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Friday, November 30, 2012

It Was Kind of Like Teaching | The G Bitch Spot

It Was Kind of Like Teaching | The G Bitch Spot:


It Was Kind of Like Teaching

Thanks, Ali Arnold, Trisha, the students and faculty who came and sorry there was no time for questions.
No one had read the Stanley Fish post I based all this on but, just like in the classroom, I forged ahead anyway.
First, check out what “digital humanities” really means—Michael Mizell-Nelson’s online database projects. Fucking awesome. Fortunately, he did a fantastic job and if only there’d been another hour. Actually, he should’ve had the whole thing.
Since I spent the time, here’s my talk-post, unabridged [I did most but not all of what appears below] if interested:
The pattern of the consonants is the formal vehicle of the substantive argument, the argument that what is asserted to be different is really, if you look closely, the same. That argument is reinforced by the phonological fact that “b” and “p” are almost identical.
The pattern noticed is not the argument, but a method, a “vehicle,” a means and not an end. The end is the