though, being antiquated but rather marks where new life begins, effecting surprising transformations in this online ontology. My talk attempts an anecdotal take on these matters, focusing on my interview by Intellect Books posted earlier in the year to their YouTube channel. Guided by Roman scholar Gaius Marius Victorinus, Belgian argumentation theorist and jurist Chaïm Perelman, scientist-statesman Francis Bacon, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Canadian argumentation theorist and classicist Christopher W. Tindale, Irish modernist novelist James Joyce, Anglo-American artist-critic T. S. Eliot, and American professor of literature Joseph Campbell, I’ll consider several of the classical seven circumstances and question whether my interview is an interview at all; that, as a simulacrum splicing documentary, fiction, and avant-garde cinema, this may more fruitfully be seen and heard as a video essay or as a dialogue harkening back to Plato. An author can be an effective advocate, but social media means more than new promotional techniques, they entail new audiences too and are not content to be an adjunct to the operation of the old business: they take and remake publishing into being an adjunct to them. It is good to be aware of this process and exploit it for pedagogical purposes. Therefore, I etch out consequences on argumentation with close attention to the use of the aphorism as an organizational principle threaded together through an analogical application of myth. This talk is meant to stimulate attendees to think more about argumentation as a practice, situated as a part to the academic profession, and how it is shaped by technology.
September 20, 2024
3:00 p.m.
Chrysler Hall North, 1163
All Welcome