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erial composition which asks why writing instruction has remained tied to the same form for the past 150 years sirc imagines whether writing instruction could have followed architecture painting sculpture and music the other compository arts and embraced minimalist methods the move offered by sirc reminds me of ulmer s move toward haiku logic in internet invention inspired by sirc s essay and its reach for the pithy i gave my students the following prompt in five sentences serially arranged rather than sequentially tell us about how a place or building generated an epiphany thought question or change please refrain from using conjunctions you many use no more than 2 commas i don t assign assignments that i have not tried myself so here goes a machine beeps in the background administering medicine to my one year old daughter a nurse carries a tray with vacuum packed sandwiches and generic potato chips outside wafts of cheap pizza carry me toward the concession stand her crying never sounded so real so reassuring so necessary we merge onto alligator alley for another long ride home the students reflected that this kind of writing ends up producing something more like poetry and hey i m a pretty bad poet this i believe is one of sirc s points to ask why writing instruction has remained committed to utility to the properly subordinated proportioned and progressive sequence instead of imagining and developing how to write otherwise posted by insignificant wrangler at 11 27 no comments labels expos sirc writing 8 7 13 expository writing postpedagogy summer 2013 this summer i find myself teaching another section of expository writing an upper division writing course and graduation requirement for the past few years i have taught the course in a fairly eccentric way one that matches up with my proclivities for postpedagogy students choose a topic in which they have a personal investment and read and write about that topic for the entirety of the course this semester spurred a bit by boredom and a bit by fresh research interests i decided to add in a wrinkle in addition to their topics students would write in class on some assign readings these readings all deal with the history of the essay and on whether it is a viable form for digital writing we read a short piece perhaps a list of which will follow and craft responses we started with christy walpole s the essayification of everything that essay led me to montaigne s on the education of children and my students first in class writing prompt to craft a post that uses montaigne as a relay for thinking through the idea of on writing i appreciated walpole s characterization of montaigne who she contrasts with bacon because of her emphasis on how his trepidatious style can be used as an ethic for life an ethic that shares much with my interest in levinas and his ethical prioritization of the other so i approached his essay on education with enthusiasm while the name montaigne resonated on the back of my memory i couldn t remember reading anything of his i was happily surprised to find my favorite quote from cicero near the start of his essay the authority of those who teach is very often an impediment to those who desire to learn postpedagogy in a nutshell i also appreciated montaigne s analogy between learning and eating that the brain of the student resembles her stomach both must be given time to digest both should avoid regurgitation posted by insignificant wrangler at 12 12 no comments 26 4 13 latour and delegation i m researching latour s views on christianity for a revise and resubmit and came along this passage near the end of we have never been modern i don t know how many times i have read this book but i never recognized the simple and elegant significance of this passage i call this transcendence that lacks a contrary delegation the utterance or the delegation or the sending of a message or a messenger makes it possible to remain in presence that is to exist when we abandon the modern world we do not fall upon someone or something we do not land on an essence but on a process on a movement a passage literally a pass in the sense of the term as used in ball games we start from a continuous and hazardous existence continuous because it is hazardous and not from an essence we start from a presenting and not from permanence whnbm 129 in pandora s hope latour will amplify this conclusion stressing that something is only as real as its connections to other entities in a network and harman emphasizes this metaphysical postulate in prince of networks it reminds me of levinas and levinas s insistence that existence does not begin from essence but rather from a relation to the other the difference here is that latour s metaphysics is interested in material relations while levinas s metaphysics involve the enigmatic relation to transcendental alterity but both forbid a sense of security or positivity and i like that posted by insignificant wrangler at 07 55 1 comment labels latour levinas metaphysics 22 3 13 cccc s recap 1 expanding rhetorical publics the zoo the cemetery and the chapel while at cccc s i had the pleasure of attending steven mailloux d diane davis and michelle ballif s panel expanding rhetorical publics the zoo the cemetery and the chapel mailloux s talk human acts divine publics wonders whether it is possible to imagine how a human might share a rhetorical relation with the divine rhetorical here stipulating the potential for a two way relationship to me the most engaging part of his talk concerned his discussion of the role of pathos in heidegger that via heidegger s reading of aristotle in existential constitution of the there in being in time the first work of rhetoric isn t necessarily identification ethos but rather the establishment of a mood pathos an affective register from which we can share a world davis s talk human acts animal publics challenges the cartesian distinction that self referentiality in the form of autobiography distinguishes the human besides the fact that science increasingly acknowledges the self referential capabilities of other species an aside she makes in her conclusion poststructuralist conceptions of language reveal we are never in command of our own self image but always in the process of chasing the animal that therefore i am this line of thought isn t primarily intended to achieve animal rights which would simply lead to another conversation and drawing of lines which animals etc nor is it a matter of eliminating the desire to draw lines echoing derrida s distinction between the necessity of human laws and our obligation to honor the absolute law of hospitality it is a matter of drawing so many lines that the act of line drawing diminishes humanism s power to cause epistemological and material violence ballif s talk human acts dead publics explores how we might derive a post humanist rhetoric and ethics from the figure of the vampire working from derrida s claim that