The catalyst for change is not necessarily a desire to share the ethos of dialogue and collaboration that has shaped some new forms of peer review and publication in the digital spac

one goal of the journal is to offer scholars strategies for making their pedagogical, editorial, and design work legible as scholarship to tenure committees, job search committees, and the discipline as a whole

In this sense, the rhetorician weighs the positive and negative possibilities of different types of textual appropriation against desired objectives:

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Set project work with explicit networking goals and a phil project as part of it. Mandate that students find off campus resources which they curate and present to class (either online, on a collab blog, or in class), reward students with facetime on their blog – good posts and comments get lecturer feedback,.

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One of them, Chuck Johnson, said, “I don’t want this to be done in my name in this town anymore.”

That year and the next, he paid off at least $1,200 in fines, although he apparently still owed about $500.

In the seven states that collect the most comprehensive data on traffic stops, analysts have found often-striking disparities in how African-American drivers are treated. In two of the states, Connecticut and Rhode Island, changes in traffic enforcement followed.

. Sensual objects exist for real objects, namely, me, or some other perceiver. So I’ve got the caricature of the table and the caricature of the chair, those caricatures have no relation to each other. They have relation only for me, because my experience unifies both of them. So the real is always the bridge for the two sensuals; the sensual is always the bridge for the two reals. And that’s what we try to analyse in Object-Oriented Philosophy

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that leads to the fourth and final point I was going to make which is that since real objects withdraw from each other, the only option is that sensual objects are the glue between them.

I simply borrowed this term from com-puter science as a joke. I don’t know a lot about object-oriented programming.

Could these medieval traditions issue another call, then—a call for the reassessment, if not adjustment, of the disciplinary language of speculative realism and the cognate philosophies, their modus procendi et loquendi? Will that call be heard?

Well, you would write something about "withdrawn objects," as Harman does, just as Kant would write of things-in-themselves—with the key difference being that philosophers who absorb the Kantian lesson know the limits of their discourse, whereas those who flout that lesson take off into flights of pure reason, speculating about the interior life of objects and getting inside the heads of things. (The other key difference for Harman, of course, is Heidegger, whom Harman needs to revise because he does not help with this one Kantian fundamental: Heidegger admits that human attention and awareness—that is, what constitutes a subject—are special aspects of human consciousness needing philosophical analysis.) The Kantian problem remains in place: if there is something that cannot be thought, then maybe it cannot be thought. You cannot write your way any closer to the object, circle the wagons of indirection and allusion around it as you may.

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Fichte knew that this initial relationship with objects is a mystical one and requires the mystical discourse of the summons. He understood that our moment of spontaneous receptivity to the call of things is the moment before self-consciousness. It is the moment before self-thematizing, the moment when the self has yet to define itself over and against objects, the moment—in other words—before Kant.

we are working our way toward asking how the fundamental Heideggerian principles of speculative realism (Harman 2005, 76) remain informed by medieval mysticism and indeed what a mystical discourse can do for objects deemed mysterious.3

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This principle is, I will show, a convenient fiction in this new work, enabling the philosopher to hear the call of things and to speak to and for them, despite the new rule that we cannot think of objects as being-for-us and must reject older philosophies smacking of "presence" and traditional ontology or ontotheology

Ontology is the philosophical study of existence. Object-oriented ontology (“OOO” for short) puts things at the center of this study. Its proponents contend that nothing has special status, but that everything exists equally–plumbers, cotton, bonobos, DVD players, and sandstone, for example. In contemporary thought, things are usually taken either as the aggregation of ever smaller bits (scientific naturalism) or as constructions of human behavior and society (social relativism). OOO steers a path between the two, drawing attention to things at all scales (from atoms to alpacas, bits to blinis), and pondering their nature and relations with one another as much with ourselves. (bogost.com)

as a complex network through which we all pass everyday

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Painful public texts are important to engage not in order to feelpained, but in order to affirm our life in the sensorium. By considering these texts asactive agents within both the epistemic and sensorial realms, we are simultaneouslyundoing the pathological effects ofprivacy.

