Kittler,
Friedrich. Discourse Networks, 1800/1900. Trans. Michael Metteer.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.
Tag: psychoanalysis
Turkle, The Second Self
Turkle,
Sherry. The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit. 1984.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005.
Turkle, “Identity Crisis”
Turkle,
Sherry. "Identity Crisis." Vitanza 57-76.
Tingle and Self-Development
Nick Tingle’s
Self-Development and College Writing (2004, SIU Press)
proposes a psychoanalytic stance on the "transitional space" of the
composition class. Tingle’s argument leans heavily on Robert Kegan’s five orders
of consciousness–a quasi-Piagetian theory of stage-based psychological
development. Phase one accounts for ages 2-6 (which, taken literally,
suggests pre-birth through the first twenty-four months of life are
non-conscious…discuss). Tingle explains that some of the
discord felt between teachers and students can be attributed to our varied developmental
positions. College-level writing students, in Tingle’s framework, match up with the third order of
consciousness (16), which is often defined by institutional forces and tends to
celebrate subjectivity (as in adolescence). The fourth order in this model
accords with "’a qualitatively more complex system of organizing experience’"
(16); it is a more sophisticated order of self-truth that "somehow break[s] the
identifications of the self with its social roles" (17). Tingle writes
that the modern university is designed to support students’ movement from the third
to the fourth order of consciousness, but because such moves involve
destabilization and "narcissistic wounding," the writing class might function to
enable and support. Furthermore, writing teachers are often positioned at
the fourth order of consciousness (if not the fifth, which he correlates with
postmodernism (20)). Teachers, therefore, must attend to their own
stage-orientation when defining viable writing projects and articulating
developmentally-appropriate expectations. It can prove disastrous, in other
words, when fourth-order teachers presuppose their third-order students to be more
psychologically advanced. Among the consequences: shame, embarrassment and humiliation (89).
Lose and Lose and
Philadelphia Eagles (3-0) def. Detroit Lions (2-1), 30-13
But I didn’t watch much because, instead, I was piling word by carefully
chosen word through a summary of the last chapter from The Order of Things
for class tomorrow night. I’ll post it in the extended entry area since I
wouldn’t want to misrepresent this as a
academic blog exactly. Not yet. Plus, the summary is
terminologically hip-boots marshy; it gets by on borrowed terms, awkwardly
jumbled, squishy. But it’ll do the trick, I think, and I was just so
Fouc-ing relieved to be at the end of The Order of Things that a bit of
disorderliness was due. Seriously, though, I hope we will sort out whether
F.’s rhetoric as epistemic tags him as a sophist (au wisdom) or a skeptic
(au infinite regress)…or neither. Both?
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When I clicked on the slogan
generator this morning, it brought up "Too Orangey For Braddock
Essays." A’right! However, I’d never heard the slogan.
Found it gets play in this fun advertisement (mpg,
4.2mb) for Kia-ora. Is it orange soda?
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Eating baked potatoes for tonight’s meal when Andy
Rooney came on the tube. I haven’t watched 60 Minutes in a long
time, and tonight, having caught only the end, it was 5 Minutes.
The guru crabster was carrying on about disingenuous efforts to mobilize the
votary public. Get out and vote campaigns, he grumbled, are a crock; they
stir disinterested, uninformed dummies, rustle the lethargic from civic
slumber…. Like-always Rooney. Pure crust. But then he
said,
I’d be willing to bet that it’s the dumbest people among us who are least
likely to vote too, and that’s fine with me. I don’t want anyone dumber than I
am voting.[…]
If you’re a new citizen, wait another four years until you understand
English well enough to know what the candidates are talking about before you
vote.
Way to go, CBS. How completely asinine does it have to be before you
relieve his crotchety-ness from making a total, hateful fool of himself?
At once I felt a tinge of pity because he’s so confused and a wave of
shock because he spoke in such unapologetic and irrevocable seriousness to hundreds of thousands of viewers saying, insomanywords, that non-English speakers, despite U.S. citizenship, ought to learn English before voting.
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