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Cooking and Debating: Debating and the Need for a New Metaphor
The history of American intercollegiate debate practice is mostly the tracking of metaphors. Debate instructors and debate practice has always been connected to some metaphor that communicates the value and importance of debate as an educational practice. Since the mid 20th century, that metaphor has only been “fair competition” and further reduced to “fair tournament…
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Debate and/is/as A Singularity
One of my most read essays is one that was unanimously rejected from every editor who has had a look at it. I’ve imagined re-writing it recently in order to make it a bit more publishable. I figure since it’s circulated a bit it might be able to find a journal home for a while,…
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Infrequently Asked Questions
Circle-no-questions (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Why do I feel that coming to an event like this, ostensibly only about debating, do I find more people interested in my research and interested in my writing than I found among the professors in my field that I studied with in graduate school? Why is it that “the choice”…
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ECA: Two Thoughts from today’s conference
Enjoying the ECA Conference very much. Heard a lot of smart things today. Reflecting on them quite a bit, but I have a couple of initial thoughts. First, I think I have found a new rhetorical move similar to Mary Daly’s argument about how feminist and gender issues are always put on the back burner…
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Eastern Communication Association Conference in Boston
Minecraft Castle (Photo credit: Mike_Cooke) Rhode Island is my staging area for my first trip to the Eastern Communication Association conference. I’m giving a paper tomorrow on Minecraft and the ancient practice of Declamation at around 18:30 GMT in Cambridge, close to Harvard University, but not really hosted there or in any association with them…
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JDA Final Day
Yesterday was great – saw a very interesting lecture from David Hingstman on the history of forensics in the law in which he called the current confusion around forensic education (debate and speech) and forensic science a good thing, and something worth preserving a bit of uncertainty about. Especially within the context of a lay-jury…
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The Conference Begins
Today marks the first day of panels and presentations at the JDA Conference here in Tama. Chuo University is hosting, and the hospitality has been superb. Last night kicked off with a talk from Takao Tanase on Rhetoric and Justice in Japan. After that there was a very nice reception at the hotel including wines,…
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Summer Reading
Professor David Harvey, an expert on Marx and Marxism is teaching a course on Marx’s Capital vol. I on his blog. I have to say this is really really awesome, but it comes with interesting caveats. First, who is this for? What good is teaching with no interaction? This is my critique of all those…
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Poetry Reading/Discussion in NYC
Looks like a great talk. Too bad I’ll be in Tokyo. If you go, let me know how it was! Jose Garcia Villa | New York Public Library
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Playing with Fire 3.0
Playing around with the new Firefox 3.0 and I must say it is a responsive, light and very useful browser. I’ve been using Internet Explorer up until now and this morning I no longer need it. Here are three great plug-ins for Firefox that should have anyone who does scholarly work converting right away. 1.…
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