If communication, or speech, is a matter of being gatheredtogether, then we should also consider the ways we are gathered together bypathological texts. In experiencing the commonality ofbeing woundedsimply byexposure within the sensorium, along with its contamination risk, we are gathered.Again, we aim not simply to“feel bad together.”Reflecting on how texts alterstructures of feeling is one way to re-attune our capacity to beinterestedin rhetoric’spublic realm.

"This is monumentally stupid political theater," Bradley Moss, a lawyer who specializes in security clearances, told The Hill in an email.

So I typically note that these are extensively researched theories, practices, and methods designed to help students learn not for the test or the grade but for the best possible retention and application of complex ideas that they will use in this class, in other classes, and in their lives beyond school. 

Everyone is busy, very busy.  So we’ve set an ideal limit of 50-60 pages of outside reading per week, plus everyone reads the class blog written by one or, at most, two classmates each week and writes a response.

Learning to plan a syllabus for the real lives of students is respectful and encourages success, not failure and honest attention, not fakery, plagiarism and other workarounds.

More trusting in others.  More uncertainty about outcomes

The whole value system changes:  they are not doing your assignment for your grade.  They are learning as a survival skill, for personal growth, because it is meaningful to them.

“When you say black lives matter, that’s inherently racist,” Mr. Giuliani

Recently the Polish foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, came over to the UK in a bid to stop the idiom becoming reality. In his speech at Blenheim Palace, he warned Britons against the easy temptations of exiting the EU.

“I don’t want to sound too positive, because I wouldn’t want her as prime minister,” he added, “but I would rather have her than the rest of those that are standing, because at least she is competent.”

here is a great need, in my view, to problematize expertise, to find ways to rearticulate it within the circulation of knowledge.

More pre- cisely, I want students to see that the shift in register and genre between a jour- nal article and a news report amounts to a shift in modality-the relative credibility and authoritativeness invested in written statements-that marks journal articles as "original" contributions and news reports as secondary and derivative

agenda, for students to un- derstand how that act of translation nec- It is no easy task to imagine how writing, media messages, or signifying practices of any sort can be turned into socially useful knowledge. essarily participates in and shapes the circulation of biomedical discourse in ways that go beyond simple information transfer and the attendant problem of accuracy/inaccuracy that so often frames such assignments. To do this, we need to reconstruct the systems of distribution and exchange through which messages about breast cancer circulate; to identify how the means of produc- tion (laboratories, equipment, scientific expertise) are distributed, material- ized, and reproduced; and to consider how moments of consumption are articulated within this circuit.

The contradiction be- tween exchange value and use value weighs heavily on the circulation of professional and academic writing of all types.

My point is simply that we cannot understand what is entailed when people encounter written texts without taking into account how the labor power em- bodied in the commodity form articulates a mode of production and its pre- vailing social relations

and the question to begin with is not so much where the commodity goes as what it carries in its internal workings as it cir- culate

He wanted to chart a strategy for the working class to overthrow capitalism and reorganize production to meet social needs

In contrast, for neo-Marxists such as Richard Johnson and Stuart Hall, although they certainly offer a fuller and more complex sense of circulation, there is a nonetheless a peculiar reluc- tance to talk about cultural products and media messages as commodities.

To my mind, Marx's notion of the commodity, with its divided inner work- ings, is the key figure missing from many present-day cultural studies' accounts

The term "category" is crucial here, for what Marx means by the commodity is not simply a thing (whether a product, message, good, or service) but the ma- terialization of an underlying and contradictory social process.

