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Assignment 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Manifesto: the Image of Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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length<\/em>: \u00a02.5-3 pages<\/strong><\/p>\n

due dates<\/em>: \u00a0\u00a08.6 (proposal), 8.7 (draft), \u00a08.8 (final<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The manifesto as we have discussed it thus far is a genre of interruption, disruption, intervention\u2014an assertion in the face of some undesirable scenario of a set of principles and actions that might resolve or mitigate that scenario. \u00a0Historically it has often but not always been a politically oriented genre; specifically, it is generally a genre label applied to statements made by groups outside of the mainstream, or at least groups that view themselves as being outside of the mainstream. \u00a0Writing a manifesto is a way of raising one’s voice, of speaking loudly and assertively and jarringly enough to get noticed where other articulations of the same points might not otherwise get noticed or make any headway against the status quo. \u00a0Manifestos are thus a more intrinsically creative (and perhaps also destructive) form than the analytical essays we spent the first few weeks on. \u00a0This should be some of the most adventurous, experimental, attention-grabbing writing you’ve done this summer, if not ever. \u00a0These qualities can be a product of style, tone, structure, presentation, typography, visual design, etc.\u2014any number of which ought to reinforce the novelty and importance of the principles you are proposing. \u00a0Your writing and design should be as loud, as noticeable, as expressive as the ideas and principles being expressed; both your ideas and your expression of those ideas should make some noise. \u00a0This is not the time to be cold, dry, and analytical; it’s the time to summon all of your rhetorical aptitude, your command of the magic that is the rhetorical use of language (say some words, and poof, something happens!), to change something in the world (big or small) for the better.<\/p>\n

The main tasks of the manifesto are a)<\/strong> to carve out a rhetorical space for your particular intervention (by shaking your fist at the status quo in a way that people are inclined to notice and listen to\u2014the “mad as hell”<\/a> that inspires others to open their windows and shout), b)<\/strong> to plausibly establish the principles by which you mean to change the status quo, and c)<\/strong> to generate enough of an emotional response in your audience to spur further action. Think of your manifesto as the seed of something new, out of which a more desirable\u2014and in some way radically different\u2014future might grow. \u00a0It paints two images: \u00a0the undesirable, constricting, anxious scenario you and your audience are stuck in now, and the radical, disruptive change<\/a> promised by the new ideas and principles you are articulating.<\/p>\n

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Due: \u00a0<\/strong>Thursday night, 8.8.13\u00a0<\/em>by midnight,\u00a0via email (in PDF format<\/strong>!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assignment 5 Manifesto: the Image of Change     length: \u00a02.5-3 pages due dates: \u00a0\u00a08.6 (proposal), 8.7 (draft), \u00a08.8 (final) \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0 * \u00a0 \u00a0 * The manifesto as we have discussed it thus far is a genre of interruption, disruption, intervention\u2014an assertion in the face of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/140"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noendofneon.net\/image\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}