Category Archives: contemporary-rhetoric

End of Semester Blues

Posted on December 6, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Tomorrow night is my last night of Fall 2010–which has been my favorite semester thus far at University of South Florida. My Contemporary Rhetorics class was awesome; we enjoyed a guest interview with Thomas Rickert, read D. Diane Davis’ new … Continue reading →

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Institutional Responsibility

Posted on September 28, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

The other day a colleague and I were discussing what to teach in this post-postmodern age, generally agreeing that rehashing the theory-science wars was counterproductive, and that teaching deconstructive critique (as a purely epistemological exercise) was out of steam. See … Continue reading →

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Assessment from a Poetic Perspective

Posted on September 1, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

My wife today sent me a link to Heather K. Phillips MFA thesis project. Heather is a recent graduate of RISD; her project speaks to the legitimation of critique and the ubiquity of assessment at all levels of education. Here’s … Continue reading →

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