/library/oar/handle/123456789/123384 2025-12-24T13:30:49Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/37526 Title: About our contributors [Antae Journal, 5(3)] Abstract: Short biographies of the contributors in this issue. 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/37525 Title: Towards an agonistic account of democracy, conflict, and institutions Authors: Martinez, Usdin Abstract: In this paper, I offer a move back from a trend in political theory that posits strong divergence—even a contradiction—between two meanings of democracy. On the one hand, a liberal account of democracy conceives it as the set of institutions that shape a political regime and allow government; on the other, a radical tradition identifies democracy with a critical principle for transforming social order. By discussing these trends through the opposition between institution and conflict, I make the case for an agonistic approach of democratic institutions and conflict that relocates democracy both beyond liberalism and the radical tradition. I will do so by critically examining the works of Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour, principally, where a Machiavellian ontology of social conflict inhibits this agonistic approach. I then draw on the analysis of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière in order to argue for a political theory of democracy that accounts for this link. 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/37524 Title: Oral rhetoric and digital media : the Twitter campaign of the 2016 American presidential election Authors: Mifsud Joslin, Ben Abstract: The idea that social and other online media are key platforms for political rhetoric is hardly novel at this point. Few will deny the influence that Twitter had on the 2016 American Presidential Election as a means of engaging and communication with a wider audience. This paper questions what it means to be successful practitioner of online rhetoric, ultimately arguing that persuading a digital audience heavily involves knowing how to evoke their humanity in ways that been consistent since classical observations of rhetoric as an art and practice. Therefore, this paper explores the audio-visual qualities of Twitter which allowed Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders to use Twitter as a means of projecting an authentic human persona, particularly by emulating an oral mode of delivery through written social media posts. Simply put, their audiences should have been able to “hear” them through online posts, despite the fact that the primary means of engagement of Twitter is text. Ultimately, this paper argues that this sense of oral delivery is essential to our understanding of the 2016 election, as well as our conceptions of contemporary rhetoric. Twitter, as a digital space, has created a platform where we can conceptualise digital orators. 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/37523 Title: Introduction to Deadly Delusions #5 Authors: Mauer, Barry Abstract: Barry Mauer began the comic series Deadly Delusions in 2013 in response to the increasingly extreme and dangerous right-wing propaganda he had observed over the past several decades. His aim for the project has been to combine scholarship, maximal rhetorical force, and a punk do-it-yourself aesthetic. Deadly Delusions shifts away from debates about whether the media is biased or if it is fair to both sides. Rather, it asks whether the media is spreading mass delusion and pushing eliminationist policies. 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z