Got a new article up at totalpropaganda.net. It's part one of a three-part essay about the deep roots of what I've started calling "replacement ideology," which is to say a fear of demographic replacement and the attendant belief that aggressive measures are necessary to rid the national community of outsiders.

That way of thinking didn't start with the term "The Great Replacement," which has only been in widespread usage for the past 15 years or so, but to get the discussion started, this post looks at the guy who coined the term, what he meant by it, and how his explanation functions as "constitutive rhetoric."

I'll hold off on a detailed explanation here, but suffice to say that constitutive rhetoric doesn't try to convince people to change their minds so much as it tells people who they are and that they should act accordingly. It's something that comes up a lot in nationalist movements, go figure.

At any rate, I (a giant nerd) think it's interesting stuff, but I wouldn't bother writing it all out like this if I didn't think it could also help people understand just how racist, xenophobic, and, yes, fascist ideas spread and motivate action. Regardless of what that gazillionaire author says, where there is violence, violent language is never far away.

https://totalpropaganda.net/2025/09/18/is-there-a-great-replacement-if-you-cant-read-french/

#GreatReplacement #RenaudCamus #Camus #ConstitutiveRhetoric #TotalPropaganda #xenophobia #fascism #identitarianism #Althusser #KennethBurke #MauriceCharland

INT. HIDEOUT - SUNDAY
Thru the archives...two great books that informed the final chapters...Hollywood industrial practice - negotiating the hierarchies - and pedagogy, symbolic action.

#KennethBurke & #rhetoric floats above it all.

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Film-Mavericks-in-Action-by-Alan-Taylor/9783631715925

Encouraging #rhetoric folk towards
https://www.kbjournal.org/users/kinowords 

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A Monday dose of rhetorical studies?  

#KennethBurke goes to college...🎓

https://prezi.com/udoj2hypcdp0/kenneth-burke-and-media-literacy/

#MediaLiteracy and #Journalism

INT. WINTER HIDEOUT - DAY
Good that I kept records of the book's emergence
...photocopying! cover design!...first notes!  
#KennethBurke #rhetoric & #NewHollywood #FilmStudies 🎬 📚

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Alan-Taylor/author/B091J7RBVC?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

INT/EXT. WINTER HIDEOUT - DAY

Retrieve!
 - the three notebooks!  🎬

Lingering in Berlin for too long...the symbol-using animals.

#Scorsese #Coppola #Bogdanovich and #MichaelCimino

...plus special guest appearance by #KennethBurke
- the #Rhetoric Man!

#FilmStudies

https://www.amazon.com/Film-Mavericks-Action-Hollywood-Rhetoric/dp/363163563X

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(Duncan intro to Burke's, Permanence and Change, xiii)

#KennethBurke
#Rhetoric
#CriticalTheory
#AcademicForum

RIP news just in...😔

'Wess attended the 1984 conference at which the Kenneth Burke Society (KBS) was formed, received KBS’s Distinguished Service Award in 1999, served on KBS’s Executive Committee from 2002 to 2011, and was KBS President from 2005 to 2008.'

https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/robert-wess

#KennethBurke #rhetoric