Archive for January, 2008
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images of the not unforeseeable
In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Derrida argues that “September 11″ is not an event (in the sense that Heidegger uses the term) because, in part, it was not unforeseeable. Of course, there is the obvious case of the attacks on the World Trade Center in the [...]
“I will fight for the little guy”
Via Viz.
I have to be honest: I haven’t followed a second of Oregonian Senate electoral politics (even while my fingers and eyes have been glued to CNN and NPR’s websites on the presidential primaries). However, these ads are pretty smart, I think, in developing Democratic Senate candidate Steve Novick’s ethos, especially in regards to his [...]
The Future is Now: Presentation to the RU Board of Governors
From the WPA listserve (which I just joined a few days ago), Richard Miller’s 7-minute presentation to the Rutger University’s Board of Governors:
I would say that the Humanities, in the last 10-20 years, somewhat lost its way in becoming overly focused on critique. The real function of the Humanities is to engage in the act [...]
ethics in technical communication
I’m reading my technical writing students’ homework on ethics in documents. They were assigned to find an article, advertisement, or other document that contains untrue or misleading information and discuss (in a memo to me) the ethics behind it. In particular, Mike Markel’s Technical Communication outlines four paradigms of understanding ethics (justice, rights, utility, and [...]
daft bodies
A friend showed me this video yesterday. I’m in love with it.
notes from the interblags
• Who owns images of products? The company that produces them, or those that take the pictures? This comes up in the case of Ford, who is arguing that the Black Mustang Club cannot produce and circulate a calendar with pictures of their cars on it (Boing Boing).
• AcademHack: using Twitter in Academia.
• Inside Higher [...]
Read It Later: New Firefox Extension
If you’re like me, you keep somewhere between 15 and 40 tabs open at a time because you open something, decide you want to read it later, but don’t want to tag it in del.icio.us or bookmark it — and that something becomes 15 somethings, or more. Anne-Marie links to the Firefox extension Read It [...]
conferencing with students
Yesterday I put myself through hell, scheduling 27 20-minute conferences with students (4 didn’t show up), and come 6:30 when I finished, I was exhausted.
Today, I have considerably fewer, though I also teach two classes today. However, I’m currently sitting here waiting for my third appointment, but she, much like the previous student, hasn’t shown [...]
excitable speech: don’t ask, don’t tell
Judith Bulter’s Excitable Speech was a great read over winter break, and I appreciated her understanding of the speech act “I’m gay” in the context of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the nefarious law signed in by Clinton to restrict openly non-heterosexual people from serving in the military (well, if they told anyone they were gay [...]
