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- Feb 2019
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am aware it will be said, that written language is only a copy of that which is spoken
Others have theorized that this is just not true. Yagelski sees writing and thought as running more fluidly together with experiences and "being in the world."
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herefore, the university's curricular philosophy or "study methods" will have a profound effect on both the individual and society.
Robert Yagelski basically makes this argument, citing Cartesian dualism as a major factor in why we're destroying our planet. In ignoring the interconnectivity of all things, we fail to understand the myriad effects our actions have on the (natural) world around us.
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- Jan 2019
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foucault.info foucault.info
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As an element of self-training, writing has, to use an expression that one finds in Plutarch, an ethopoietic function: it is an agent of the transformation of truth into ethos.
This reminds me of Robert Yagelski's Writing as a Way of Being, where writing as the act, the experience, is what's valuable, not so much the product that results. The experience of writing allows a transformation of the writer.
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