Although I have been seriously slacking, the past few days have seen some hardcore catching up…or at least trying to, which leads me to this post. In the last week, I have read the second half of Jean-Franscois Lyotard’s Just Gaming, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and the first half of an anthology called PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality, edited by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel. And several hundred pages later I am left with far more questions then I found answers, but one inquiry that stands out: Is individual, creative thought even a possibility? Read the rest of this entry »
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My former blog, From Podium to Pedestal, now has relocated, been renamed, re-conceived and reinvented. I will be the first to admit that in my process of learning more about websites, blogging and design, I wanted to get started writing before giving myself a bunch of customization options with vocabulary I didn’t understand enough of to even piece together the definitions found through Google searches. Now that I have a web developer friend, who is taking time out of his busy schedule to tutor me on such things, I have jumped in, bought a domain name, and started my blog up so that it can actually be what I envisioned from the beginning. There is more to come, no doubt about it, but as the growth continues, welcome to our new home! Check back regularly for more updates on the blog itself, as well as a whole host of new posts.
For those who are not familiar with the reference that inspired the name Comic Corrective, there will be an entire post devoted to the man who is my bread and butter in the world of rhetorical theory, Kenneth Burke. While I get that finished, though, spread the word; tell your friends, enemies, new acquaintances, teachers, students, relatives…that Comic Corrective is new, constantly improving, and finally home.
This summer vacation thus fare has been jam packed with all things that will completely destroy my ability to focus and get work done for my classes or honors thesis. I don’t have to go into full details, hopefully, for the sake of those friends who accompanied me on my age-appropriate indiscretions. Just think, summer after your sophomore year of college…enough said. As school rushes ever closer, though, I realize that I need to start retraining myself. I need to be reading rhetorical theory that interests me, before I only have time for that which was assigned. I need to be writing about what I’m reading and thinking, rather than putting it off with the excuse that I can go back to the book and work on that when I get back to school. We all know that when you read something the second time you rarely have the same train of though that it inspired the first time…and really, whose going to go back to the book they picked up in July during the Hell of papers, new classes, professors and students and adjusting to new suite-mates that is August ans September? Because no matter how much I think I will, it just won’t happen.