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Up Early With a Dog
My life has radically changed since I was last blogging. I moved to the suburbs, got a dog, a partner, a car, and I’m up before the sun. My partner gets up early for work so I get up pretty early too. I think it’s nice to have some time in the morning together. As…
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Nothing Quite Like WordPress
Looks like I’m back on BlueHost typing away. Watching a little football today and got nostalgic for my old WordPress site. So here we are again, three years later, doing it. I have a number of substack posts that I might import but then again why? I will probably just rewrite them with some edits…
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Recent Reflections on Rhetoric
We are in the midst of hiring, and it’s a lot of work. It seems like all my time has evaporated between this and trying to make some very new approaches to teaching (which aren’t satisfying). The approaches to teaching I’m trying are based on a deep distrust of my intuitive ways of approaching the…
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The Rhetorical Demise of Twitch
Twitch might not be around much longer. Amazon announcing that they are cutting 35% of their workforce is grim news indeed. It is hard for me to believe it’s doing so poorly since I have always thought Twitch was an underdeveloped idea. I was very lucky to talk to Twitch staff years ago by offering…
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"Why Don't You Talk About The Book?"
Reviewing my teaching (read “teaching”) this semester is depressing. That’s the thesis of this piece. My first-year students are not accessible via the normal commonplaces of the classroom which would include: Read this text, what was interesting about it to you? What do you think about this piece? What stands out to you as interesting…
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Incapacity in the Classroom: A Dialectical View
This is an essay about incapacity in two variants sparked by having what I currently feel is the worst semester of teaching I’ve ever had. I believe the issues origins are interesting to discuss but are not relevant, as the quest for origins and starting points isn’t something that should interest a rhetorician. Instead the…
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