The Solution
And, yes, I believe this is THE solution to testing craziness, but first read this USA Today article on Lee County's decision to opt out...
The System of Things
This post is in the style of Don DeLillo's White Noise. ---------- Lesson plans, IEPs, 504s, ESL, LEP. The paperwork never ends. The...
The Spell of Things
There cannot be a sole object that is vibrant matter in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. As Jane Bennet discusses in Vibrant Matter there is a...
I Am the Machine
I am by craft a teacher, specifically a composition professor at the local community college, but before that I taught high school...
The Interior Exterior of Writing
In brief, stating that humans, human thinking, and human culture are wed to the types of machines humans use introduces Stiegler’s theory...
The Interiority of Being, Part II (Posthumanism Week 2)
Two scenes from Blade Runner require further examination. The first only makes sense in relation to the second. After Deckard kills Pris,...
The Interiority of Being
With Blade Runner (1982) we question (again) what it means to be human and what human identity is. Technology has a profound effect on...
Sense and Sensibility (Posthumanism Week 1)
Descartes focuses on human identity as solely existing in the mind, and the rational mind as the sole determinant of what is human. Thus,...