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Some emergences between Buchanan’s “Rhetoric, Humanism, and Design” and my initial Arcade idea…
Indeterminacy
My Arcade Possibility:

Writing Indeterminacy: John Cage(‘s)/Composition, (My) Pedagogy, and (Occupied) Space
In his (4Cs ‘08) presentation, You Want Me To Teach What?, David Sheridan (MSU) called for “an opening up for critical reflection…at least four distinct areas of” multimodal composition/rhetoric. Two of these (maybe [...]

Here’s a link to a revised version of the “Literacy Essay”

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When I sat down to read through the emerging 658 posts this week, Rogoff’s notion of “writing with” rumbled around my head. I think the blog space potentially lends itself to “writing with,” so I’ll attempt to take up some form of it here (although, admittedly not entirely in the form Rogoff [...]

Here is another “cover” of Cage’s 4′33″
Instruments: KEYWORDS (pulled randomly from Cynthia Selfe’s “Toward New Media Texts”); listener’s available sound/space; KEYWORD/tag generated YouTube offerings
This performance hopes to (begin to) speculate on what Cage’s “minimal compositional frame” makes possible (and perhaps consequently what the concept of “minimal compositional frame(s)” in connection with digital media might make [...]

Opening Shot:

(pulled from Liz Kotz’s Word to Be Looked At. No permission)
This post will attempt to both respond to recent reading and to make an initial (vague/tentative) proposal for a larger project. The project has two tentative names at this moment: “Writing Indeterminacy” or “John Cage and English Composition.” I imagine “Writing Indeterminacy” to [...]