Next time on . . .
Usually when I leave these posts, half of the topics never materialize. Really, they serve more for my purposes to remember things. Suckaz.
- epistemic machines
- rhetoric=pedagogy. Or the other way ’round
- CBS SEP wrapup
- Lakoff/Turner
- More on Derrida
Ob, btw, the current tag line is from Of Grammatology, if anyone was wondering.
Tentative Sources for "Dictionaries" Project
Now, some tentative sources for . . . calm yourselves . . . the “dictionaries” project.
- Hayakawa, S. I. and Alan R. Hayakawa. 1940. Language in Thought and Action. Fifth edition. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1990.
- McFedries, Paul. Word Spy: The Word Lover’s Guide to Modern Culture. New York: Broadway Books, 2004.
- West, Paul. The Secret Lives of Words. New York: Harcourt, 2000.
- Williams, Raymond. Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. New York: Oxford UP, 1976.
This post is more for archival purposes: If I don’t get a chance to read these in the next few month or so (well, “read” in a very loose sense–skim is more accurate), this way I’ll have a record of the texts I want to check out again.
If anything sticks out as being obsolete or roundly discredited, please let me know.
Plan Man
The plan for the next few weeks, since my reading schedule keeps falling apart. However, since I’ll be done teaching for the summer next week, I should (hopefully) be able to crank out another book or two.
- Finish Derrida, Grammatology. Today/tomorrow–25/26 July.
- Read Lackoff/Turner, More than Cool Reason. Looking in it, it should be easy to knock that out in a week or so. So let’s say 26 July -1 August.
- Read Rice, Rhetoric of Cool. This might over lap with Lackoff/Turner, so let’s say 29 July -5 August.
- Whither thence?
At some point, desk copies will start arriving for the 1020 course next semester–more on that later, as well as some vague ideas for a 1020 syllabus of my own. I should probably get started with the reading for Pruchnic’s seminar too. Note to self: ask Jeff what order readings go in.