Monthly Archives: June 2007

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, … Continue reading

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“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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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terrible life choices

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