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Category Archives: levinas
Latour, Gorgias, and Levinas Take 15
This article keeps beating me up–every time I think I know what I am doing, it runs away. I believe I am finally whipping it in to shape, but I want to make sure the following paragraphs make sense to … Continue reading
Practicing Deconstruction Responsibly
I think deconstruction, when practiced well, is both destruction and construction. Derrida’s later work provides numerous examples of such positive practice. But this would just get us into a tired, commonplace exchange. In terms of changing the University, I am … Continue reading
Posted in assessment, bill-readings, deconstruction, derrida, excellence, levinas, nussbaum
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Rosenbaum on the New Agnosticism
Ron Rosenbaum has an article up on Slate.com that speaks to the possibility of a New Agnosticism (as a response to the New Atheism). Pretty much speaks to how I read Levinas, and why I was interested in his metaphysics. … Continue reading
Posted in agnosticism, consciousness, levinas, rosenbaum, slate
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Levinas, Ethics and Infinity
I’m currently reading through Levinas’s Ethics and Infinity, one of my summer reading books. I’ve still got a few chapters to go, but so far I appreciate Levinas’s concision. I like this book for the same reason that I like … Continue reading
An Insignificant MyStory (Part 3)
In between posts with Casey today, I did manage to get some work done. Particularly, I’m working on prepping for my summer course. I will be teaching a 6 week upper-division expository writing course. Usually, I teach expository writing as … Continue reading
Post Conferences Post
I just got back from RSA and Computers and Writing–two great weekends that left me both socially and professionally refreshed. I’m working today towards advancing both papers (one on social media, ethics, and Rowan’s cancer, the other on Latour, sophistry, … Continue reading
Toward Kair-erotically Thinking Techno-Determinism
I spent the morning today doing some reading/writing on my Computers and Writing presentation, which will deal explicitly with how social media played a role in diagnosing and dealing with my daughter’s cancer. One article that I read today was … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, computers-and-writing, corder, derrida, digital-citizenship, digital-media, ethics, internet, levinas, mcluhan, network, ong, posthuman, rhetoric, technology, web2.0
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A Not-So-Radical Approach to Teaching Final Papers
In my last post, I mentioned that I was trying something a bit different with my current expository writing class. I should say upfront that State and programatic expectations for the course don’t give me too much wiggle room. The … Continue reading
Posted in composition, digital-citizenship, levinas, pedagogy, teaching
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A Little Levinas for Monday
From the interview “Violence and the Face,” published in the 1999 Alterity and Transcendence. Levinas responds to a question on how his work differs from traditional philosophical investment in “historicism, materialism, structuralism, ontology”: I don’t say that all is for … Continue reading
Chickens, Eggs, Opinions, Identities
Today I asked my classes which of the following is more true: I pick my friends based on my beliefs I pick my beliefs based on my friends We were discussing the opening chapter to Crowley and Hawhee’s Ancient Rhetorics … Continue reading