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Insignificant Wranglings
Category Archives: politics
Zakaria and Political Reality
I missed a post yesterday, so two posts today. First, a brief comment on Zakarias’ article “How Conservatism Has Lost Touch with Reality. A friend has a rather scathing response to Zakarias over at his blog, arguing that Zakarias is … Continue reading
Its Crap
Today I learned that a friend from grad school–a dedicated high school teacher–lost his job yesterday, along with about 80 other teachers, when his town voted against a tax increase. To echo David Harvey’s conclusion to his RSAnimate talk, “its … Continue reading
With a Little Help from My Friends
I have other things that need to get done. Deadlines that have passed. Deadlines that approach. But I’m going to take 30 minutes to write something. This has been brewing for awhile, but I have neither energy nor time to … Continue reading
Posted in I'm-angry-as-hell, politics, visual-rhetoric-class
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Help Save the National Writing Project
David Beard called attention to the killing of the Striving Readers and National Writing Project over on the Blogora today. I repost an email posted by David: David Beard, Federal legislation for Striving Readers and the National Writing Project passed … Continue reading
Latour, Gorgias, and Levinas Take 15
This article keeps beating me up–every time I think I know what I am doing, it runs away. I believe I am finally whipping it in to shape, but I want to make sure the following paragraphs make sense to … Continue reading
Deconstruction, Responsibility, and Greek-Europeans
Thanks Casey–I have a sneaking suspicion that when it comes to books, we have divergent tastes. When it comes to teaching, we share quite a lot. Like my last post, this started as a comment and grew into a long … Continue reading
Posted in deconstruction, derrida, enlightenment, holocaust, kant, politics, responsibility
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That’s Not O.K. Purdue Exponent
So I am a fan of Lanham’s theory of Attention Economy (link to interview) and I tend to enjoy a raunchy joke. As other’s have noted, Purdue’s student newspaper, the Exponent recently tried their hand at both. In a perverse … Continue reading
Posted in feminism-is-still-necessary, politics, religion
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Climategate…
…clearly the work of some committed philosophizers, right Casey? I’m glad John Quiggin has the rhetorical ability to set the record straight. But, seriously, yeeesh.
Posted in politics, rhetoric, this-is-not-ok
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Robertson is Crazy
Sometimes rhetoric is just about identification, and I hope that subject line identifies me properly. Robertson probably doesn’t warrant any more analysis than what Olbermann provided, but Scott McLemee over at Crooked Timber has an interesting piece that examines the … Continue reading
Why the New “V” Isn’t “Battlestar”
This started as an email to Casey’s question of what I thought of the new V last night. He remarked that the show had clear conservative overtones. My response: I agree on the conservative overtones- but art is meant to … Continue reading
Posted in politics, television
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