Category Archives: Education

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 →

Posted in Critical Pedagogy, Desire, Education | 1 Comment

on Chapter 1 of Changing the Subject in English Class

Posted on November 11, 2006 by Michael

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 … Continue reading →

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reflections on tyca-pnw

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Michael

Yesterday Sara Jameson and I presented our presentation, “A Compass for the Composition Classroom: Conversing and Consuming in Cyberspace Communities,” at the TYCA-PNW conference, where we asked participants to post to the TYCA-PNW blog. I’m hoping the blog has the … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Teaching Composition | 1 Comment

lots of talking today…

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Michael

This week has been busy. I haven’t gone to bed a single night this week without feeling like I got less than half of my to-do list done. This might not seem so bad to others, since it’s only Tuesday, … Continue reading →

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apathy in the student mill

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Michael

I’m still reading Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Mind. He’s coming to campus in October to speak, and I’d really like to finish the book by then. In fact, Sara Jameson has urged all the TA’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Affect, Education | 1 Comment