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Bruno Latour and Metaphysics

I don’t remember this passage in Harman’s Prince of Networks, but its a nice one from Latour’s Laboratory Life: Specific to this laboratory is the particular configurations of apparatus that we have called inscription devices. The central importance of this … Continue reading

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Music / January / 2011

In keeping with my New Years resolution, here’s the albums I’ve picked up since my last post: Black Keys’ Rubber Factory – A very solid album, rarely do I find myself skipping a track when this comes up on a … Continue reading

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Harman’s Tool-Being

Graham Harman’s Tool-Being (along with several other of his works) is on my radar, although I have no idea when I’ll find time to read it. I came across a review of Harman’s book today at Dark Chemistry, and this … Continue reading

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Week One, Spring 2011

Our first week of classes is coming to a close. My New Media class read Walter Ong’s “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” and will be remediating the essay into (x)html this weekend. I haven’t read that article in … Continue reading

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Trying to Listen to More Music

Meg got me a new iPod for Christmas. I haven’t really bought any new music in probably 5 years (I think the last new album I purchased was Arctic Monkey’s Favorite Worst Nightmare in 2007). So I’m trying to reconnect … Continue reading

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M&M Eat

As I said in the previous post, Meg and I have talked about creating a food blog since we moved to Florida. Call it New Year’s initiative, because I finally made one: M&M Eat. Happy New Year everyone, good luck … Continue reading

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M&M Eat Out / 717 South

Meg and I have talked for awhile about writing a food blog. Its mostly because I have the world’s worst memory and can never remember if I liked a place or not. Here’s a quick start. Tonight we went out … Continue reading

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End of Semester Blues

Tomorrow night is my last night of Fall 2010–which has been my favorite semester thus far at University of South Florida. My Contemporary Rhetorics class was awesome; we enjoyed a guest interview with Thomas Rickert, read D. Diane Davis’ new … Continue reading

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Poor, Neglected Blog

Sorry I haven’t been kinder to you. Right now I’m trying to finish two articles, complete revisions for an accepted piece, finish a book review, write a gaggle of letters of rec, teach my contemporary rhetorics grad class for the … Continue reading

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Berlin, Vitanza, and Self/Assessment

Last night my graduate course on Contemporary Rhetoric spent some time in 1996; we discussed two important treatments of postmodern theory in Rhetoric and Composition–Vitanza and Berlin. Below is the lecture I gave. Those who shared a former life with … Continue reading

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