Second, and perhaps more important, Marx wanted to explain the various moments in the circulation of commodities- the cycle of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption-not as a se- ries of separate events taking place in a predetermined order over time but dialectically, as mediations in mutual and coterminous relations that consti- tute the capitalist mode of production as a total system

My point is that the epistemological and discursive status of a television show such as The Honeymooners or Buffy the Vampire Slayer-how, in other words, it can be known in its various transformations or "passages of form"-depends on how it circulates and, in effect, how it is exchanged and capitalized.

circulation (and the underlying political economy). That is, the encoding and decoding of a television show depend in important respects on whether it was broadcast on prime time in the 1950s, appears on Nick at Nite as a syndicated re-run, turns up as a clip in a documentary on the "Golden Age of Television,"

What Hall correctly calls its "specific modality and conditions of existence" ("Encoding" 129) cannot be understood apart from it

(Bartholomae andPetrosky iii) of the academy; if certain disciplines feel the need to use thosetexts, they’re free to teach students their intricacies themselves.A box-logicalgenre like this displaces such texts from the writing class, substituting a basicawareness of how to use language and information, a cool project, and a senseof poetry.

sustained inquiry, of the search as project—for me themost crucial part of the academic enterprise.

the important things emphasizedhere are voice,inquiry, atmosphere, selection, insight, and interesting materi-als.

ow students to practice the basic skills of con-temporary composition: search and selection, arrangement/juxtaposition/lay-out, and self-expression. They learn a little of the basic logic of academic, cita-tional prose, as well: how one text is used to read or make sense of another text,with the writer’s own work a triangulation among data-sites. Students getpractice in using electronic technology (to both search and arrange), and theyalso get practice in writing as a way of being, of developing a stance and voicein the textual world.

my challenge, I feel, is to have these youngpeople burnish not anthologized writers’ essays but their own form of power-ful pensée, while, certainly, at the same time learning some kind of basic prosestyling to help them avoid verbal pitfalls in formal settings.

I do, though, want them to see thelogic of the box as compositional grammar, what it implies about interestingresearch, selection, arrangement, and expression.

I’m suggesting, then, a pedagogy of the curio cabinet, anaesthetic of the objet trouvé. One that rejects auratic craft as weird and obses-sive, in favor of celebrating the basic image, seeing perception as a performa-tive gesture

Nottext as representation, but as trace or remainder, gesturing towards situationsthat once existed and were strongly felt, re-activatable with their concomitantquota of wonder.Pulsion as a term we now need for evaluating composition.

There’s something increasingly untenable about the integrated coherenceof college essayist prose, in which the easy falseness of a unified resolution getsprized over the richer, more difficult, de facto text the world presents itself as

I want students—designers, now,not essayists—free for such associational drifts; entering things naively, with-out countless rehearsals; trying to capture a mood or vision

Thus, no draft is ever finished, espe-cially in the arbitrary scope of an academic semester. For Cornell, “no ‘work’could ever be really finished, for much of its meaning continued to mill in hisimagination” (Ashton 2).

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Her solution is pedagogical: a shift toward inquiry as social action. Rather than encouraging students merely to write about what interests them or to take a definitive position in a paper or speech (requiring them to decide whether something is good or bad), Rice proposes that educators encourage their students to investigate the complexities of a given topic without a commitment to reaching a conclusion.

terror warrior. And I mean real terror warrior.

We’re affluent, well-educated, gainfully employed and successfully retired.

And I think, even with those very, very material traces of history, one has to remember that the archive is a scene of invention, not a place of referential plenitude.

At this point, we might now return to Trimbur's question-What called this writing into being?-with an eye toward the affective, experiential primacy of a body-in-context.

rather "[ w ]riting is always already writing for some purpose that can only be understood in its community context" (89)

More specifically, I argue that rhetoricity itself operates through an active mutuality between signification and affect.

In the following article, I want to make a case for why we should talk about affect when we talk about writing, reading, and literacy

writing scenes are overwhelmingly populated by bodies: shocked, angry, delighted, and feeling-full bodies. Although many models of composition focus upon the signifying dimensions of writing, they often fail to account for writing's experiential aspects.

Even the most wayward street writers must "figure out what relationship to establish with readers, how to establish this relation-ship, what voice to use, and what genre" (20).

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In Monday's interview with Bash, he expressed absolute loyalty to Trump despite being dismissed from the campaign manager job.

His perspective might be uniquely valuable given that he was Trump's right hand man up until this week.

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The movie seems made to be launched into a virtual media space, to become itself a subject and element of discourse, but without reflecting on its own position there or on the status of the archive or the investigations that make it possible.

