The Society of the 3rd Sophistic (S3S) | The Student Body organization of Clemson University's Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID) PhD program.
28 April 2016
27 July 2014
S3S Invades the Parlor at KBS2014
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| Beautiful St. Louis at Night |
It was an exciting and illuminating experience, as illustrated by the comments and quotes from the attendees:
"As I knew it would be, KBS 2014 in St. Louis gave me the opportunity to witness our talented RCID students putting in their oars, joining the unending conversation of history in the parlor in~ David Blakesley
grand style."
"The highlight for me: After one session featuring RCID students, a Burkeian from across the pond told me, 'You should be proud.' I am and we are!" ~ David Blakesley
Data gets the Dr. Ricket's Signature!
"Overall, I loved getting to see the diversity of how Burke is used, but I particularly enjoyed the panel on Burke and the Chicago Circle with Jack Selzer and Robert Wess" ~ Kathy Elrick
"The shirts were cute and soft, and taco night ruled!" ~ Kathy Erick
Ubiquitous selfie with KE and JB.
"Thomas Ricket's keynote on Parmenides and Nietzsche was excellent. It's encouraging and inspiring to see established figures in the field not only acknowledging but featuring the aesthetic, the sensible, and the spiritual as relevant dimensions of rhetoric." ~ Matthew Osborn
"The Kenneth Burke Society charmed my socks off. Such fascinating people with such interesting presentations. Music, literature, politics, the apocalypse--we covered it all." ~ Mari Ramler
"I was impressed by the creative and astonishing ways presenters applied Burke's thought to so many aspects of art, daily life, politics, pedagogy, and technology." ~ Data Canlas
JJJ Burkeing up Augmented Reality
"As a newbie, I felt privileged to be among brilliant Burkean scholars who were so generous with their wisdom, advice and feedback." ~ Data Canlas
"This conference goes on my list of 'most memorable conferences attended.'" ~ Data Canlas
Data encountering the Arch
"I heard two different comments, which I'll have to paraphrase: 'Your students are impressive;' and 'There are so many students from Clemson here! That speaks well of your program.' I totally agree!" ~ Steve Katz
24 July 2014
S3S 2014-15 Officer Election Results
Your S3S Officers
for the 2014-15
Academic Year are:
President – Matthew Osborne
Vice President – Hayley Zertuche
Secretary – Jay Jacobs
Development/RSA Coordinator – Kristen Gay
Archivist – A.D. Carson
RCID Advisory Council – Eric Hall and Sharon Henry
GSG Senators – Kathy Elrick and Dina Septiani
Dean’s Council Rep – Kate Hanzalik
CRC Coordinator – Lauren Woolbright
06 March 2013
S3S Day of Service, 3/2
The Society of Sophistic that is Third headed down to Anderson last weekend to build a wheelchair ramp with the friendly folks at ReWiGo Ministries.
We braved a genuine South Carolina snowfall, taught our co-volunteers from Clemson Architecture graduate programs some bad Heidegger jokes, and Jared had his first Clif Bar. We had a great time and left the beautiful upstate region a little more accessible than we found it.
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We braved a genuine South Carolina snowfall, taught our co-volunteers from Clemson Architecture graduate programs some bad Heidegger jokes, and Jared had his first Clif Bar. We had a great time and left the beautiful upstate region a little more accessible than we found it.
02 January 2013
RCID Student Publications in 2012
A selection of RCID student publications in 2012:
Byrum, Kristie, “How (and Why) to Create A Corporate Social Responsibility Platform.” A Guide to Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsibility & Green PR. Vol. 4. by PR News. Access Intelligence, 2012.
Colton, Jared. “Articulating a Politics of a Reticulated Community.” Review Article of Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political, Philip Armstrong. Enculturation. (May 2012) Web.
Colton, Jared. Review of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations, Diane Davis. Rhetoric Review, Volume 31, Number 1 (January 2012), pp. 88-92. Print.
Fancher, Patricia. “Review of Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work by Douglas Coupland” Enculturation 9:2 (2011), 21 December 2011.
Henry, Sharon. “Guest Editors’ Introduction: Crossroads, not Cross Purposes: Contingency, Vulnerability, and Alliances in the Contemporary Writing Program.” Co-authored with Seth Kahn, West Chester U of PA and Amy Lynch-Binieck, Kutztown U of PA. Open Words – Special Issue 6.1 2012: 1-5.
Holmes, Steven. “Would Socrates Approve this Message? From Social Realism to Rhetorical 'Allegorithms' as Gaming Activism in Markus Persson's Minecraft.” Games of Words. Ed. Zachary Waggoner. Macmillan, 2012.
Holmes, Steve. “Wither Ecocriticsm in the Era of Hyperobjects?” Review of Ecology Without Nature and The Ecological Thought, by Timothy Morton. Journal of Ecocriticism (2012).
