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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 [...]

Beginnings:
Some anxiety. This blog space represents potentially the most public venue for my writing I’ve ever had. I fully hope to maybe actually become the writer I’ve always “wanted”/avoided to be/being in the context of this space – which really for me means developing a writing practice of any kind, as I’ve always been ruled [...]

I work in composition. Strands of this work: graduate study in rhet/comp at Cal State, San Bernardino and teaching composition courses at Crafton Hills College and Chaffey College. This space has been prompted by a course I’m currently taking – Jacqueline Rhodes’s ENG 658 ‘Computers and Composition’ – so the work of this site will [...]