Wysocki, Anne F. "awaywithwords: On the possibilities in unavailable designs." Computers and Composition, vol. 22, 2005, pp. 55-62. Summary: Constraints in our use of communication materials are often socially and historically produced; to ask after the constraints as we teach or compose can help us understand how material choices in producing communications articulate to social … Continue reading Wysocki, Anne F. “awaywithwords: On the possibilities in unavailable designs.”
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Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. (2)
Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Keywords: creativity, teaching, drawing, writing, image, attention, brain, state of mind Quotations: [Ivan Brunetti] there are things all of us can draw in a way that is recognizable ... All of these things show up without effort--they are already in us (104). … Continue reading Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. (2)
George, Diana. “From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing.”
George, Diana. "From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing." College Composition and Communication, vol. 54, no. 1, Sept. 2002, pp. 11-39. Summary: "In an attempt to bring composition studies into a more thoroughgoing discussion of the place of visual literacy in the writing classroom, I argue that throughout the history of … Continue reading George, Diana. “From Analysis to Design: Visual Communication in the Teaching of Writing.”
Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. (1)
Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. Summary: In this collage/course reflection/thought collection, Barry shares her experience as artist-in-residence at UW-Madison. To summarize is difficult. Barry captures force and essence in her compilation of syllabi, student work, and personal musings. The artwork is as compelling as the text as she draws … Continue reading Barry, Lynda. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor. (1)
Nietzche. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Nietzche, Friedrich. "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense." The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present, edited by Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, Boston & New York, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001, pp. 1171-79. To remember: language is rhetoric (1169). The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over … Continue reading Nietzche. On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Massumi, Brian. The Autonomy of Affect, I
Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2002. 23-28. Print. To remember: the primacy of the affective is marked by a gap between content and effect (24) content[:] its indexing to conventional meanings in an inter-subjective context ... determinate qualities (24) effect[:] the strength or duration of image ... its intensity … Continue reading Massumi, Brian. The Autonomy of Affect, I
Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations, translated by Harry Zohn, 217-251. New York: Schocken Book, 1968. To remember: "Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it … Continue reading Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
the mourning post as punctum
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York, Hill and Wang, 2010. thumbing through Camera Lucida (Barthes) in preparation for a project about mourning on social media. sensed possibilities: [Studium refers to experiencing an] average affect, almost from certain training ... studium ... which means a kind of general enthusiastic commitment, of course, but without … Continue reading the mourning post as punctum
{kin}aesthetic composure 