Week 11 & 12

This has been an on-going problem, but how do we design a pedagogy that inspires "creation and response" (95) or Invention, or original thought or original composition? I've been experiming with music in the classroom, essentially playing the role of DJ while I provide prompts for my students to write about in their notebooks... they seem to respond well. But always, some seem to write "better" than others (whatever that means, I'm sure I have prejudices and preconceived notions) - What's the connection, here, between embodiment of rhetoric and aptitude? What's the relation between talent and techne? Improvisation and aptitude?
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What would a rhetorical poetics look like, a rhetorica poetica? Katz stresses our lack of creation that coincides with a vision-centric epistemologically driven world, a logocentric society that cannot listen .... would being better creators necessarily make us better listeners?

I think the Greek "poieo" is interesting, meaning "to create" .... have we forgotten this?

Do we need to "play" more? (231)