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drum machine:: On Quality of Thought
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Monday, November 12, 2007. On Quality of Thought. This weekend I presented at MMLA in Cleveland. The panel was great: four Rhet/Compers trying to press on some of the (new? I’m trying to develop a certain quality of mind! What the hell does that mean? To me it sounds like a sketchy way to deny tenure to people you don't like or whose research you don't like. November 13, 2007 at 10:52 AM. Glad you had a good experience presenting. Are you presenting at MLA?
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marginalia gratae: A Beautiful Mind
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Friday, October 2, 2009. On June 11, 2008, my grandmother went to the hospital for a routine, preventative procedure, during which she sustained significant, unexpected trauma. That singular event changed not only her entire state of existence, but it altered our family dynamic and, from all accounts, reframed and redefined both ‘the personal’ and ‘the professional’ for the doctor who performed the procedure. While I was talking with my mom last night, she explained that the subject of nearly all these c...
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marginalia gratae: May 2009
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Saturday, May 30, 2009. What I Have to Show . . . Should have based my study on Ralph Ellison. Or maybe I just should have stayed in medicine . . . It’s a word- have you heard? Though I really kinda dig the theory. Foucault and Derrida can make me weary. Writer’s block, watch the clock,. Read a little more of Locke. Who knew it could inspire such self-loathing? Oh, suck it up and quit your damn bemoaning.). It’s the path that I chose,. Now I’m off to compose . . . Thursday, May 21, 2009. Still, some of t...
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drum machine:: September 2008
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Thursday, September 25, 2008. What's So Critical About Music? A very wise writing professor once told me, "Its easy. Just write the stuff you'd want to read." Right, eas. Y Similarly, as a teacher, I find myself often trying to shape courses that I'd want to take. A lot more difficult than one would imagine. And yet Byron Hawk makes it look easy. This course. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. The Practice of Everyday Theory.
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drum machine:: June 2007
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Saturday, June 23, 2007. Things I've learned in the last two weeks. 1) Doctors and nurses who work in Neonatal Intensive Care Units are the most patient people scurrying about this mortal coil. 2) Grandmas won't let Daddies hold their babies. Daddies must pry them from Grandma's kung-fu grip. 3) Establishing a schedule to see your kid in the hospital is simultaneously comforting and infuriating. 4) When doctors say call anytime, they mean it.
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drum machine:: March 2007
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Tuesday, March 27, 2007. The Sound of New York. There were, of course, several cool things about Cs—meeting old friends and making new ones, seeing some cool panels, actually feeling surprised that people came to ours—but the following was actually the coolest…. But that’s not actually what I was getting at. Well, apparently we build filing cabinets (surrounded by a block of park) to stack 170,000 apartments (per building! Tuesday, March 13, 2007. That's the g...
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drum machine:: June 2008
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm an Assistant Professor of English and Director of Composition at Manhattan College in NYC. My research interests are at the intersection of writing, music, and rhetoric and the ways in which those acts inform how we imagine Composition. I'm also the editor of a literary magazine, The Avery Anthology, which publishes fiction by emerging and established writers twice a year. View my complete profile.
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drum machine:: Pop Goes Philosophy
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On Rhetoric, Composing, Music, and Teaching. Thursday, March 13, 2008. So Open Court Press has a "Philosophy and Pop Culture Series" that takes various parts of pop culture (hip-hop, The Simpsons, The Matrix, etc.) and recruits writers to write in an accessible way about how that part of pop culture speaks to philosophical issues. They have an upcoming Radiohead and Philosophy. Volume coming up and I'm very proud to say that I'll be included in it! Finally, years of listening to Radiohead pays off. ;).
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marginalia gratae: An experiment
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009. Bear with me for a moment, folks: I've grown bored with myself. Bored with my writing, which has grown ever more academic and dense. Bored with my thinking, which feels hopelessly unremarkable. Bored with my scholarship, even as it is becoming more relevant and interesting. Boo-frickin'-hoo. So this morning I had a thought. I scribbled a couple lines of verse. Light frost at morning's light,. The delicious scent of autumn's breath. Brings promise and renewal. Renee Peterson...
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