Re: Narratives and pictionary

[Michael Bryant <MBRYANT@central.weber.edu>]

>
> Just out of curiosity, how would it be received as an answer to a narrative
> 1AC if our 1NC consisted of the presentation of emtionally compelling artwork
> (drawn by my roommate the art major) to negate the resolution.  This way I can
> be inclusive to the functionally illiterate and any members of the judging
> pool who happen to be members of lost civilizations and don't understand
> our speech.  Of course I'd be excluding the blind and the dead at the same
> time.  As a form of communication I can trace the style back to cave paintings
> and stories told on pottery.  Would this perhaps be a superior form of
> narrative?

I can understand the beauty of mixing narrative and humor, but
this is simply too offensive. Do you really mean to so cavalierly
dismiss the potential "communicative space" for those millions in our
society that you are so quickly label "functionally illiterate"? Your
rhetoric on "lost civilizations" is an independent development
kritik. I don't think you've considered the very hierarchy of
exclusion that you think is humor.

Try again,

Bear


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