we learn to live finally not from life but from death first like davis she urges us to let go of the chimera of representation and strain to listen to our spectral borders unsure of the certainty of ourselves and our ears furthermore she strives to make us recognize how much our conception of ourselves is tied to the horizons of our being to death and the beyond finally ballif advocates that learning to live finally is an ethical move that necessitates stepping to and beyond the impossible border between life and death posted by insignificant wrangler at 13 19 1 comment labels ballif davis derrida ethics heidegger mailloux pathos 1 1 13 red sox hot stove season after last year s disappointment i guess it is not too surprising the red sox have had such an active off season my biggest fear after 2012 was that the sox would aggressively overpay for free agents after the dodgers trade out of a sense of obligation to immediately re stock there wasn t really a marquee player available this off season hamilton might have been the best player and he came with big question marks greinke might have been the best player but there were questions as to how he would perform in boston s insane media market while the sox haven t given out a mega contract they have signed quite a few players to mid level deals here s my rundown in order of appreciation from best to worst joel hanrahan a strong acquisition since the sox didn t give up a top prospect to acquire their new closer it will be interesting to see if they can close a deal to keep him since he is scheduled to become a free agent after 2013 ryan dempster a two year deal for a productive middle of the rotation guy he doesn t quite replace josh beckett even if he takes his place in the rotation the real question here is whether dempster can stay healthy at age 35 but he hasn t missed more than a handful of starts since becoming a starter in 2008 stephen drew there s not much to dislike about this deal drew gets a one year deal for a tolerable 9 5 million it gives the sox time for xander bogaerts their current uber prospect to mature in double aa drew has always played solid defense and is a productive line drive hitter even if his plate discipline leaves something to be desired mike napoli the real question for me is where will napoli play i must admit i am not a terribly big fan of jarrod saltalamacchia s ability to call a game i don t think it a coincidence that the pitching staff s era went up over a whole run in his first year as the full time catcher without jason varitek around to mentor him of course there were other coaching issues with this team last year too john farrell is outstanding at handling pitchers especially these pitchers and so perhaps he can improve salty s game that said salty is still a part of this team so does that mean that napoli s primary position will be at first base his offense numbers are strong for a catcher 275 379 552 over the last two years with texas but only mediocre for a first baseman still it looks like the everyday job at first will be his for the next three years unless salty gets traded or papi retires koji uehara uehara s been a solid short reliever for the past 4 years but he s 38 with a recent history of injury hence a safe one year deal for just over 4 million nothing not to like about this one david ross with the departure of shoppach the sox needed a back up catcher check jonny gomes what have we done to deserve this i don t understand gomes isn t a quality fielder since turning 30 he s put up a line of 234 349 437 he s a strike out machine sure he s got a bit of home run power and the outfield market is pretty weak this off season but a 2 year deal really this just makes the josh reddick for andrew bailey trade look even worse the worst part with ross leaving he might actually start shane victorino o k the gomes acquisition is aggravating this one is infuriating the sox give a player clearly past his prime a 3 year 39 million dollar contract ugh what is worse this contract ensures that ellsbury will be playing his final season in boston ultimately i don t think these moves are as critical to the 2013 campaign as the potential resurgence of their established players john lester and clay buchholz need to demonstrate that last year was an aberration if the sox are to have any chance of competing farrell s hiring should help with this it would also be help if david ortiz can rediscover the fountain of youth that returned him to mvp form last season perhaps he can share it with his teammates posted by insignificant wrangler at 21 39 1 comment labels redsox 5 12 12 spring book order as we put another semester in the books its time to place the book orders for the spring here s what i have on order rhetoric and gaming bogost persuasive games mcgonigal reality is broken fille and platten the ultimate guide to video game writing and design visual rhetoric golombisky white space is not your enemy stockman how to shoot web video that doesn t suck williams tollett the non designer s photoshop book adobe indesign cs5 classroom in a book the rhetoric and gaming class is under development it will hopefully be a permanent addition to our major i haven t taught visrhet in a few years this time around i built my syllabus around meredith s version of the course adding a derive project for some good ole self indulgent navel gazing yes i appreciate the irony of not developing a css sheet for the visrhet webpage it will come it will come and yes i realize that pac man is disappearing on a few browsers that one actually bothers me more posted by insignificant wrangler at 08 58 no comments labels teaching usf videogames 13 11 12 petition against tuition scaling a quick post today governor is attempting to scale tuition increases based on major with non stem majors paying more tuition this proposal is built on faulty grounds increasingly our economy is driven by creativity and innovation the humanities supply these abilities hence why for thousands of years higher education has sought to educate the whole person rather than focus on a few select skills no one in education supports this movement it is the product of the worst kind of politics please take a moment to sign this petition against scott s proposed plan feel free to copy paste my response above posted by insignificant wrangler at 12 50 2 comments labels education politics older posts home subscribe to posts atom why insignificant the title for this blog and my web identity stems from a passage from john locke s essay some thoughts concerning education be sure not to let your son be bred up in the art and formality of disputing either practicing it himself or admiring it in others unless instead of an able man you desire to have him an insignificant wrangler opiniator in discourse and priding himself in contradicting others or which is worse questioning everything and thinking there is no such thing as truth to be sought but only victory 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