Lind, Stephen J. (2012). “Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication.” In E. Plec (Ed.) Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication. New York: Routledge.
Lind, Stephen J. (2012). “Teaching Digital Oratory: Public Speaking 2.0.” Communication Teacher 26 (3), 163-169. DOI:10.1080/17404622.2012.659193.
McFarlane, Nicole. “Digital Memory and Narrative through 'African American Rhetoric[s] 2.0'” Review of Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric by Vorris Nunley and Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age by Adam Banks. Enculturation (2012).
Stowe, S. Andrew. “The Inherent Interdisciplinarity of Multimodal Composition” Integrative Pathways, The Association for Interdisciplinary Studies quarterly newsletter. October 2012.
Great work, everyone!
30 December 2012
S3S December Gathering
Much fun and festivities were had at the annual S3S Christmas Party. Jan and Cynthia were kind enough to host the festivities and the decorations were excellent. Many Kudos to Jimmy and Lauren Butts for carrying on the tradition of making the Collamati meatballs. After enjoying the grub and Jan’s Grog, the traditional white elephant gift exchange ensued. Some of the favorites included 1980’s exercise tapes, a roll of bubble wrap, and a sack of onions.
02 November 2012
Halloween Costume Party!
The gang put on their best re-presentations of that which they weren't last weekend for the annual S3S Halloween Party!
The spooky spectacular included but was not limited to orange rice krispy treats, corporeally interactive html5, smores, a DIY ping pong table, David Blakesley as Dexter, and Jan Holmevik as himself: a rad biker. Great thanks to our marvelous hosts, Jimmy and Lauren Butts, whose lawn decorations both confuse and delight!
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| Ashley, Hayley, and Lauren with munchkin accompaniment |
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| Jimmy presents the Best Costume Award... |
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| ...to Brian and Lauren, who easily secured victory as women in binders |
The spooky spectacular included but was not limited to orange rice krispy treats, corporeally interactive html5, smores, a DIY ping pong table, David Blakesley as Dexter, and Jan Holmevik as himself: a rad biker. Great thanks to our marvelous hosts, Jimmy and Lauren Butts, whose lawn decorations both confuse and delight!
29 October 2012
RCID Students Awarded Teaching Distinctions and Grant Funding
Congratulations to our many Graduate Teaching Assistants who received a Clemson "Difference Makers" award! An anonymous survey conducted by University Housing gave on-campus students the opportunity to identify a particularly impacting faculty or staff member. We are happy to boast seven such mentors in our ranks. Congratulations to Jimmy Butts, Kristie Byrum, Jared Colton, Patricia Fancher, Michael Lucas, Lauren Mitchell, and Glenn Southergill!
Additionally, many of our students will hit the road with some funding provided by the Clemson's Professional Enrichment Grant (PEG) initiative for a variety of professionalization experiences. We're pleased to congratulate the following PEG recipients: Kristie Byrum, Patricia Fancher, John Jay Jacobs, Stephen Lind, and Drew Stowe!
Lind used this opportunity for a trip to California to conduct original interviews and archive research for his dissertation. "The competitive funding provided through the Graduate Student Government is an essential component of Clemson's support of graduate research," said Lind, making possible "research and presentations that often simply would not happen otherwise."
Additionally, many of our students will hit the road with some funding provided by the Clemson's Professional Enrichment Grant (PEG) initiative for a variety of professionalization experiences. We're pleased to congratulate the following PEG recipients: Kristie Byrum, Patricia Fancher, John Jay Jacobs, Stephen Lind, and Drew Stowe!
Lind used this opportunity for a trip to California to conduct original interviews and archive research for his dissertation. "The competitive funding provided through the Graduate Student Government is an essential component of Clemson's support of graduate research," said Lind, making possible "research and presentations that often simply would not happen otherwise."
Congrats, all!
27 September 2012
Day of Service with ReWiGo
S3S members reached out to the community last weekend in constructing a wheelchair ramp for an Easley, SC household. Check it out:
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| J. Butts & P. Fancher at the saw |
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| G. Southergill |
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| H. Christiansen, S. Lind, P. Fancher, J. Butts, M. Osborn |
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| The finished product! K. Elrick, G. Southergill, J. Colton, A. Colton |
The day of service was coordinated by ReWiGo Ministries Program Director Sara Newton, who earned her degree in Architecture right here in Tiger Town! More pictures and additional information at Facebook.com/ReWiGo.
10 May 2012
Thank you for a great year!
S3S wants to congratulate this year's graduates as well as thank our generous hosts who provided warm hospitality for our S3S parties throughout the year.
