Category Archives: weinberger

Messiness as a Virtue

Posted on March 8, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’m re-reading Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous today for my New Media class and really appreciating his chapter “Messiness as a Virtue.” Two passages worth sharing (i.e., remembering): Simplicity was the only reasonable strategy before we developed machines that can handle … Continue reading →

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“Unschooling” and David Weinberger

Posted on July 12, 2011 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today a student shared a piece appearing over at the Washington post on education, focusing on debates over class sizes. The piece details two general approaches to education–the first teacher driven, the second student driven. This second approach the article … Continue reading →

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Joseph Pew and Latour’s Third Position

Posted on June 17, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Dave Weinberger has a live blog up today from Google’s Chief Technology Advocate Michael T. Jones. Jones quotes Joseph Pew (1946): “Tell the truth and trust the people.” A quick search for the quote led me to the Pew history … Continue reading →

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A Great Page from Everything is Miscellaneous

Posted on June 15, 2009 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’m finishing up another read of David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous–wow do I enjoy this book. I wanted to post this passage to my living memory since I think it would make a nice opening to my Historical Rhetorics seminar … Continue reading →

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Levinas and Weinberger

Posted on September 29, 2008 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

In jest, I offer my dissertation in two quotes. The other pages are just filler. Levinas on difference as the foundation of the subject: Reason makes human society possible; but a society whose members would be only reasons would vanish … Continue reading →

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