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Coda: Rickert’s Wonderful World of Oz Meets Pocahontas

Posted on April 27, 2014 by in actants, Ambient Rhetoric, Aristotle, attunement, boundaries, Earthrise, ecology, ecosystem, ENGL 894, Eno, Foucault, FrankenTheory, Gibson, Heidegger, Latour, MOOCs, network, Network Theory, Plato, Pocahontas, Reading Notes, rhetoric, rhizome, Rickert, subject object, technology, theory, things vs. objects, transformative, worldview

First, an aside: I couldn’t stop myself from thinking of this scene from The Wizard of Oz in an entirely new way. While it’s clearly made with the human worldview of home in mind, I began to think of the … Continue reading →

“Play Ball!” MindMap Reframed

Posted on April 24, 2014 by in Actors, agency, applications, baseball, borders, boundaries, communication, concepts, Connections, ecologies, ENGL 894, knowledge, Mindmap, networks, nodes, operationalizing, theory

http://popplet.com/app/#/1571354 So, I puzzled over how to reconceptualize a mindmap 15 weeks in the making using concepts, rather than components. I reviewed our class syllabus for footholds, pondered my case study foci, watched a little ESPN on a break, checked … Continue reading →

MindMap: Week 14

Posted on April 21, 2014 by in agency, boundaries, Foucault, hypertext, Mindmap, Object of Study

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I actually got confused and thought we were supposed to start revising our Mindmaps last week. So, I started re-envisioning it based on the Theory Tree my group did–thinking about the connections chronologically and by topic. It wasn’t going well. My Mindmap was big and hard to see/follow. There were too many nodes! Then I looked at the schedule again, realized I was wrong, and gave up.

This week, however, I had a little more energy and vision in my remapping. One of the stand-out moments in class for me was when Shelley explained that most new media scholars prefer Actor Network Theory because it allows for non-human objects to serve as actors or mediators. So, I decided to begin my remapped Mindmap by dividing the theories according to those that account only for human agency and those that account for non-human agency.

Off to the side in blue are the nodes that I need to revisit and add back in. Some I didn’t understand well enough to think about agency (Foucault) and some I just don’t remember as well. I plan to add them back in next week and start to think about other concepts that will be important to my OoS as well, such as boundaries, hierarchies, and complexity.

Case Study 2: AT + GT + MOOCs = Alphabet Soup

Posted on March 23, 2014 by in activity theory, Bazerman, boundaries, Case Studies, Case Study 2, composition, ENGL 894, Genre Theory, Miller, MOOC, networks, nodes, Pedagogy, Spinuzzi

Introduction: In my first case study, I examined the Composition MOOC from the lens of structural theory, which provided a foundation upon which to build this second layer of analysis. There are a number of scholarly discussions concerning the technological … Continue reading →

Hypertext Theory & ANTS

Posted on February 25, 2014 by in activity nodes, ANT, borders, boundaries, contradictions, ENGL 894, hypertext, Johnson-Eilola, Joyce, Latour, nostalgia, postmodernism, Reading Notes, remapping

“A structure is defined by what escapes it.”  Brian Massumi, as qtd. in Johnson-Eilola 175 A colleague of mine (a fellow composition instructor who has a fondness for old typewriters — as do I) posted the following video link to … Continue reading →