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Insignificant Wranglings
Author Archives: insignificantwrangler@gmail.com
Another Reason to Love the Interweb
So this obnoxious sports writer, Kevin Hench of Fox Sports, writes a weekly Hit List in which he takes shots at athletes swirling the drain. This past week, he made disparaging comments on Tampa Bay Ray’s outfielder Rocco Baldelli, essentially … Continue reading
Posted in sports
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Future of Sports
For the past few years I’ve been arguing that the steroids controversy in baseball is about much more that the purity of sport- it touches the incredible transformations medical science will bring to biology. It is about our relationship to … Continue reading
Posted in posthuman, science, sports, theory-in-practice
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Shouldn’t This Be Bigger News
Came across this story on artificial intelligence this morning. Let’s put it alongside this: I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all … Continue reading
Posted in productive mess, technology
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Notes on Of Grammatology
It took me a bit to get started, but here we go… If, as Derrida suggests, writing threatens language, then digital technology extends this threatening, by engaging so many more people in the “play.” As the actors gather, as the … Continue reading
Posted in derrida, diss, theory, wiki, writing-tech
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Sometimes the “Rhetoric of Change” Really Means Change
I wanted to share Norm Scheiber’s article “The Audacity of Data” on Obama’s economic theory. It seems that Obama strays from traditional political philosophy in favor of something which Scheiber labels as “non-ideological” but which I might refer to as … Continue reading
Posted in bordieu, complexity, obama, politics, rhetoric, theory, theory-in-practice
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del.icio.us (victory-is-mine)
Meg and I are preparing for our first real date since Rowan was born (6 months)- tonight’s Ben Folds concert. I wish I saw him with the Five, but I’m still excited for the show. I just sent of a … Continue reading
Posted in computers-and-writing, del.icio.us, diss, theory-in-practice, victory-is-mine, writing-tech
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Page123
I’ve seen this page123 meme floating around the web a bit (most recently over at Pedagogical Gregory), and I figured “hey, I like doing stuff,” so here we go. First, the rules: Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages … Continue reading
Time to Shop for Sun Block
Its unofficially official: I have accepted a position with the University of South Florida. The job focuses on teaching the history of rhetoric at the graduate level and will also involve undergraduate courses on contemporary rhetorical theory, visual rhetoric, professional … Continue reading
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I’ll Be Surfacing Soon
To everyone who asked… yes I am still alive. The job search is nearing a close, but it looks like I’ll have to make some pretty tough decisions before this is all over. I don’t want to blog about it … Continue reading
Posted in baseball, net-neutrality, politics, sports
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I haven’t felt this miserable…
…since my first dog died when I was eight years old. Seriously. And to make matters worse, I wasn’t even able to watch the game (out for dinner on a campus visit).