the entirety of your weight crashes down beside me wrestling affection from the glances I didn’t want to be touched. so you sent me miniature whispers wrapped in sparkly asterisks they greeted me where i had f a l l e n . blameless ash feathering my fractal exterior: absent observations extracted from what never… Continue reading

Much of our practice of tutoring, as tutors, comes down to the negotiation of identities. Every and each one of us are meeting in a tutoring conference over the practice of writing. We work together, tutor and student, over a specific composition, the professor’s requirements (or lack thereof), the institutional demands of academic writing style,… Continue reading

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow mountaineers.” ~ Muir Are they full… Continue reading

Thinking cyborg, posthumanism, and other assorted connective ideologies elaborating on how we are wetwared with technology is no easy venture at the moment, but I’m going to try. My knowledge of this topic all started when I read Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto.” I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy and your eyes in… Continue reading

Chapter 4 Notes: “Tout autre est Tout autre” Definitions: Shibboleth- a test word; password; or “a secret formula that can only be uttered in a certain way in a certain language” (88). Dictum- a formal statement; judge’s opinion that is not a legal precedent. Tautology- needless repetition of an idea in a different word or… Continue reading

“Whom to Give to (Knowing Not to Know)” begins with Derrida establishing the notion of the mysterium tremendum. This relates the way that our bodies react to mystery; mystery here is playing off the unknown: in the moments of our uncertainty, our body reacts to the mystery—what we do not know is coming—in the unconscious… Continue reading

~~I’m posting my blackboard post for class below to show in what ways a teacher of discourse and rhetoric can begin to implement more critical pedagogy in the classroom or tutoring session~~ What are we doing when we work with language? I ask this of myself as a tutor, an educator, a human being. I… Continue reading

Why polemic? Why now? It seems that I’ve been belaboring my thesis proposal for a week now. It isn’t because I don’t know what to write. Nah. That sucker is as good as written. My problem is that I have to write the proposal and have it passed by the graduate committee first, which stipulates… Continue reading

what goes with me everywhere concedes me not to move— my barely breathing heart here i am: embroiled in a take and give of suffocating layers acetaminophen vials   tear-battered eyelashes   collapsing into grasp of an “i’ll let go never.”   falls of risen heat his chest shudders i run a gentle fingertip under… Continue reading