Archive for June, 2007
Scot McCloud is in Portland… and I can’t really go
I’ve been wanting to see Scott McCloud in Portland (he’s there now) during his tour ever since I found out he was going to be doing a panel on the graphic novel with some Oregonian cartoonists at the Multnomah County Library, but alas… it’s late in the month, and I don’t have the gas money [...]
Bitzer: exigence
Let us suppose that our total environment presents no problems — no poverty, injustice, or war; no personal illness or tragedy; no petty squabbles; no questions inviting answers; no controversy needing resolution; no object or idea awaiting discovery or invention; no condition of any sort inviting us to adjust ourselves or the environment. Would there [...]
new draft of chapter 2
So today I finished revising Chapter 2. There’s a whole lot left to do (2 more chapters which have been barely started, and then a conclusion), but I feel good about how Chapter 2 looks. action agents allows assumption audience becomes being believes blogger blogosphere blogs bourgeois century certain change chapter city classroom collection common [...]
new draft of chapter 1
I just emailed Lisa my new draft of Chapter 1. I’ll be honest — I’m not the biggest fan of revision. The major revisions I do when writing are as I write, and often my writing is done in quick bursts that I barely revise. I’m finding though, that an extended argument or long piece [...]
papers done, just the thesis left
I just turned in my last paper as a Master’s student. yay! Just my thesis is left. Which reminds me, a few weeks ago I won a philosophy department award for best graduate student paper this year, for my paper from Feminist Philosophies winter term. Above a picture with my professor from that class, Lani [...]
Richard Rorty, 1931-2007
I learned on Sunday of Richard Rorty’s death via The Valve earlier this week, and haven’t really had time to reflect on it. Admittedly, I haven’t read anything by him — only references to him in a few journal articles, but from what I’ve read about him, I think I would like to read his [...]
“now they have huge social networks!”
Lisa told me in the office yesterday that she heard about Ask A Ninja on NPR, a website where people email in questions and the Ask A Ninja Ninja answers them on videos, with sporadic, ironic, postmodern answers that I find quite hilarious. I’m hooked. I found this “entry” quite funny, as Ask A Ninja [...]
blog as palimpsest
Note for Chapter 3: Following Geoffrey Sirc in English Composition as a Happening, can we view blogs as palimpsests, the constant putting new ideas or artifacts on top of old ones, a constant revisioning of ideas, a collage? Blogs, even those that “look” neat and tidy, are messy compositions, right?
what do we mean by liberty?
In his 2005 essay “Liberating ‘Liberatory’ Education, or What Do We mean by ‘Liberty’ Anyway?“, Jeffrey Ringer critiques the work of critical pedagogues in composition who do not reflect critically on their use of the concept of liberty. He writes that his “central concern [...] deals with the way in which North Americans have habitualized [...]
terrible life choices
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