Category Archives: Affect

the rhetoric of pink

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Michael

I’m in my hotel in Frankfurt with pretty poor wireless connection stolen from elsewhere, but I thought I’d pass on this brief NY Times article about the use of pink in visiting football locker rooms as a psychological strategy at … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Feminism, Gender, Queer issues and theory, Visual Rhetoric | 4 Comments

notes from the interblags, talk like a pirate day edition

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Michael

It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I refuse to celebrate (while it is fun, I feel somewhat uneasy about the whole concept, for reasons I can’t quite explain yet). Here’s some interesting stuff I want to catalogue/share: • Sometime … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Gender, Internet culture, publics, Visual Rhetoric | 2 Comments

4C’s reflection: Saturday

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Michael

a continuation of my previous 3 posts: Saturday: O.02 Technologies of Writing: Rhetorics of Place Jeff Rice‘s talk, “Spatial Identities: Writing Cities,“ was really engaging. He called into question the way Google Maps or MapQuest constructs our ideas of place, … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, CCCC 07, Identity and Identification, Internet culture, Queer issues and theory, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

a pedagogy of shame

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Michael

In preparation for Luke and my conference talk “Towards a Less Oppressive Social Justice Pedagogy,” I am reading Sandra Lee Bartky’s “The Pedagogy of Shame.” While Bartky is most concerned with the way we systematically shame women in classrooms, leaving … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Critical Pedagogy, Feminism, Social Justice, Uncategorized | 3 Comments