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Confess to being plumb wore out right now.  Lots of things seem
\nto be<\/strike> are going awry, which is an expected feeling around the fourth
\nweek of a demanding semester.  And yes, one self-monitor cautions me to
\nbuck up, chill out, keep it steady, and another self-monitor–Disrupter–takes a
\nmore rancorous tenor, blares like a high-and-whiny siren.  And another….<\/p>\n

Instead of pining over a lackluster day and a stack of work among other
\nstressors, I suppose I ought to wrap this back into broader issues (from
\nclasses, of course) about network literacy and identity.  I think my only
\npoint for now is that finding a rhythm is just one tender, deceptive sliver of
\nliving the interconnection; rhythm-finding is obscured by ease, yes?  When
\nthe process\/system (of blogging, since, what the heck, that’s under the
\nmicro-scope) is least visible, it is susceptible to
\ndisruption. Writing is easy, not easy. What I’m trying to work through is the
\nextent to which the bumps are explicit or the extent to which the strain of
\ndoctoral study makes its way into a space frequented by colleagues whom I see
\nevery day at work.  And so I suppose this gives an opening to theorizing
\nthe network as wrought with dynamics I still don’t understand, new and
\nunpredictable avenues for being placed into
\nvarious<\/a>
\nstatements<\/a>.  The schizo-network
\n(made possible by meeting twice or doubly), as a consequence of competing,
\noverlapping and near-simultaneous representations, is
\nvulnerable and, perhaps no matter how widely distributed, somewhat degraded. 
\nYeah, that’s what I wanted to say.  It knows woe; it
\ninterpolates absence, it senses strain, recovers quietly.<\/p>\n

\n The unbinding can become so overpowering that it colonizes subjectivities
\n and tears them apart; with no guarantee of either a stable past or a connected
\n future, it is impossible to believe in the unity of a single, stable
\n subject–the subject of our previous discussions of literacy. (Wysocki and
\n Johnson-Eilola 365)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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