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Contemporary Rhetorics Week Three

Peyton Manning, the Playoffs, and the Ontic/Ontological Question I wanted to follow up on one of Lauren’s questions from the end of last class–what is the difference between ontic and ontological? Heidegger addresses this early in the essay–it is the … Continue reading

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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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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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Health Care Passes

I’m sitting in a meeting, prepping to be a live Blogger during the RNC (scheduled to be held in Tampa). And, during the meeting, I’ve been following the anticipated Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Healthcare Act (its being covered … Continue reading

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Twain on Writing Ecologies (err, Plagiarism)

I stumbled upon this today over at Letters of Note, a letter from Mark Twain to Helen Keller after he learned she had been accused of plagiarism. Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that … Continue reading

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Kevin Smith on Digital Economics

So I just discovered Reddit’s series of interviews, IAMA. There’s one with Kevin Smith, in which he responds to a question on digital copyright. His response reminds me of the argument forwarded by Lessig years ago in Remix: Here’s my … Continue reading

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Facebook is Down

A quick post to let everyone know that my Facebook is down right now. I probably won’t be back on until next week. So if you are sending me stuff, I’m not ignoring you. Feel free to email me at … Continue reading

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