A response from a student upon reading Peter Elbow:
“Secondly, upon reading this article, I found myself becoming angry. I don’t think this has anything to do with Elbow himself or his methods, but more to do with the insignificance of the matter. After losing a high school classmate this week, I realized just how trivial [...]
Archive for February, 2008
So what?
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I <3 Manuel Castells
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’d actually forgotten how pleasant it is to read Manuel Castells. Really, what’s wrong with me? Why have I been putting that off? (Oh yes, 400 page volumes are kinda heavy to lug around, but really, I’ve got no excuse.)
Castells recognizes the power of groups in the information age over states and nation-states in The [...]
Posthumanism Debunked by Cool
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In Avatar Bodies, Ann Weinstone lays out a theory of human interaction for posthumanism that focuses on the connections between people instead of the connections between human + computer (as Haraway, Hayles, et al are more concerned with). She then goes on to develop a number of thought exercises aimed at bringing together an ethics [...]
Just Girls? Try Women Too.
Posted in Uncategorized on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those strange connections I’ve made that I feel is worth documenting, it might mean something later, and it’s tangentially related to the other reading I’ve done this week (I swear).
I’ve been researching the way women use blogs for a bit, and the ways in which they feel threatened on them through [...]
Hegel me this….
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Having just read a “gob” of Hegel in a little over a week, I feel overwhelmed. I have most definitely determined that in the future I’ll be writing several small responses throughout the week as time allows, because otherwise cramming everything into one post is sort of difficult. (Also, a question to the general blogosphere: [...]
