Archive for March, 2007
ethical egoism = unacceptably arbitrary
I’ve often wondered about ethical egoism (though I didn’t really have that term), the philosophy made popular by Ayn Rand that pretty much argues that you ought to act in your own self-interests; mainly, my interest has been in its refutation. James Rachels, in The Elements of Moral Philosophy, makes a strong argument that ethical [...]
essays and articles I read yesterday
I realized that I haven’t been keeping enough notes about what I read, which later causes me to think, “Where did I read that again?” I used to be better at this, so I’m going to try to keep some notes for more of what I read. Here’s what I read yesterday: Thompson, Roger. “’Habit [...]
Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream
A blog I read by VeganKid shared this article about the book Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream, which describes one of the most horrific bombing attacks on American soil in 1921 — against an affluent African-American neighborhood. Read it below the cut (original article from Davey D’s Hip Hop Corner): Ron Wallace: co-author of Black [...]
4C’s reflection: Saturday
a continuation of my previous 3 posts: Saturday: O.02 Technologies of Writing: Rhetorics of Place Jeff Rice‘s talk, “Spatial Identities: Writing Cities,“ was really engaging. He called into question the way Google Maps or MapQuest constructs our ideas of place, arguing that there is something more than just the map and the route. Place should [...]
4C’s reflection: Friday
a continuation of my previous two posts: Friday: F.06 old + old = new: Writing Multimedia, Remixing Culture, Remixing Identity Some graduate students and an undergraduate student from Michigan State shared some really interesting ideas and experiences of their own literacy and analyses of some digital artifacts that interrogated issues of copyright, remixing, design, race, [...]
4C’s reflection: Thursday
a continuation of my notes from 4C’s: Thursday: A.23 Forging a Scholarly and Professional Identity Online: Blogging as Discovery and Externalization of Self Geoffrey Middlebrook, Sandra Ross, and LauraAnne Caroll-Adler (University of Southern California, Los Angeles) all discussed their use of Blackboard and blogs in their composition courses, including basic writing, first year composition, and [...]
4C’s reflection: Wednesday
I had a lot of fun at 4C’s and went to quite a few talks (though I read on others’ blogs that this is typical of the first-timer’s trip: trying to fit it all in). Let’s see if I can summarize adequately what I’ve been up to, seen, and heard so far, reconstructing the events [...]
my hostel in manhattan
I’m in Pittsburgh now (at the Carnegie Library for some wireless work time), and I thought I’d post some pictures of my sparse hostel room in the upper west side of Manhattan. It was a nice enough place to sleep and shower, since I didn’t hang out there much or expect much out of it, [...]
consequences in education, oh, and on that remixing stuff
I’m always being in my Harper’s reading. During my vacation (4C’s in NYC, and now in Pittsburgh), I was finally able to catch up on the September 2006 issue. There’s a pretty good Forum on using video games that might teach writing, with Jave Avrich (author of The Winter Without Mlik), Steven Johnson (author of [...]
i’m in New York
I got into New York tonight and made it safely to my hostel. It’s on the north end of Central Park and west a few blocks, and I was surprised with how… sparse it is. I guess I shouldn’t have expected more for only $18 a night. There’s three other guys in my room, two [...]
