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Visual Rhetoric

After reading posts by Lars, Morgan and others, I am thinking about a definition of visual rhetoric as one being mindful of the limitations that apply to any visual/rhetorical knowledge making process. In Chapter 6 of Convergence Culture, Jenkins discusses the individual as being unable to count on the presentation or accessibility of any absolute truth (217). But I think the mindfulness of these limitations add a dimension to the definition of visual that is worth considering.

Submitted by Morgan S. on Sun, 2007-03-11 22:39.
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Is mindful more meaningful visually?
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Submitted by Adryan on Wed, 2007-03-21 10:18.

Mindfulness is certainly a part of rhetoric, but I'm curious what about the visual implications of this claim. Are you making a pun ont he relationship between the eye and the brain? Are we more mindful of visual rheotrics than others?


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Submitted by Morgan S. on Sat, 2007-03-24 23:16.

Adryan, certainly, I’m recognizing the advantage that seeing (acknowledging) what we can’t see extends/broadens the ways that we construct knowledge. But I'm not exactly sure what you're asking me in your post. Can you clarify?


Yes, but is it visual?
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Submitted by Adryan on Sun, 2007-03-25 08:51.

"But I think the mindfulness of these limitations add a dimension to the definition of visual that is worth considering."

My question is an invitation to explore how this claim, which applies to all rhetoric, I'm sure, manifests in visual rhetoric. Are there specific conditions or possibilities in the visual realm?