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Insignificant Wranglings
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When the world becomes art
Artist Rodrigo Derteano’s robot constructed Ciudad Nazca in the deserts of Peru. Via Coudal Partners
Writing
I spent most of today writing up my Nussbaum/Sloterdijk/Ulmer/SF Zero article, turning handwritten rough draft into (sloppily) typed rough draft. A fun process. Essentially, I critique Nussbaum’s connection between critical thinking and empathy, and argue instead for a post-pedagogical, non-critical, … Continue reading
Posted in complexity, deconstruction, derrida, mark-c-taylor, nussbaum
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Fall 2011 Reading Lists
I was doing so well posting here. I even got a comment from Dave Weinberger. And then last week happened. I spent most of today finishing my syllabi for the fall and submitting my book orders. Here’s how my two … Continue reading
Posted in historical-rhetorics, new-media-class, teaching
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“Unschooling” and David Weinberger
Today a student shared a piece appearing over at the Washington post on education, focusing on debates over class sizes. The piece details two general approaches to education–the first teacher driven, the second student driven. This second approach the article … Continue reading
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Teaching a Philosophy of Life
Today’s snippet comes from a student’s paper defending the value of his liberal arts major. One of the questions I posed this semester, while reading Academically Adrift and Not For Profit was whether Universities’ missions included teaching values, or whether … Continue reading
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Rotten With Perfection
Burke fans will probably enjoy today’s offerings from one of my favorite sites, Slaughterhouse 90210.
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Ethical Learning, Responsibility, and Assessment
A long time ago, when I first became enamored with the possibilities of digital communication and deconstruction, I remember constructing a piece on spectrality and student work. I was proud when the piece won a Parlor Press award at Purdue … Continue reading
Posted in academically-adrift, assessment, ethics, levians, nussbaum, responsibility, standardization
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Very Large Finitude and Ecological Irony
Figure/Ground is featuring an interview with Timothy Morton, professor of ecology, theory, and literature. Morton was first brought to my attention last fall by a grad student in my Contemporary Rhetorics class. This snippet from the interview grabbed my attention, … Continue reading
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Post-Pedagogy and Kairotic Techne
Today’s post builds off yesterdays in connection with a conversation on Facebook. A friend tagged me in a query on teaching blogging, so I pointed her toward my blogging syllabus as an example of post-pedagogy. What marks that curriculum as … Continue reading
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Post-Pedagogy as Performing Empathy
Week two of trying to post something every day. I spent this morning working on an article responding to Martha Nussbaum’s Not For Profit. Here’s a snippet dealing with post-pedagogy. In place of pedagogies of control insisting upon the traditional … Continue reading