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Insignificant Wranglings
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Tebow a Character Pick?
I have nothing against ethos, and I’m sure, after recent events, Josh McDaniels is looking forward to working with a contentious, diligent, and respectful player. As one of the many talking heads I listened to this morning said: Tebow is … Continue reading
Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Corporate Executives?
The Electronic Freedom Foundation has a Mxrk-style annotated post up concerning the “Comments of the Creative Community Organizations.” Thoughts: I think we all agree that artists deserve to be compensated for their work and that outright stealing is wrong. But, … Continue reading
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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Foucault for Thursday
Most of my leisurely writing lately has been dedicated to baseball, but I spent some time this morning preparing the following for a undergraduate student reading Foucault for the first time. Her project this semester has been dedicated to queer … Continue reading
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
This is Much Better than a Flying Car
Remember Geordi Laforge from Star Trek? Well there’s an article in the Guardian.uk on a device that translates impulses on the tongue into visual data, effectively allowing blind people to see. Seriously, sometimes science rocks.
Posted in cool, cyborg, posthuman, technology
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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
Skepticism Toward Logic in the Wake of the Holocaust
The nicest part of teaching expository writing as blogging is the great variety of student projects I get to enjoy. This semester, I have one particularly talented student working on absurdist and existential literature. She recently read and commented on … Continue reading
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New Ok Go Video
Honestly, I’m not really a big fan of this band. I thought their first hit, “Here it Goes Again,” was catchy but borderline annoying. The video was engaging. That said, the single extended shot chicanery in their new video is … Continue reading
There Can Only Be Five
Yesterday an MFA student considering a PhD in R/C asked me for a short list of articles to introduce her to R/C. She has been accepted to several strong programs, but is debating between pursuing R/C or Creative Writing Studies. … Continue reading
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