day two

I was surprisingly productive today. I referred back to my chart on Lefebvre’s spatial triad:
1.    Spatial Practice (Perceived Space)
a.    Seemingly rooted in materialism
b.    Embodies daily and urban realities
c.    The route that the person takes to work
d.    The use of the person’s hands and the function of the organs
e.    Not logically conceived or intellectually worked out
2.    [...]

exams

Well, now that CCCC is over, it’s time to tackle the exams…which officially start tomorrow. Our department’s procedure is pretty different as I think I’ve written before. After reading for about 3 semesters or so for 3 different reading lists on 3 different fields or subfields, you receive 3 different questions and write 3 papers. [...]

literacy definitions

*this post will be continually edited with each book read to compile a sort of “greatest hits”*
Literacy Event
“Any occasion in which a piece of writing is integral to the nature of the participants’ interactions and their interpretative processes’” (Heath 1982).
Literacy Event vs Literacy Practices
“Literacy events are the particular activities in which literacy has a role: [...]

Jeri Pollock’s Can Literacy Be Environmental?

I came across this essay just recently (from the Dec. 2004 English Teaching journal) and I think it has a number of good points. However, I am caught in a form of critique (which I attribute to the voices of some writing program administrators out there) which questions any themed-composition classroom. On one hand I [...]

Arundhati Roy: An Ordinary Person’s Part 2

At the end of her collection of essays on empire, she writes:
“We have allowed nonviolent resistance to atrophy into feel-good political theater, which at its most successful is a photo opportunity for the media, and at its least successful is simply ignored.
We need to look up and urgently discuss strategies of resistance, wage real battles, [...]

Arundhati Roy: An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire

I’ve just finished reading An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire, which was perfect for the 13 hour drive from sarasota, fl.
The book is a collection of Roy’s essays–mostly from 2003/2004.
Here are excerpts that I’ve divided into some of my favorite topics:
On Political Language
“Empire is on the move, and Democracy is its sly new war cry. [...]

Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

a summary from somewhere that i forgot to properly annotate: “Goffman explores the details of individual identity, group relations, the impact of environment, and the movement and interactive meaning of information. His perspective, though limited in scope, provides new insight into the nature of social interaction and the psychology of the individual.”
the purpose:
“I assume that [...]