Worthwhile to consider this trend in terms of the classification schemes that Bowker and Star critique in Sorting Things Out.

Related in theory to Zuboff's notion of behavioral surplus

so strange... i was searching 'gold' and came across this phrase inverted as one of Leopold's musings. then i realized a version of this phrase — gold by bronze, or bronze by gold — recurs throughout the novel.

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The author of this sentence draws attention to the generalized claims of "Some individuals" but fails to explicitly name or cite those who indeed hold such views, which are themselves too vague to be informative on the topic.

Ironically, this contributor also makes vague reference to "a specific model or specific aspects of such a model" but does not present any clear examples of what such models or aspects might entail in the context of cultural diversity.

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I'm curious how instructors might facilitate constructivist learning through productive digression via in-text social reading prompts, where asynchronous conversation is seeded in context. Perhaps instructors could turn this tension between anchored conversations and productive digression into a reciprocal advantage by encouraging students to annotate with intertextuality in mind, or better yet, have students free-associate on a word/phrase and let their responders go from there. Doing so might foster rhetorical patterns and opportunities for reflexive inquiry if developed in the mid-range composing acts (e.g. blog/discussion posts) that Ugoretz discusses here. That process would also work with a variety of digital artifacts situated in new media discourse.

I find this to be particularly important, in part because if you have clear goals then you're usually less susceptible to distractions.

Archives are only worth their weight in water if interested parties can find what they're looking for. When artifacts aren't gathered and curated into public-facing unities or collections, then history elides them until further notice. These threads are still floating in the sprawl of the Twitterverse, placed into history and drowned out by an ocean of pure, frantic noise. What this piece makes evident to me is the need for restoration: that they need to be resurfaced, preserved, made visible again.

First comes the cybernetic meadow, then the cybernetic forest, and ultimately the cybernetic ecology. Brautigan profiles this expansion in third line of each stanza. i wonder where else we might find correspondences of the sort.

I spy a double entendre.

How might this double meaning introduce thematic tension into the poem? What other literary devices does Brautigan employ to underscore this tension? Annotate your findings and explain your reasoning.

Now there's a touchstone for the ages

A dedicated sponge in the blank countenance of empty space and flat time, I'd say.