The Rhetoric of Ancient Egypt (citations)

This script isn't fully accurate to the video - I tend to improvise while recording and editing. But here's how my messy script looks! Thought I'd just give the raw thing. Let me know if you have any questions! Note: The in-text citations that have decimal points are all from [1]. They represent sections within... Continue Reading →

How Linnaeus described animals…

Full video: https://youtube.com/shorts/IhzgwBdCBgw?feature=share Script Linnaeus is controversial for his descriptions of the ā€œvarietiesā€ of humans, Wild Men - H. Feriā€œWild boys found, in 1719, in the Pyreneesā€American - H. Americaniā€œRemarkably erectā€Europeans - H. Europaeiā€œGoverned by fixed lawsā€Asiatic - H. Asiaticiā€œGoverned by opinionsā€African - H. Afriā€œCareless dispositionsā€Monsters - H. Monstrosiā€œBy peculiarity of climateā€Varieties of humans, according... Continue Reading →

The annoying push for prescriptive principles in art

"Jettisoning blandly rational appeals, Dickens hoped that fiction—or, I will argue, an enchanted mode of reading—would be key to social progress, twenty thousand times more powerful than facts. In other words, Dickens believed he could enchant readers into a consideration of ethics." [1] Plourde 271 The consumption of art welcomes a variety of techniques, all... Continue Reading →

A brief expression of wonder

"Why do you always have to be so indecisive? I asked myself as I slapped my temple. And I really slapped it hard, so much so that for a second, the whole world before me appeared all wobbly. It was there that I finally made certain what it was that I was meant to do.... Continue Reading →

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