Readings/Loci
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PART ONE: DEVELOPMENT OF A FIELD AS A THIN MEMBRANE

The Thin Membrane between Rhetoric, Composition, and Culture
- Rhetoric and Reality, Berlin

Managements: Thinking/Writing
- Pt. 1: Common Sense Rationalism - Methodical Memory, Crowley

- Pt. 2: Mechanics - "The Rhetoric of Mechanical Correctness," Robert Connors

War, Rhetoric, Words
- Isocrates
- Berlin's (RSA essay)
- ?

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PART TWO:
WORK STORIES (THE WEIGHT)

From Literature to Life
- Burke, Philosophy of Literary Form, etc.

This summer, I'll be attending Duke's summer audio documentary workshop at the Center for Documentary Studies.

From Panel to Gallery: Twelve Digital Writings, One Installation
Session: K.23 on Mar 25, 2006 from 9:30 AM to 10:45

Instead of making a diachronic set of presentations, the 12 panelists will make available a synchronic set, in an art e-gallery format. Some computers will be placed on the "speakers' " tables, while others will be carried and presented. Hence, the presenters and audience will mix as at a gallery opening, speaking of the works among themselves and the "artists." The purpose of the panel is to "show" and "demonstrate" how digital technologies can reshape our views of conferences, presentations (specifically, presenter-audience relationships), and writings.

My article "(Meta)Physical Graffiti: 'Getting Up' as Affective Writing Model" is now out in the latest issue of JAC.

(1) English 421: Documenting Your World

Course Blog

reading list:
Introduction to Documentary
Bill Nichols

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee

The Combination (The Neighborhood Story Project)
Ashley Nelson

Roadstrips: A Graphic Journey Across America
Pete Friedrich

(2) English 200: Critical Theories of Reading, Reading Critical Theories

Nealon and Searles-Giroux. The Theory Toolbox

Rivkin and Ryan.

My article "Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies" is now out in the Fall 2005 issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

Because I got hacked last week, I've had to put up a new site. Hopefully, I'll get all the archives back online soon enough. In the meantime, I plan to have my vita and professional life here within the week.