Today I talked to some Clemson graduate students about the arts of beginning well and ending well in academic writing genres (WAC). I'm incredibly happy to have been a part of such an amazing event put on by Clemson's GRAD360 program, and to have had the chance to talk with such brilliant folks. Writing across … Continue reading Hooks & Sinkers: Writing Effective Introductions and Conclusions in Academic Writing
Simulacrum and Power: Perception, Imagination, Reality It seems we are always witnesses. Forbidden Planet tells us many things. It tells us that there are worlds behind us that we can never access, that we can only grasp at. It tells us there are worlds beyond us, that we again, are only capable of grasping at. … Continue reading Forbidden Planet and Film Rhetoric
One could certainly be forgiven for asking the customary question in response to the title of this book review: what does a French sociologist and anthropologist, with no training in composition and seemingly no knowledge of rhetoric studies’ existence as a discipline, have to contribute to the field of academic and … Continue reading Book Review: Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition
Words Are Not Wind: Sandbox Writing (Channeling Michel Foucault) This will not be an academic response. There is no argument here. Rather, it’s an “artistic playing-around-with” some of the thinkers we’ve been reading. Think of it like a sandbox. Someone painted some letters in the sand last night, and I’ve sat … Continue reading Words Are Not Wind: Sandbox Writing
The following was originally written as a weekly course post on Roman Rhetorics for RCID 8010 at Clemson University. --- How does language think? The question is too large. A different question would read how does Latin think?, and then would perhaps add on, additionally, at the end so … Continue reading How Does Language Think?
Attic Hellebores: Aristotle, Excess and the Reticent Sedation of Kairos Aristotle has been expounded time and time again as a forebear of western thinking. Indeed, western rhetoric and philosophy owe an unpayable debt to the primordial systematizer, the inventor of disciplinarity, the constructor of the most developed epistemologies of ancient Hellenic … Continue reading Attic Hellebores: Aristotle, Excess and the Reticent Sedation of Kairos
Here's a MyStory I made, a la Gregory Ulmer. I've been studying Ulmer's work for a few years now, and I've always wanted to explore electacy and image-reasoning in this way. Next up, the MEmeorial! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqqN3RM_L8
Here's a video I've made in Adobe Premiere Pro that outlines issues surrounding digital doxa, fake news, and post-truth rhetoric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie5HdvUJz1M
I spent Saturday writing and working with the Seven Valleys Writing Project and its members at Writing Matters V. This year's theme, Creating a Culture of Writers, was particularly attractive to me as I continue to pursue a career working within English and Writing departments within academia, and obviously as I prepare and construct pedagogies … Continue reading Writing Matters V (2018)- “Writing With Mirrors”
Hacking, rhetoric and writing share unique histories that have overlapped a number of times throughout the history of American academia, as I've written about here. This semester, one of my Writing Studies II courses (a standard 2nd-term first year-composition iteration) tackles hacking and its relationship to writing, venturing a course theme I'm excited to call … Continue reading Hacking Composition
