ABSTRACT

In this essay, I redefine a conception of text as a nowing. Resisting the linear argumentative form of the scholarly journal article, I opt for an internal dialogue as a form of argumentation. The circularity of this method performs the argument of time in rhetoric while elevating endnotes to the importance of the text at the top. I then identify three paradoxes in Aristotle’s argument of time in his Physics: presence as absence, identity as difference, and whole as parts. In analyzing these paradoxes, rhetoricians can gain new heuristic vocabularies to speak and write about time in time. Finally, I apply this understanding of time to a text that has been developing in the last three decades in México: La Caída del Sistema.

摘要

在本文中，我重新定义了文本的概念。为了抵制学术期刊文章的线性论证形式，我选择了内部对话作为论证形式。此方法的圆度性以修辞方式执行时间论证，同时将尾注提高到顶部文本的重要性。然后，我在亚里士多德关于物理学的时间论中指出了三个悖论：存在是缺席，身份是差异，整体是组成部分。在分析这些悖论时，修辞学家可以获取新的启发式词汇，以及时地讲和写时间。最后，我将对时间的理解应用于最近三十年来在墨西哥发展的一部著作：《 LaCaídadel Sistema》。