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We offer institutional critique as an activist methodology for changing institutions. Since institutions are rhetorical entities, rhetoric can be deployed to change them. In its effort to counter oppressive institutional structures, the field of rhetoric and com-position has focused its attention chiefly on the composition classroom, on the de-partment of English, and on disciplinary forms of critique. Our focus shifts the scene of action and argument to professional writing and to public discourse, using spatial methods adapted from postmodern geography and critical theory.
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Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change
http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/pubs/portetal.pdf
Porter, James E., Patricia Sullivan, Stuart Blythe, Jeffrey T. Grabill and Libby Miles
CCC
2000
Abstract: We offer institutional critique as an activist methodology for changing institutions. Since institutions are rhetorical entities, rhetoric can be deployed to change them. In its effort to counter oppressive institutional structures, the field of rhetoric and com-position has focused its attention chiefly on the composition classroom, on the de-partment of English, and on disciplinary forms of critique. Our focus shifts the scene of action and argument to professional writing and to public discourse, using spatial methods adapted from postmodern geography and critical theory.
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Brick and mortar institutions cannot be reduced to mere rhetoric, unless you want to argue artist themselves as means of critical discourse are rhetorical entities, devoid of bodies and any physical reality. Institutions are build for permanence and not for change, and managing them costs time, effort and money, mere practicalities institutional critiques are curiously oblivious about in their rhetorical logorrhea |
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