Archive for March, 2009
the ethics of anonymity
via The Philosophist, here’s an Huffington Post column about an Alaska state legislator revealing the previously anonymous identity of “Alaska Muckraker,” the Alaskan blogger who wrote about Sarah Palin once she was nominated for vice president. The column brings up serious issues about the validity of anonymity, the ethics of outing, and new media and [...]
translating Derrida and posting it online = possible jail time
from Boing Boing: Horacio Potel, an Argentine philosophy professor at Universidad Nacional de Lanús,, faces criminal charges — and possible jail time — for posting unofficial translations of seminal Jacques Derrida texts to his site where his students could see them. Most of these texts were out of print, or had never been translated. Now [...]
Remembering Harvey Milk and Anita Bryant
A bit of “old” news as I try to catch up on some blog reading: Evidently Sean Penn is endorsing a Harvey Milk Day in California, joining some state senators in calling for the memorial day, which would occur on May 22. I guess the bill passed last year, but the governor vetoed it because [...]
Pride Week at Penn State
Penn State blog Onward State has a post with a video about the rally held today (Wednesday) at noon in front of Old Main for Pride Week. I was only able to attend the first half before having to leave to finish an assignment (sad). Here’s the video: Pride Week Rally at Old Main — [...]
Young: The Texture of Memory (1993)
For our Public Memory and Rhetoric course we read James E. Young’s The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning, which was an enjoyable and intelligent investigation into the production and reception of various Holocaust memorials in Germany, Austria, Poland, Israel, and the United States. A few important takeaway thoughts: “[T]he ‘art of public memory’ [...]
Dennis Jerz on my CCCC Panel
I finally got around to reading Dennis Jerz’s summary and response to the CCCC panel I was on a few weeks ago. I think he pretty accurately conveyed what we discussed on the panel, as well as evaluated some of the weaknesses of the presentations. Jerz’s other posts on CCCC 2009 can be found here.
needs some updatin’
Man, some of my blogroll links are outdated and wrong, and this stupid skaterboi in my header needs to go, and I want to work on the colors on this blog so they’re more readable/accessible, but you know, all this takes time, and I’ve got books and books and books to read. But in about [...]
oh, yeah, there’s a blog here
What’s that, Mx. Blog? Oh, you feel neglected. And well you should, I suppose. After making a mental commitment to myself to blog more often, I slipped. Well, you see, Mx. Blog, I was in LA and then San Francisco over spring break. And while I did homework in LA, I also slept a lot [...]
defining “new media”
I’m reading Wyoscki et al’s Writing New Media, and Anne Wysocki offers a definition of “new media texts” that I find quite interesting: I think we should call “new media texts” those that have been made by composers who are aware of the range of materialities of texts and who then highlight the materiality: such [...]
Wordle Tag Cloud of CCCC09 talk
“What’s in a Zine? A Public Ancestry of Blogs”:
