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Dave Blakesley

@dblakesley.bsky.social
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Parlor Press publisher, writer, Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design at Clemson, Padres fan, Warriors fan, amateur astronomer.

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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Jimmy Butts, Matthew Blakesley, and I are keeping the proposal window open a little while longer for The Sophist's Cookbook! If you have an idea for a recipe and a story, submit something! kraa.io/sophists_coo... The deadline is now March 2.
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Here it is, a modern masterpiece by my friend and colleague @drsbk.bsky.social, parlorpress.com/products/pla..., hot off the press.
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Plato's Nightmare
This poetic-rhetorical-epic-treatise traces the theme of disembodiment across historical, philosophical, literary, and rhetorical concepts and periods.
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
@austinkleon.bsky.social Clearly engrossed.
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Salvo @salvo7.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New book; free download! Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries. Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...
Cover of the book Artificial Infrastructures by Salvo & Sherrill. Writing & Artificial Intelligence, literacy & technology: Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Here's an excellent review of Mark Mussman's Steal the Street: The Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification (Parlor Press, 2022) by Mike Templeton. bit.ly/steal-the-st...
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Steal the Street: the Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification. The New Book by Mark Mussman - Welcome to UACC
By Mike Templeton The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, a community partner of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, provides material assistance to people in Cincinnati struggling with home...
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Let's count it down. bit.ly/end-in-sight
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Full Screen Countdown to Jan 20, 2029 in Washington DC, District of Columbia
This countdown counter counts down days, hours, minutes and seconds to new year or another date
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Interesting conversation with a graduate student about his dissertation. "In the Year 2525" popped into my head. Hear ye, rhetoricians! It's from the album, "Exordium and Terminus." The looming dystopia seems much too far off, but by the end, "it was only yesterday." Boom. youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?...
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Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525
YouTube video by eitan19611
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Publisher @dblakesley @parlorpress.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Here's a new review by Michael Quinn of Kevin Brown's Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo.... Thanksgiving-themed!
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Quinn on Books: In Search of Lost Time
Review of “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance,” by Kevin Brown Review by Michael Quinn   “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “…
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Two ideas come to mind, precedence beyond mathematics: Humans are "inventors of the negative" (Kenneth Burke) and presence is always already absent (Derrida et al.). Zero! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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This is Your Brain on Zero
Researchers are finally unraveling how the mind processes nothing.
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Dave Blakesley @dblakesley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
First post. Three of my best buddies. L-R: Flo, Steph, and KT (Steph and KT, aka the Splash Sisters). Happy Holidays!
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