Category Archives: Vitanza

Latour, Levinas, Vitanza, a Rhetoric of Obligation

Posted on March 9, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

A quick threading of my last few posts: Levinas, from the later essay “God and Philosophy” (a rather remarkable essay that integrates so much of Levinas’s career–the discussion of insomnia from Time and the Other, the insistence upon (un)saying the … Continue reading →

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Messiness as a Virtue

Posted on March 8, 2012 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

I’m re-reading Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous today for my New Media class and really appreciating his chapter “Messiness as a Virtue.” Two passages worth sharing (i.e., remembering): Simplicity was the only reasonable strategy before we developed machines that can handle … Continue reading →

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Berlin, Vitanza, and Self/Assessment

Posted on October 13, 2010 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Last night my graduate course on Contemporary Rhetoric spent some time in 1996; we discussed two important treatments of postmodern theory in Rhetoric and Composition–Vitanza and Berlin. Below is the lecture I gave. Those who shared a former life with … Continue reading →

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