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Contemporary Rhetoric 2014 Week Two

Lyotard, Readings, and the “Ruined” University Lyotard’s Postmodern Condition Key Terms: Language games, meta-narratives, legitimation, delegitimation, performativity, displacement/dissensus,  Key Points/Pages: Offers a definition of po-mo (xxiv) Failures of Marxism and the Critical Tradition (13) Tensions between Narrative knowledge and Scientific knowledge … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week Two

Tuesday: Ulmer and Electracy Today’s plan: 1. Address Ulmer’s Electronic Monuments 2. Ulmer’s interest in Haiku To begin approaching Ulmer, I want to return to some of the binaries I laid out while we were discussing Ong. This will give us … Continue reading

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New Media Spring 2014 Week One

Tuesday  Hi all. Welcome to New Media. This post will help us walk through what I hope to accomplish in class today.  First, we will review the syllabus. HEY SANTOS: Remember to take attendance.  Second, we will set up accounts … Continue reading

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Contemporary Rhetorics 2014 Week One

Kant and/as Enlightenment Hello world. You have stumbled upon some lecture notes for my graduate seminar in Contemporary Rhetorics at the University of South Florida. In preparation for our first class session, students read Kant’s essay “An Answer to the … Continue reading

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On Sirc, Reaching for the Serial and the Pithy

For today’s Expository Writing class we read Sirc’s 2010 essay “Serial Composition,” which asks why writing instruction has remained tied to the same form for the past 150 years. Sirc imagines whether writing instruction could have followed architecture, painting, sculpture, … Continue reading

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Expository Writing, Postpedagogy, Summer 2013

This summer I find myself teaching another section of Expository Writing, an upper-division writing course and graduation requirement. For the past few years I have taught the course in a fairly eccentric way, one that matches up with my proclivities … Continue reading

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Latour and “Delegation”

I’m researching Latour’s views on Christianity for a revise and resubmit and came along this passage near the end of We Have Never Been Modern. I don’t know how many times I have read this book, but I never recognized … Continue reading

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CCCC’s Recap #1: Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel”

While at CCCC’s, I had the pleasure of attending Steven Mailloux, D. Diane Davis, and Michelle Ballif’s panel “Expanding Rhetorical Publics: the Zoo, the Cemetery, and the Chapel.” Mailloux’s talk “Human Acts, Divine Publics” wonders whether it is possible to … Continue reading

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Red Sox Hot Stove Season

After last year’s disappointment, I guess it is not too surprising the Red Sox have had such an active off-season. My biggest fear after 2012 was that the Sox would aggressively overpay for free agents after the Dodgers trade out … Continue reading

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Spring Book Order

As we put another semester in the books, its time to place the book orders for the Spring. Here’s what I have on order: Rhetoric and Gaming Bogost, Persuasive Games McGonigal, Reality is Broken Fille and Platten, The Ultimate Guide … Continue reading

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