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I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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Category Archives: Philosophy 599: Creative Demcracies (Spring 2007)
a culture of humiliation: Zizek, shame, and what does it mean to be American?
Today was the first meeting of Gottlieb’s “Theory after 9/11″ Seminar. During class we read Slavoj Zizek’s In These Times article What Rumsfeld Doesn’t Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib. Zizek argues that despite the claims of the media … Continue reading
what do we mean by liberty?
In his 2005 essay “Liberating ‘Liberatory’ Education, or What Do We mean by ‘Liberty’ Anyway?“, Jeffrey Ringer critiques the work of critical pedagogues in composition who do not reflect critically on their use of the concept of liberty. He writes … Continue reading
is democracy inherently good?
Yesterday in Creative Democracy Professor Orosco asked us to write and share our ideas on two questions. It hadn’t occurred to me to blog about this, but then Luke did, so I thought I’d go ahead and type up what … Continue reading
TagCrowd
Anne-Marie Deitering (OSU Valley Library) is (at this very moment!) doing her presentation for Writing Intensive Curriculum, titled “Read, Write, Share: Emerging Technologies in the Writing Classroom.” She just showed us TagCrowd, which is amazing. I just pasted in a … Continue reading
Royce’s The Philosophy of Loyalty, Chapter 3
Josiah Royce, in Chapter 3 of The Philosophy of Loyalty (1908), argues that in order to be a moral person, one must chose to be loyal to causes that do not infringe upon other people’s loyalty to their causes — … Continue reading