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Gmail is Awesome

Today I discovered that gmail prompt you with the question “did you forget to attach a document” if you write “attach” in an email and then hit send. Neat stuff. I was telling a student that I attached a reading … Continue reading

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Discrimination or a Bad Day?

Via Facebook, a story from Native News Network about a student suspended for using her native language in class. FTA: “The teacher went back to where the two were sitting and literally slammed her hand down on the desk and … Continue reading

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Dear Football Gods

Please, don’t let us lose to the Giants. I’ve had the pleasure of Super Bowl wins. They were dandy. That loss back in 07 really humbled us. I could lose to any other team and say, “wow, its been a … Continue reading

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Education in Ruins; a War of Nerves

I’ve talked about my love for Bill Reading’s The University in Ruins on this blog before. Today I came across a disturbing news item on Facebook that made me think of Reading’s warning, a warning echoed by Mark C. Taylor … Continue reading

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Digital Humanities

A friend emailed me Feisal G. Mohamed’s response to Fish’s recent discussion of digital humanities. Here’s my response. I think there’s two basic genealogies to digital humanities/technology studies. Reductive? Sure. But helpful. The first traces back to Heidegger’s “Question Concerning … Continue reading

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Web writing, postpedagogy, social expressivism, and Grassi

Leahy and I have been writing an article on web writing. Here’s one of my conclusions (I think I have 3 write now) for the theory section: We began this explication of social expressivism by highlighting Socratic traces in Elbow’s … Continue reading

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King Moonraiser

“Unlike playthings a living creature cannot hide himself on an island.”

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Dreams of Your Life

An installation site Dreams of Your Life to share with my New Media class next semester.

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Davis on Derrida; What Levinas Offers Latour

Via Blogora, a video lecture by D. Diane Davis on Derrida, deconstruction, gratitude, and debt: Derrida and gratitude: thinking always has a debt. “The image of the trail blazing subject, self sufficient and completely independent is, of course, a metaphysical … Continue reading

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Internet Metaphor

I posted a link to this NYT article to Facebook, but I wanted to keep this paragraph someplace where I could find it: Then again, the Internet is a new kind of barometer for keeping track of exactly how old … Continue reading

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