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Comment on a new chapter by erin

erin — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:34:37 +0000

Thank you Jen!

Comment on a new chapter by Jennifer Allen

Jennifer Allen — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:28:10 +0000

You are amazing! Enjoy this chapter of your life!

Comment on media universe by Chiana

Chiana — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:49:22 +0000

Walking in the pesenrce of giants here. Cool thinking all around!

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Comment on why digitize? by and how! « explorations of a geek

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Comment on words mean things by erin

erin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:54:15 +0000

I’m glad you have! I like doing it. More to come, certainly. It’s interesting how once you start looking closer, things appear that you wouldn’t have expected. Both of my word-specific posts so far have ended differently than I would have guessed when I started. And even then, I think there’s so much more to them than I’m able to address in one post. It’s an eye-opener to realize the effects that a single word has on the way we experience things, as well as how much one can learn about a thing just by examining its label.

Comment on words mean things: humanities by erin

erin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:49:39 +0000

I like that distinction. Certainly it speaks nicely to the “etcetera” attached at the end. I know for myself that getting a broad range of academic experiences has been valuable, and in a lot of ways I wish I had been able to go even broader.

I wonder, though, why it’s the Humanities that ends up being the add-on here – study your trade but also study all of these things, too. Maybe it’s a value issue? Knowing a trade leads directly to money in the pocket, where knowing Humanities issues doesn’t necessarily? That opens a whole other can of worms that I thought about getting into with this post, but realized it would have ended up being more of a novella… important questions, though…

Comment on words mean things by Derek

Derek — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:33:03 +0000

I’ve enjoyed seeing this series take shape, Erin. It’s important, for all of the reasons you acknowledge, to allow terms to shift/turn/breathe and to reckon with their valences as they move around. In ENGL516 this semester, students have been writing “deep definition” essays of between 1200-1500 words designed to trace commonplaces through selected scholarship. One purpose this serves is to show us that these supposedly stable terms are articulated differently. And another value in this is in what I increasingly think of as the “concept review.” That is, oftentimes it is not possible to write a traditional lit. review when you are doing new work (or work about which little has been published). The word-focused concept review stands in as a sturdy substitute, I think.