For all the contentiousness at the heart of “O. J.: Made in America,” it reflects a time when a bastion of norms held fast—restraining the forces of both change and hatred alike.

It has been a slogan since the late sixties that “the personal is political,” but it has taken until the age of social media for that ideal to approach reality, because social media has effaced the distinction. Web sites of quasi-private communications are actually very public; private lives are copiously self-documented and publicized;

The information effect

The kind of due diligence that, in the mid-nineteen-nineties, would have taxed a team of private eyes is now readily available at the touch of an “enter” key. The fact that a virtual ocean of information exists doesn’t mean that it’s known, doesn’t mean that a prosecution team would now do better at warding off its effect on the jury, and doesn’t mean that a defense team would make different use of it.

"Do you think that the elections are democratic in the United States?" Putin asked Zakaria, adding: "Twice in American history, a president was elected who did not get the majority of votes."

to point to because it “exists” only in a state of perpetual alteration: “Digital text is, above all, malleable … there is little sense in attempting to replicate the permanence of print [itself an illusion, according to the digital vision] in a medium whose chief value is change.” (Fitzpatrick

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Critical pedagogy is thus invested in both the practice of self-criticism about the values that inform teaching and a critical self-consciousness regarding what it means to equip students with analytical skills to be self-reflective about the knowledge and values they confront in classrooms.

Freire rejected those modes of pedagogy that supported economic models and modes of agency in which freedom is reduced to consumerism and economic activity is freed from any criterion except profitability and the reproduction of a rapidly expanding mass of wasted humans.

Consequently, there is little interest in both public and higher education, and most importantly in many schools of education, for understanding pedagogy as a deeply civic, political and moral practice - that is, pedagogy as a practice for freedom.

They are well aware of who will be doing the work and who will be doing the grading. If we want to establish a real community within our classroom, we need to do it honestly. As Elbow points out, an "honest exercise of authority, even if hated, would not bamboozle" (91). It is time to recover the I in our discourse.

. Beginning there, we must acknowledge that there is control, management, power, and manipulation at play in the classroom; and the best way to not let these dynamics unsettle learning is to be transparent about how they function (and to brazenly show the chinks in their armor).

n our contemporary situation, the excess of information creates an excess of noise and the increased demand for schemata or screen

"complex adaptive system."

but rather to undermine the very notion that one truth [...] exists" (27). This logic of the "and" of an always expanding dissoi logoi situates the subj ect in a network of multiple forces and attempts to address the complexity of our current cultural situation

the "weaker" argument that can easily turn to become the stronger. Situations are more complex than dialectics ac counts for.

he term also means to create meaning through language

But schemata actually move such mental grids from a synchronic position

This basic process has implications for rhetorical heuristics: (1) students need to develop their own schemata to fit their particular topics/situations, and (2) if we give them schemata first, their goal should be to revise those schemata as a part of the invention process rather than follow them prescriptively

Simply applying rhetorical systems developed in the context of ancient Greece to our contempo rary period seems to fall into the desire for simplicity that Taylor hopes to counter

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his has certainly been the tendency in rhetoric and composition, whose primary debate has been between two opposing methods for simplifying the complexity of writ ing.

“Hillary’s about appealing as leukemia.

So not only does current-traditionalism eviscerate rhetoric in theory, but it also eviscerates rhetoric (and perhaps literature, too) in practice: current-traditionalism reduces rhetoric to style and form, style and form are devalued as basic, and the basics should be taught before college.

Fish’s belletristic current-traditionalism thus reinforces popular beliefs that need no reinforcing: the belief that academic work is a pastime that “only a small number of people in the world care” about, and that the humani-ties are as relevant to the real world as a degree in fencing.

Here we see how poststructural textual fixation, the ille ne pas hors texte, opens the door for current-traditionalism: language, Fish asserts, is not “the vehicle of a subject matter it serves” but “is its own subject matter” (135–36).

o excise from the classroom all politicizing as Fish defines it—encompassing everything that is not academicized, and thus everything from polemi-cal indoctrination to civic participation—is to excise rhetoric itself.

Once students have learned to construct a proper sentence, how exactly do they proceed to “write anything?

