Archive for October, 2008
thesis epigraphs meme
Nels suggests a new “meme”: share the epigraph(s) of your dissertation. Well, the dissertation is a few years off for me, so my master’s thesis will work. Um, keep in mind that it was four chapters, with interchapters (yeah, it was kinda long for a thesis), and I used many epigraphs. (An [un]fortunate effect of [...]
blogiversary
I just remembered that I started this blog three years ago on October 18. To commemorate, some evidence that our public discourse is no better than it was three years ago: I’m not sure what channel this is from, but those questions are awful!
tag cloud weekend!
I forgot to tag cloud last weekend. oh well. Here’s this weekend’s: I think this one looks beautiful!
audience (un)addressed
Matt Weiss’s post on audience from a month or so ago got me thinking again about audiences. After reading up on Lyotard for my Watson Conference talk, I was struck by his take on audience in Just Gaming. Some thoughts: I wonder if some “texts†online aren’t akin to how Jean-François Lyotard views his book [...]
“always…”
“If we have learned anything in the years of late twentieth-century feminism, it’s that ‘always’ blots out what we really need to know: When, where, and under what conditions has the statement been true?” (Adrienne Rich, “Notes Toward a Politics of Location,” qtd. in Lisa Ede, Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location [...]
584: Weekly Position Paper #9: The Ethos of GTAs: Credibility Appeals vs. Pedagogical Openness
Ethos is a term that Krista Ratcliffe employs in Rhetorical Listening both in order to understand how whiteness functions in our society and in order to help teachers understand how they can plan for a course that prepares students to listen rhetorically. In order to maintain stasis, whiteness often reduces ethos to a rugged-individualist ethical [...]
does pain have a rhetoric?
John Lyne (University of Pittsburgh) just gave a talk here titled “Does Pain Have a Rhetoric?” It was excellent and thought provoking. Starting with the anecdote of a toddler who falls and then takes a moment for interpretation, by looking at his or audience, as he or she decides whether this was painful or not [...]
where does rhetoric (or writing) reside?
Collin reflects on the Watson Conference. Of particular interest, I thought: Based on a number of conversations, and based upon some of the very stark differences among the plenaries, I am more and more convinced that the next major dispute in our field is going to be conducted between those of us who reside in [...]
notes from the interblags: racism, transphobia, marginalia
• via Dennis, BooMan on explicit racism in this election. An excerpt: Anytime they poll the American people about racism, blacks say there is more of it than whites. The raw racism on display this election season is probably more educational for whites than for blacks, who have had a more accurate picture of reality [...]
Colin Powell endorses Obama
If only more political figures were as thoughtful and poised as Powell is here as he explains his endorsement. via NYTimes Caucus Blog
