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Horner – Redefining Work and Value for WPA

Posted by justin on March 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Horner, Bruce. “Redefining Work and Value for Writing Program Administration.” JAC 27.1‐2 (2007): 163‐184. Horner states early on that he will be considering the “problematic” ways that composition is defined and valued in WPA discourse as well as in the discourse of “unionism” that responds to the WPA discourse. H. believes that the claims WPA discourse makes for its value actually hurt WPA and composition. H. argues... Read More

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Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Posted by justin on October 8, 2010 · 1 Comment

Hawk – A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity Hawk claims that compositionists consider the term vitalism as an “anything goes” approach to writing and thinking, as an “ahistorical category that subsumes multiple divergent practices, and as an assumed negative counterpart to preferred rhetorical practices that establishes a binary between rhetoric and poetics” (3). ... Read More

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GEO755 – Robbins, Peet & Watts

Posted by justin on January 23, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Robbins – Political Ecology Chapters 1 – 4 Chapter One: The Hatchet and the Seed This chapter serves as a general introduction to the field of political ecology. Recognizing that the nature-society divide is a Romantic mythologization of the West, the chapter introduced ontology as a complex web of environmental linkages between humans and the environment (5). The difference between political and apolitical ecology... Read More

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music

New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]