Arguments (nature of?)
notes from the interblags
Some interesting links: • Konrad Glogowski posts about his own voice in blogs while teaching 8th grade. I found his post really interesting in regards to personal voice and identity presentation/representation. An excerpt: What I am really concerned about, however, is my own voice. For the past three years, my three successive grade eight classes [...]
notes on academic agonism from Mike Rose
I have one more thing to say about the kind of critique I tried to fashion [in Possible Lives]. Academic training is agonistic; graduate study instills in us the penchant for critique, and the disciplinary tools to do it. More generally, Western intellectual life is energized by attack and counterattack — just read the letters [...]
debate competitions changing…
This LA Times article is quite interesting. Jim at Blogora asks if this new debate is a good or bad thing. I might say both, but I’m going to lean towards good. Here’s an excerpt from the article: In recent years, renegade rhetoricians from Cal State Fullerton and other underdog schools have clobbered debate kingpins [...]
philosophy digest #8
here is the reading digest I’ll turn in for critical social theory on Tuesday: Wednesday night, after a short week of classes before Thanksgiving, I sat in Bombs Away, one of my favorite bars to sit and chat with others in. Two other English department GTAs and I were holding a lively and hopeful discussion [...]
lots of talking today…
This week has been busy. I haven’t gone to bed a single night this week without feeling like I got less than half of my to-do list done. This might not seem so bad to others, since it’s only Tuesday, but it feels like it should be Thursday night, it’s been so busy. Today took [...]
I-thou relationships and I-it relationships
I cannot remember the author who came up with the I-thou and I-it relationships, but it’s usually used in regards to stereotypes and prejudices. For example, instead of viewing someone as an person of a certain race and base my judgments solely upon that (an I-it relationship), I should view them as a whole person [...]