Take “Jane baked cookies” or some other sentence of the same structure and build it up and out into a sentence of at least 100 words without losing control of the sentence’s basic structure. That is, you should be able to describe the relationship between the words and phrases you add and the sentence’s core structural logic, a logic your additions and elaborations must honor and preserve. (“Writing”)

They will certainly not be learning anything about how language works” (41)

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“The thing about Trump is, he has been turning out historic numbers, even in my state here,” Mr. Lott said.

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Two women and a man were injured in the fracas, during which black people "started hitting whatever white people got in their way," Killilea said.

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The quandary—for Sanders and for the Party—is that the corruption of the political system is his issue. Last week, he was asked on the “Today” show about Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” line, and he called it “an ugly statement.” But, when asked if he, in a roundabout way, hadn’t also called Clinton crooked, he smiled and said, “In that case, the entire United States government is crooked.”

Germany depends on exports for its wealth and on the United States for its security. Yet many Germans do not see the trade agreement as a good thing.

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This kind of corporate pablum about Shakespeare tends to reflect the popular notion, sometimes unspoken but implied, that Shakespeare was, fundamentally, a conservative.

Students have reacted to claims from university professors that they struggle to read books from cover to cover by admitting it is true -

Logos principle

This principle is, I will show, a convenient fiction in this new work, enabling the philosopher to hear the call of things and to speak to and for them, despite the new rule that we cannot think of objects as being-for-us and must reject older philosophies smacking of “presence” and traditional ontology or ontotheology.

according to the new line of thinking, objects should be recognized for their indifference to us, for the sorts of things they do behind our backs, and for the ways in which they “are” behind appear-ances

To be an effective writer today, one must be an iconophilic who always plays on multiple registers at once.

we must learn to think and write not only with words but also with images, sounds, designs.

decentered subj ectivity

If the university is to have a future in the twenty-first century, writers rather than scholars must lead the way

We can no longer write merely with words but now must learn how to think and write with images and sound. Design?visual as well as graphic?becomes integral to writing.

riting, by contrast, is transgressive

The process of peer review ensures the inviola bility of these codes and, in this way, discourages innovative work. What does not conform to the code is deemed unacceptable.

would like to encourage them to be as creative and inventive as possible. But the reality is that the academy is incredibly conserva tive .

If you are not pushing the envelope, why write?

Works that I have labeled not-writing are regu larly reviewed positively in scholarly journals

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He said the District, Maryland and Virginia should create a dedicated funding source, such as a regionwide sales tax, to provide an additional $1 billion a year to Metro for capital investment such as maintenance. He also said the federal government needed to provide $300 million a year in additional money for operations.

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She behaves like a person who often doesn't know what the truth is, but instead merely reaches for what is the best answer in that moment, not realizing the difference.

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According to the New America Foundation, 103 Americans have been killed by terrorism since 9/11. Over a comparable period of time, 2000 through 2010, approximately 108 Americans died by having TVs fall on them, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. And at 72 fatalities, domestic mass shootings in 2016 alone have killed more Americans than terrorism has in the past 15 years, according to the VICE Mass Shooting Tracker.

“But what we won’t do and should not do is take approaches that are going to be counterproductive. When I hear someone say we should carpet-bomb Iraq or Syria, not only is that inhumane, not only is that contrary to our values, that would likely be an extraordinary mechanism for ISIL to recruit more people willing to die and explode bombs in an airport or in a metro station. That’s not a smart strategy.”

“The notion that we should have surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present — I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance,” Obama said of his stop in Cuba before arriving in Argentina.

“a sincere objection to opting out of a legal requirement based on the knowledge that the government will then arrange for others to fulfill the requirement does not establish a substantial burden.”

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The reality —as Obama learned in the aftermath of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. — is that impressive battlefield statistics and reasoned calls for restraint mean little in the climate of fear generated by terror strikes.

If we’re trying to help undergraduate writers enter the scholarly discourse, let’s allow their writing to look even more like academic writing.

Why, then, aren’t we teaching first-year undergraduate writers to use footnotes?

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