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First signs of spring include firing up the grill and contemplating an oil
\nchange and point by point inspection of the lawn mower.  I did both today,
\nfiring and contemplating.  The firing was inspired when D. returned from
\nthe market with bratwurst; the contemplating was brought on by the incredibly
\nrapid growth of purple-flowered weed sprigs overtaking the lawn.  Creeping
\nbellflowers?  Hell, I don’t know what.  But they’re tall and pleading
\nto be cut soon.  <\/p>\n

The Thermos Millennium gas grill is approaching its fifth birthday.  I
\nspend the better part of Easter Sunday, 1999, with my brother-in-law (well, he
\nwasn’t my bro-in-law then, but he is now) matching up sprockets, force-fitting
\nparts and having an altogether bad time of piecing it together.  It’s named
\nMillennium, but I don’t think it will last more than another year or two, and
\ncertainly no more than three.  Just last week I replaced a couple of bolts
\nholding one of the gas-regulator dials on; today, it was the igniter dangling by
\na wire beneath the grease-caked underbelly.  Tough to get at.  Tough
\nto fix.  The igniter end is basically a spark plug–a ceramic separator
\ncreates a space for the friction-generated voltage to arc.  The arc lights
\nthe propane.  Burnt meat.  With the igniter end dangling beneath the
\ngrill, I wasn’t sure what to do.  So I found a spot that looked like it
\nmight serve as a shelf to introduce the spark to the gas and propped it
\nthere.  But I had doubts that the igniter was working, so I popped the
\nignite button and absorbed one shock.  15 volts?  20?  It was
\nworking; we were well on our way to the first brats of 2004.  Well on our
\nway.<\/p>\n

The shock absorption and my reporting of it to you via EWM warrants a bit of
\nexplaining.  More than a few academic bloggers I read (more conveniently
\nwith the assistance of Mozilla Firefox’s Aggreg8, which I’m learning to love)
\nhave been questioning the vexed relationship between their weblogs and their
\nscholarship.  I consider myself to be more of an academic fringe-straddler,
\none whose life is spread out in ways that conflate academic interests with a
\nless neatly intellectualized workaday life.  But I, too, wish for EWM to
\nserve more than a writing habit of convenience, to do more than chronicle day to
\nday ironies, the flush and flex of life.  I like the way the blog becomes a
\nstorehouse for contingent issues and ideas; its utility is multifarious: writing
\nhabit, public engagement, free-to-explore think space, platform, social forum,
\nexperimental lab, diary-journal, unruly zone for discursive play.  All
\nof this will be worth returning to in the years ahead.  I’m sure of it.<\/p>\n

You’re thinking it was more than 15 volts, eh?  Well, actually, the
\nshock is significant because I plied through 80 pages of Obedience to
\nAuthority<\/i> today, and Stanley Milgram’s study was all about the willingness
\nof a subject to expose a learner to voltage-shocks,  escalating with each
\nincorrect answer and commanded by an authoritative experimenter. I don’t want to
\nleave behind the idea of agentic shift as a rhetorical event, especially as it
\nmanifests through deference to technology in the guise of authority.  My
\nnotes are still messy, and I’m just now chomping through the theoretically
\ntastiest one-third of Milgram’s book, but I am seeing connections, seeing needs
\nfor differentiation and refinement in terms, seeing lots of ways agentic shift
\ncan serve as a descriptive apparatus in composition and rhetoric. 
\n[situation is a locus of action, opposition to authority, agentic state, peer
\nrebellion, cybernetics, conscience and tensional system of the individual,
\nauthority communicates itself, constancy of authority system, surveillance-panopticon
\niterations *Bentham\/Foucault*, Berlin’s noetic
\nfield<\/a>]. I will flesh out those visions here, just as soon as I get my notes
\nin order.  That, too, is what the weblog does for me<\/i>.  It’s
\never-present, bringing me to the edge of the reading chair, excited and
\ninterested because my mind feels as if it is wrapped in one of those, "I’m
\nblogging this<\/a>" t-shirts.  The constancy of weblogging potential
\nwhile reading is invigorating.<\/p>\n

This brings me to one other out there<\/i> prospect for EWM.  In the
\nweeks ahead, I have slotted the return of Cross-Talk in Comp Theory<\/i> and The
\nBraddock Essays<\/i> to my reading list (when does a list grow into something too
\nbig to call a list?).  Brush-up reads to lubricate(!) the merge into a
\ndoctoral program in the fall. So hold me to that; hold me to the promise of
\nbringing notes (even brief summative jottings) from those fine essays into this
\nspace.  I know, lubricate<\/i> sounds smartass, but it reminds me of my
\nbig brother who is an adhesives chemist working and living in Detroit.  He
\ncalled today from his cell phone while driving to Toronto where he was heading
\nto troubleshoot something (likely) to do with robotic arms and glue
\ndistribution.  J. and I have a terrific relationship; today he said he
\ncalled because he had spare weekend minutes.  And I want to come back to that, also–agency in the communicative act, deference to commodified time<\/i> as it correlates to telephony and telegraphy.  But not now.  The Practice<\/i> is on the tube. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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