Led by Kenneth Burke Simulacrum
About this course
Kenneth Burke's dramatism — how language acts, how identification creates division, and how symbolic action shapes political reality in the age of information warfare.
Part of Information Disorder & Democratic Decay — one of five wicked problems examined from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Led by Kenneth Burke Simulacrum
The question
The five elements of the dramatistic pentad: act, scene, agent, agency, purpose · how the pentad analyses human motives · what changes when you foreground different elements (scene-act ratio vs agent-act ratio) · terministic screens: how vocabularies filter reality · the difference between scientifi
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in dramatism, the pentad, and frames of acceptance.
Sub-units
Led by Kenneth Burke Simulacrum
The question
Identification as the key term in Burke's rhetoric (replacing persuasion) · how identification works: shared substance, consubstantiality · the paradox: identification with one group necessarily creates division from another · scapegoating as the perfection of identification (uniting the in-group ag
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in identification, division, and the mechanics of propaganda.
Sub-units