Desire
notes from the interblags: thanksgiving edition
I’ve found that my blog reading is much like my magazine reading. I’m always behind and have a stack of stuff to read when I get around to it. • via Clay Spinuzzi, Hello, My Name is Bob, and I Check My Email While on the Toilet. Excerpt: In many recovery programs, one of the [...]
queer in little rock; or, composing bodies
Scene 1: Sarah, Luke, and I have been in Little Rock for only a few hours Wednesday night and decide to see what the city’s like. With the help of Google, we find a piano bar that seems kind of fun, though it is kind of empty. When asked how we managed to hear about [...]
on “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”
Lisa also suggested that I read Cushman’s article “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” which I enjoyed a lot. She advocates for crossing the ivory tower/reality divide that separates universities and their work from the real life work of citizens. She claims that “we need to take into our accounts of social change [...]
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 [...]
On Chapter 2 of Changing the Subject in English Class
Alcorn makes a strong case in this chapter that “rhetoric of discourse is libinal” (26) and that “libidinal structure is always ideological. Libidinal structures are inesapably ideological because all meanings and all feelings operate as meanings in an ideological context” (25). He critiqutes James Berlin’s pedagogy (his two modes of freedom: 1) teacher offers “social [...]
philosophy digest #6
Here is my reading digest for Critical Social Theory that’s due tomorrow: Habermas, Jürgen. “Toward a Reconstruction of Historical Materialism“ and “Social Action and Rationality.“ Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Marcuse, Herbert. “Liberation from the Affluent Society.“ in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader, edited by Stephen Eric Bronner and Douglas MacKay Kellner, 276-287. New York: [...]
on Chapter 1 of Changing the Subject in English Class
When I mentioned to Lisa my interest in the intersections of Desire and Composition last week, she suggested I read Marshall W. Alcorn’s Changing the Subjct in English Class: Discourse and the Construction of Desire. So far, I’m liking it a lot. I’ve read the introduction, in which Alcorn lays out some groundwork and explains [...]
