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ENG 201 5.F: Katz’s “Ethic of Expediency”

Posted on February 8, 2019 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Discuss Katz Homework Katz’s “Ethic of Expediency” I asked four questions: What problem does Katz believe the memo exemplifies? Duh, the answer is expediency, but what does that term mean for Katz? What other terms/ideas/forces are operating with/through … Continue reading →

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ENG 225 2.W: Potential Project Games

Posted on January 15, 2019 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Review Sicart Questions Generate/Revise New Questions based on Chapter 4/5 reading List of Games Upcoming Calendar Wednesday in class: we’ll review the questions you have generated from the Sicart reading. We’ll also spend time in class putting together … Continue reading →

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ENG 225 1.F: Ethical Gaming / Gaming Journals

Posted on January 10, 2019 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Sicart discussion Gaming Journals Homework Sicart Discussion Our first task today is to discuss the Sicart (2013)reading. I want to open our discussion with Sicart’s three elements of moral-ethical gameplay: Because games are objects that are designed for … Continue reading →

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ENG 225 1.W: Introduction to Ethics

Posted on January 8, 2019 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Office Hours Introduction to Ethics / Project One Setting Up a Google Doc Homework Introduction to Ethics Today I want to give some sense of what constitutes ethics. I’ll start by attempting to differentiate ethics from morals. Both … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Theory 16.1 / Rhetoric and Ethics: When the Desire for Unity Meets an Insistence Upon Alterity

Posted on April 21, 2015 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Yesterday, as I was imagining what I would say to close this class, kairos happened. Originally, I thought I might return to our opening class and attempt to redefine rhetoric. But then Brittney Cooper’s ““It’s the Blackness that scares everybody”: … Continue reading →

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Listening, Passivity, and/as Ethics

Posted on November 22, 2014 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

This morning a tweet caught my attention: Loved hearing Albers and Harste speak about reclaiming writing #ncte14 #reclaimthejoy #literacies pic.twitter.com/ifqU0mEdTY — Jon Wargo (@wargojon) November 22, 2014 I haven’t read Albers and Harste before, so I’ll have to track down … Continue reading →

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