{"id":7447,"date":"2014-12-01T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/"},"modified":"2014-12-01T13:47:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T13:47:59","slug":"somehow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/","title":{"rendered":"Somehow"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span><blockquote><p>Somehow, the dark sun will illuminate us. (555)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This, leafing again through Sirc&#8217;s &#8220;Godless Composition, Tormented Writing,&#8221; for tomorrow&#8217;s grad class, third to last of the semester. Reading this line again makes me think that Bataille&#8217;s wonderment is thick in the ground just beneath the site where the still-unbuilt hacienda would if it could one-day stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min<\/span><\/span>Somehow, the dark sun will illuminate us. (555) This, leafing again through Sirc&#8217;s &#8220;Godless Composition, Tormented Writing,&#8221; for tomorrow&#8217;s grad class, third to last of the semester. Reading this line again makes me think that Bataille&#8217;s wonderment is thick in the ground just beneath the site where the still-unbuilt hacienda would if it could one-day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[163],"tags":[178,412,2209,2902,140],"class_list":["post-7447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dry_ogre_chalking","tag-composition","tag-sirc","tag-sun","tag-tormented","tag-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somehow - Earth Wide Moth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Somehow - Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  &lt; 1 minSomehow, the dark sun will illuminate us. (555) This, leafing again through Sirc&#8217;s &#8220;Godless Composition, Tormented Writing,&#8221; for tomorrow&#8217;s grad class, third to last of the semester. Reading this line again makes me think that Bataille&#8217;s wonderment is thick in the ground just beneath the site where the still-unbuilt hacienda would if it could one-day...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Earth Wide Moth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Derek Mueller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Derek Mueller\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Derek Mueller\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"headline\":\"Somehow\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":59,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"keywords\":[\"composition\",\"Sirc\",\"sun\",\"tormented\",\"writing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Dry Ogre Chalking\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/\",\"name\":\"Somehow - Earth Wide Moth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/2014\\\/12\\\/01\\\/somehow\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Somehow\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Earth Wide Moth\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b\",\"name\":\"Derek Mueller\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\",\"width\":1220,\"height\":480,\"caption\":\"Derek Mueller\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.derekmueller.net\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/derek.mueller\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/dereknmueller\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/dnmueller\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.earthwidemoth.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/dmueller\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Somehow - Earth Wide Moth","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Somehow - Earth Wide Moth","og_description":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time:  &lt; 1 minSomehow, the dark sun will illuminate us. (555) This, leafing again through Sirc&#8217;s &#8220;Godless Composition, Tormented Writing,&#8221; for tomorrow&#8217;s grad class, third to last of the semester. Reading this line again makes me think that Bataille&#8217;s wonderment is thick in the ground just beneath the site where the still-unbuilt hacienda would if it could one-day...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/","og_site_name":"Earth Wide Moth","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","article_published_time":"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00","author":"Derek Mueller","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Derek Mueller"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/"},"author":{"name":"Derek Mueller","@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"headline":"Somehow","datePublished":"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/"},"wordCount":59,"publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"keywords":["composition","Sirc","sun","tormented","writing"],"articleSection":["Dry Ogre Chalking"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/","url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/","name":"Somehow - Earth Wide Moth","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-12-01T13:47:59+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/01\/somehow\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Somehow"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/","name":"Earth Wide Moth","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66fc5e80a62f53057760790b1cfeb24b","name":"Derek Mueller","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480","width":1220,"height":480,"caption":"Derek Mueller"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cropped-bmartwork.png?fit=1220%2C480"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.derekmueller.net\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/derek.mueller","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dereknmueller\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dnmueller"],"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/author\/dmueller\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7tdGk-somehow","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7023,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/sirc-virtual-ur\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":0},"title":"Sirc, &#8220;Virtual Urbanism&#8221;","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"August 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sirc, Geoffrey. \"Virtual Urbanism.\" Computers and Composition 18 (2001) 11-19. Sirc's piece is fueled by textbooks found in a \"retiring colleague's garbage\" (11). Identifying the virtual academic as a name for \"official composition,\" Sirc develops what he calls a counterpoint, virtual urbanism, which has been around for at least as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Writing Technologies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writing Technologies","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/writing_technol\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7084,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/23\/sirc-english-co-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":1},"title":"Sirc, English Composition as a Happening","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"November 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Sirc, Geoffrey. English Composition as a Happening. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2002. How do we make the classroom a happening space, a space \"no one wants to leave\"? In English Composition as a Happening, Sirc winds through a series of statements--a gallery crawl--contrasting, allegorically, Modern Composition studies and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Writing Technologies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Writing Technologies","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/writing_technol\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Space","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/29\/44408880_569c2e59ea_m.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7098,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/13\/haynes-writing\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":2},"title":"Haynes, &quot;Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory&quot;","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"June 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Haynes, Cynthia. \"Writing Offshore: The Disappearing Coastline of Composition Theory.\" JAC 23.4 (2003): 667-724. Haynes calls for composition-theory in motion, a willingness to drift all the while cognizant that \"so much defies reason\" (669). If composition's theoretical currents are akin to waters upon which we float, in much that same\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Reading Notes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Reading Notes","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/reading_notes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6695,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/07\/databasic-writi\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":3},"title":"Databasic Writing","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"February 7, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Our program requires that we attend two mini-seminars every semester. Several different mini-seminars are available, from three-hour sessions on a single day concerned with the discipline (the Reese's PB Cup variety of rhetoric in my composition and vice versa), world Englishes, WAC, or some other topic, to sessions broken across\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Dry Ogre Chalking&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Dry Ogre Chalking","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/dry_ogre_chalking\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6336,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/genre-sircumven\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":4},"title":"Genre Sirc-umvention","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"June 27, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"We have evolved a very limited notion of academic writing (or any genre, really).\u00a0 Our texts are conventional in every sense of the word; they write themselves. They are almost wholly determined by the texts that have gone before; a radical break from the conventions of a form or genre\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Genre&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Genre","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/genre\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7741,"url":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/aphorism-aphid-tick\/","url_meta":{"origin":7447,"position":5},"title":"Aphorism Aphid Tick","author":"Derek Mueller","date":"May 17, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Writing in the abstract also suggests learning the rhetorical device of brevity and the rhetorical power of the aphorism. Teaching the value of exploring something in the abstract, without practical purpose or intention, would return composition pedagogy to its sophistic ethos (we dare not say roots). In other words, finding\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Distances&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Distances","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/category\/distances\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}