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Tag: theory
Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
*Haraway,
Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism
in the Late Twentieth Century." Simians, Cyborgs and Women:
The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. 149-181.
Lauer, “Composition Studies: Dappled Discpline”
Lauer,
Janice. "Composition Studies: Dappled Discipline." Rhetoric
Review 3.1 (1984): 20-28.
Breakfast Theory
A few remnants for 691: Theory as method: Reid’s 1989
cartoon, "Breakfast Theory: A Morning Methodology."
And for daily fiber:
PBS Kids’ Freaky Flakes. P’shoped a EWM-brand box. Plus,
this, from the Detroit News, an article on Kelloggs. Elsewhere
Homi Bhaba
talks about breakfast cereal and globalization.
You know, spring of my senior year in high school, I had a
basketball tryout at Kellogg CC in Battle Creek, MI.
Earlier today on ESPN News (playing low in the b’ground), the
anchor, commenting on Jason Kidd’s off-the-backboard oop to Richard
Jefferson in the Nets-Jazz game last night, said (about connecting up on the fast break) "That’s just good writing
there."
Mitchell – Picture Theory (1994)
Some risk involved in beginning with a leap; Mitchell’s Picture Theory
splinters through the title’s pun–a theory of pictures and theory pictured or
picture-able. In the introduction, Mitchell calls the problem of the 21st
C. a problem of the image. This opens onto difficulties with the
relationship between word and image, mapping and organizing fields of
representation, and discord between reading proper and spectatorship (3).
Fumble them as we inevitably will, these and other differences might seem less
gnarled if we "adopt Michel de Certau’s terminology and call the attempt to
describe [them] a ‘heterology of representation’" (5).
A Comp-landia Itinerary
Encouraged by
C.’s comment at cgbvb and entries by
Jeff and
Donna, I’m in on the carnival; flipped through Fulkerson’s essay in the
latest CCC (56.4) this afternoon. My general impression is that it’s an
interesting overview of the discipline–engaging for the divisions he suggests
and for the grim note that caps the essay. Good carnival entries
(jus’ sharpening the axiology), I think, keep it to a few points, raise
questions or pull on knots, puzzles and so on. Right? So, on:
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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