Category Archives: Collage

zines v. the internet

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Michael

Thanks to my friend Eric for sending me this link. Rita Flórez at Good Magazine has an article title “Why Zines Won’t Die”, which I found pretty interesting, and relates to my thesis (which, alas, is done, but the research … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Collage, New Media, publics, Zines | 1 Comment

Lethem’s “The Ecstasy of Influence”

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Michael

Neurological study has lately shown that memory, imagination, and consciousness itself is stitched, quilted, pastiched. If we cut-and-aste our selves, might we not forgive it of our artworks? (Lethem 68) I just finished February 2007′s Harper’s and there was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Collage, Ethics, publics | 5 Comments

prewriting and collaboration become easier online

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Michael

Collin Brooke wrote about free online prewriting and brainstorming software that looked pretty cool, so I checked them out. Both of the two websites he sent readers to had to do with mapping, and I’m pretty pleased with both. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Collage, Queer issues and theory, Teaching Composition, Writing 516: Advanced Composition (Winter 2007) | 1 Comment

sefer and the text

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Michael

From Robert Alter’s “To the Reader” for his translation of Genesis: The biblical conception of a book was clearly far more open-ended than any notion current in our own culture, with it assumptions of known authorship and legal copyright. The … Continue reading →

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thesis “proposal” for MAWG

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Michael

Cross-posted on MAWG: Polemics and Irenics in Argument – it’s a start? In her essay “The Womanization of Rhetoric,“ Sally Miller Gearhart writes that she believes “that any intent to persuade is an act of violence“ because the persuader has … Continue reading →

Posted in Agonism in Display, Brainstorming, Collage, Gender, Hyptertexts, Irenicism, Polyphony, Thesis work, Voice, Walter Ong | 4 Comments