Category Archives: Courses

Young: The Texture of Memory (1993)

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Michael

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, … Continue reading →

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defining “new media”

Posted on March 10, 2009 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in English 584 Postcritical Perspectives in Literacy Studies (Spring 2009), New Media | 7 Comments

guest blogging at the Blogora

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Michael

Joe Sery and I have started guest blogging at the Blogora. Check out Joe’s first post on the 150th anniversary of Mill’s On Liberty. My first post, on remembering and forgetting 9/11 is up as well.

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dance, commemoration, and remembrance of september 11

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Michael

Some classmates and I are collecting YouTube videos incorporating dance and the remembrance of 9/11 for a pretty low-key presentation for our Public Memory course. In this first, one, the WAIT Team (Washington AIDS International Teens) choreographed and danced to … Continue reading →

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Levinson’s Peculiar Conclusion and Our Civil Religion

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Michael

In class last week, we discussed at length the peculiar conclusion to Sanford Levinson’s Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, in which Levinson writes that we should hope “that the consciousness of the polity, especially of its future … Continue reading →

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