Archive for the category “critique”

October 19th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Objects of Critique

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  • How might a “thing” gather moments of concern?
  • How can this gathering or circulation turn into writing?

Greil Marcus: Dead Elvis.

E.B. White. Here is New  York.

Images, ideas, places, things, people, moments, all travel. They circulate. One response: write with the metaphoric image, not against it.

February 29th, 2008 at 11:05 am

Critical Positions

Traditionally: making claims.

Critically thinking.

Berlin: role of ideology

Latour: thing vs object

Vitanza: a rhetorical critical attitude that works by marginalia and destabilizes

How do they differ, complement, challenge how we usually teach/think of critical thinking/writing?