English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

[This post draws from Amy's post entitled “And now, to reenact tragedy”]

This discussion has gotten me thinking about the stipulations of visual rhetoric in terms of knowledge production. How much do we/should we rely upon our eyes seeing the actual event of [fill in the blank] to feel like we know something about it? Why is it rarely enough to hear about it or read about it? Why are the eyes the medium that guarantees immediacy, or somehow realer knowledge?