The third component we identify is coordination, which is a persistent challenge and polemic in the humanitarian sector (Stephenson 2005; Bisri 2016).
As Stephen Poole put it in a Guardian review of Media Lens's latest book, Newspeak in the 21st century, it's a useful irritant, albeit one which clothes its critique in "childishly apocalyptic polemic", artlessly framing its own narrative as truth challenging the "psychopathic corporate media".
Knights writes, "Polemical print... challenged conventional notions of how rhetoric worked and was a medium that facilitated slander, polemic, and satire.
The purpose is to generate new ideas and provide polemic clarity geared to intellectually challenge readers from across a range of academic and industrial disciplines.
This bold polemic challenges the argument that religion impeded progress in economics, science and politics, and contends that elements within Christianity actually nurtured such innovations.
Indeed, part of "The Judge and the Historian" is a polemic against those historians -- he often calls them postmodernists and poststructuralists -- who challenge the notion that there is any such thing as objective reality, facts or truth.
In books like "Against Love: A Polemic" and "How to Become a Scandal," Laura Kipnis has combined sharp analysis with blistering wit to challenge prevailing notions about love and sex, power and desire, hubris and retribution in American life.
Here and in a subsequent polemic (1994) Scruton, on behalf of classical architecture and in opposition to modern architecture (and successor movements and styles), challenges stylistic or critical commitments that do not embrace as central the production of beauty, harmony, and "appropriateness".
The latter offers up her polemic as a challenge to the world to improve.
Each of the houses shown here are polemics that challenge the cult of extravagance, a Tesla versus an Escalade.