Many thanks to our hosts ---
Sharon, Don, and Cheyenne Henry
Dave and Julie Blakesley (and family)
Patricia Fancher and Kelly Cooper
Anthony and Keri Collamati (and family)
Victor, Toni, and Roman Vitanza
Jimmy and Lauren Butts
We look forward to another great year starting in August -- See you then!
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| (Jimmy Butts, Kelly Cooper, and Lauren Butts at the April S3S Party hosted by the Blakesleys) |
03 April 2012
4th-Years Accept Faculty Positions
Congratulations to 4th-year RCID candidates (and soon-to-be graduates) on their newly accepted faculty positions across the country:
Nicole McFarlane has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (Rhetoric/Composition) position at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, NC.
Nicole Snell has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Information Design and Corporate Communication (IDCC) at Bentley University in Waltham, MA.
Anthony Collamati has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of New Media Studies in the interdisciplinary Communication and New Media Studies program at Alma College in Alma, MI.
Curtis Newbold has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Communication, New Media and Technical Communication in the Professional Communication program at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT.
26 March 2012
Lauren Mitchell Passes Exams
Lauren's study draws on a provocative mixture of elements, including her architectural background, rhetorical theories of electrate invention, and her time in Myrtle Beach, SC. Through her dissertation, Lauren will defend the claim for architecture that, "without balancing our emphasis on design as making form as well as making forms of knowledge, the field will progressively make less and less impact in public environments." 
To see photos of Lauren's exam presentation, visit the RCID News Blog.
14 March 2012
Carolina Rhetoric Conference a Success!
READ MORE at the Clemson Grad School News Site: HERE.
S3S wants to thank all of the supporters, including the Rhetoric Society of America, Clemson Graduate School, Graduate Student Government, Dean's Office in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities, The Campbell Chair of Technical Communication, Parlor Press, the Hendrix Student Center, and the many faculty, friends, and students of RCID.
The 2013 Carolina Rhetoric Conference will be hosted by the graduate students at North Carolina State University.
10 March 2012
RCID Research in the News
Rock Hill, SC's newspaper The Herald is running full spread features as part of their promotion for the traveling Peanuts Naturally exhibit coming to the York County Museum. As part of their first feature, Herald editor Paul Osmundson recently spoke with RCID PhD candidate Stephen Lind about his dissertation research on the Peanuts franchise. Read the full interview HERE.
02 March 2012
Jimmy Butts passes "strange" Exams
Jimmy's dissertation topic explores how Victor Shklovsky’s concept of defamiliarization functions rhetorically across different forms of composition and media. The ethics underlying his writing works against the flood of totalizing immersive media when they elicit only automatic or anesthetized responses from their contemporary audiences.
The project hopes to complicate expectations of standardization by seeing both potential and problems in normative and unusual compositions. He will work through seven forms of inventional strategies for strangeness including figural shifts in media, time traveling, replacement, addition & subtraction, negation, glossolalia, and exponentiation.During a short reception in Clemson's Class of 1941 Studio, those in attendance were invited to "strange" the familiarity of stones, followed by Jimmy's aesthetically moving multi-modal performance.
Congratulations, Jimmy, from S3S!
19 February 2012
Steve Holmes Passes Exams!
S3S's 2010-2011 Vice President and now RCID doctoral candidate Steve Holmes passed his comprehensive/qualifying exams, back in December.
On December 9, Steve presented his multimodal portion of the exams, titled, "Electrate Invention in the Parliament of Things," having completed his written exams in his areas of specialization: object-oriented rheorics, Heuretics/Euretics, and Tool-Being.
Steve's dissertation explores realism and materialism in relationship over the history of rhetorical theory. By tracing the disappearance of realism and the onset epistemic, social constructivist, semiotic, and poststructuralist paradigms in the 20th century, Steve explores how rhetoric came to prominence under these anti-realist theories of materiality, a situation best epitomized by Jacques Derrida's description of materiality as "matter without substance" (e.g. without a reality independent of linguistic construction).
Steve's dissertation foregrounds the work of new movements in affective and feminist theories of materiality and the broader movement of speculative realism in the work of Graham Harman, Bruno Latour, Timothy Morton, Levi Bryant, Jane Bennett, Vickie Kirby and Karen Barad as a way to talk again about the reality of nature and the nonhuman. The dissertation then considers how realism can inform theories and pedagogies related to rhetorical invention in digital and networked ecologies, drawing specific attention to the work of hardware and software studies and new media artists who foreground the materiality of media ecologies. Drawing on Gregory Ulmer's scholarship, he intends to create additional multimodal components that will bear witness to new idioms of the ways in which we have always dwelled with the nonhuman element.
A hearty, albeit belated, congratulations to (ABD) RCID doctoral candidate Steve Holmes from S3S!
22 January 2012
Publications - Check them out!
