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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 [...]

In the context of our course the tag “listening event” is appropriate for Neimeyer’s webcasts.
What we tend to label as the “problematic” elements of our experience with Neimeyer’s webcasts – the disembodied voice, etc. – made, I think, the text incredibly rich, although in ways that wouldn’t meet a standard “distance learning” criteria. I [...]

As some colleagues have commented, this listening event – the webcast lecture – invites some difficulty. We can’t see Neimeyer or the class. The peak of such difficulty might be in last third/quarter of the second lecture when the class screens films and as listeners to the webcasts we are (at least) doubly removed – [...]