<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello!</div><div>I am very interested in this thread. I am curious what scholars/theorists/readings people are using to help make sense of cult-formation, myth-making, etc. I know a few that I find helpful and have taught include:</div><div><ul><li>Kenneth Burke's dramatism</li><li>MacIntyre, Alasdair. <i>After Virtue</i>. (In particular his insights on the role of characters.)<br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bormann, Ernest G. "Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality." </span><i style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Quarterly journal of speech</i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 58, no. 4 (1972): 396-407.</span><br></li><li>Fisher, Walter R. "Narration as a human communication paradigm: The case of public moral argument." Communications Monographs 51, no. 1 (1984): 1-22.<br></li><li>Ernst Cassirer, <i>Language and Myth</i>.<br></li></ul></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Misti Yang</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><div><span style="font-style:italic">Doctoral Candidate and Instructor </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Pronouns: she, her, hers</i></span><span style="font-style:italic"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.mistiyang.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.mistiyang.com</a><br></div>Department of Communication | The University of Maryland<br></div>0107 Skinner Building, 4300 Chapel Lane<br></div><span style="font-size:12.8px">College Park, MD 20742</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:15 AM Sharon Traweek <<a href="mailto:traweek@history.ucla.edu">traweek@history.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thank you very much for the link to an article by <em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:normal">Joshua Roebke [MS, Theoretical
High Energy Physics, </span></em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">McGill
University, Montréal], <span><span>Institute for Historical Studies</span></span>, Univ of Texas, Austin<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.joshuaroebke.com/" target="_blank">https://www.joshuaroebke.com/</a>
<span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://www.joshuaroebke.com/articles/" target="_blank">https://www.joshuaroebke.com/articles/</a><span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://ugs.utexas.edu/tsi/faculty-profiles" target="_blank">https://ugs.utexas.edu/tsi/faculty-profiles</a><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-style:normal">“Opinion:
</span></em><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scoundrels, Saints, and the Fiction of Individual Genius</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">.
<span style="color:black">In the shadows of every celebrated scientist, there are other contributors who may be more deserving of our adulation.”
<i>Undark,</i> 20 Oct 2020<i> </i></span></span><i><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://undark.org/2020/10/22/the-fiction-of-individual-genius/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style:normal">https://undark.org/2020/10/22/the-fiction-of-individual-genius/</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">I also recommend this Roebke article on</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> race and gender in high energy physics</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><em>:</em></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span><em><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal">
</span></em><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">“The Standard Model,”
</span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">Joyland</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif">, Issue 10, Oct 2020</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://joylandmagazine.com/uncategorized/standard-model/?fbclid=IwAR1VALqswPivKt5e-7YyVRXePl-euslbFow3CIYlSxZd5r5Xcs1B0IvEuf8" target="_blank">https://joylandmagazine.com/uncategorized/standard-model/?fbclid=IwAR1VALqswPivKt5e-7YyVRXePl-euslbFow3CIYlSxZd5r5Xcs1B0IvEuf8</a><u></u> <u></u></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] Debunking the myth of individual genius</font>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Hope everyone is safe and well.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Here is an article on the importance of looking beyond the mythologies and cults of genius in the history of science and tech.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fundark.org%2f2020%2f10%2f22%2fthe-fiction-of-individual-genius%2f&c=E,1,zSJ4vpB4KaeiSCfDXUtpGaDeuowkE6aW4gmiCvCUYOWdr0NSn0T9QMaeE5BWGQuxbb8a5nA1upjF8wWloVC9E9hulaD6G7pfuau27-4OCg,,&typo=1" target="_blank">https://undark.org/2020/10/22/the-fiction-of-individual-genius/</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">However, I would argue that in computer history as everywhere else in the history of science and tech, debunking is not enough – we must understand the reasons, cultures and process of cult-formation and
myth-making that plays such an influential role in our understanding of the past. That’s something I’m exploring in an article on John von Neumann that I recently submitted for publication review (“Creation Myths”). Am also looking at the formation of political
personality cults in a seminar I am teaching this semester.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt">Barbara Walker</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black">Barbara Walker</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">
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