Welcome to 2012! As we begin the new year/semester, we want to make note of some great articles and reviews from our current S3S members!
Check out these works published over the past semester:
Colton, Jared. Review of Inessential Solidarity: Rhetoric and Foreigner Relations, by Diane Davis. Rhetoric Review 31.1 (2012): 88-92.
Fancher, Patricia, Carl Whithaus, and Andrew Mara. Review of Marshall
McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland. Enculturation 12 (2011).
Lind, Stephen J. Review of American Puppet Modernism, by John Bell. Text and Performance Quarterly 31.4 (2011): 455-456.
And watch for these articles coming in 2012:
Byrum, Kristie. “How (and Why) to Create A Corporate Social Responsibility Platform.” A Guide to Best Practices in Corporate Social Responsiblity & Green PR. Vol. 4. by PR News. Access Intelligence, 2012.
Holmes, Steven. (Provisional title) “Would Socrates Approve this Message? From Social Realism to Rhetorical 'Allegorithms' as Gaming Activism in Markus Persson's Minecraft.” Games of Words. Ed. Zachary Waggoner. Macmillan, 2012.
Holmes, Steve. “Wither Ecocriticsm in the Era of Hyperobjects?” Review of Ecology Without Nature and The Ecological Thought, by Timothy Morton. Journal of Ecocriticism (2012).
Lind, Stephen J. “Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication.” Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication. Ed. Emily Plec. Routledge, 2012.
Lind, Stephen J. “Teaching Digital Oratory: Public Speaking 2.0.” Communication Teacher 26 (2012).
McFarlane, Nicole. “Digital Memory and Narrative through 'African American Rhetoric[s] 2.0'” Review of Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric by Vorris Nunley and Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age by Adam Banks. Enculturation (2012).
Well done, all!
10 December 2011
Annual Holiday Party!
Many thanks to the Collamati family for hosting another wonderful annual holiday party! 4th-year RCID candidate Anthony Collamati (pictured) and his wife Keri hosted the party at their home, complete with the annual secret-recipe meatballs, Chipmunk music from the record player, and the always-exciting gift swap. The gift swap this year featured several Gorgias Society mugs, a breadmaker, a highly-coveted ream of paper, and a lovely box of fresh beets. S3S extends a warm Thank You to all the RCID faculty, students, and friends for another great semester --- see you in 2012!
15 November 2011
Clemson Awarded RSA Grant for CRC
RSA is proud to announce that Clemson University’s RSA Student Chapter is the sole recipient of the 2011-2012 RSA Graduate Student Special Event Award. They will receive $2450 in support of the Carolina Rhetoric Conference.
The award committee reviewed numerous proposals for interesting and important graduate student events around the country. However, Clemson’s proposal distinguished itself by demonstrating a wide-reaching opportunity for graduate students of rhetoric. The award committee was particularly impressed by Clemson’s effort to reach across many graduate programs, to create numerous venues for students’ scholarly and professional development, and to utilize digital technologies creatively.
In February 2012, Clemson's RSA chapter will host the Carolina Rhetoric Conference (CRC), an annual event that brings together graduate students from North and South Carolina. The CRC provides graduate students in the region with opportunities to share their research, build a network of rhetoric scholars in the Carolinas, and to receive feedback on conference presentations before presenting at major national conventions. The event is alternatively hosted by RSA chapters at NC State, the University of South Carolina, and Clemson. This year, Clemson plans to expand the conference by inviting graduate students from additional rhetoric programs. In addition, they plan to include various networking events, a digital showcase, keynote speakers, workshops, and live blogging during the event followed by a series of round-up blogs after the event.
31 October 2011
Meeting Extraordinary Chileans
Third-year RCID student Walter Iriarte has returned from a trip to D.C. where he visited a special exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History on theChilean Mine Rescue. Because the rescue attracted over a billion viewers (according to the current Chilean Minister of Public Works) and especially because two of the miners were known to have written poems while entrapped, Walter was drawn to the exhibit as an important piece in his current dissertation project. Artifacts from the ordeal were on display, poems and writings sent between the miners and their families being of particular interest to Walter. Also on display was the Fenix 2 backup capsule.
The highlight of Walter’s trip, though, was the Smithsonian Institute hosted workshop and presentation featuring Minister Laurence Golborne (organizer of the rescue mission) and Luis Urzua (the last miner to be extracted). Before the official presentations began, Walter had the honor of interviewing both Minister Golborne and Don (Mr.) Urzua. During the presentation, the speakers shared with the guests various stories not known to the public. Both Golborne and Urzua also took time to discuss what critical factors contributed to their survival. “The exchange between us was incredibly meaningful and abundant,” reported Walter. “The experience has already initiated another project which will be in works after the dissertation. I am very thankful for the opportunity and look forward to sharing some of the information during my oral defense."
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