Category Archives: Desire

notes from the interblags: thanksgiving edition

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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queer in little rock; or, composing bodies

Posted on October 6, 2007 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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on “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change”

Posted on January 28, 2007 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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On Chapter 2 of Changing the Subject in English Class

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Michael

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” … Continue reading →

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