Philology as tool

An anti-textbook: Re-presencing culture and communication

This trial post is a detailed introduction to the anti-textbook I wrote entitled American Currents: Re-presencing culture and communication in a postdigital age.

American currents: Anti-textbook update

Very brief, general outline.

Terministic screens

This post explores the “terministic screen”, which directs attention to certain types of perceptions that inform symbolic action. If it is true that “All terminologies must implicitly or explicitly embody choices between the principles of continuity and the principles of discontinuity”, might there be situations where they are transcended?

Pedagogy of extraneity

The opportunities afforded by technology do not simplify the complexities of learning but instead require “greater” maturity and support for learning (Beaty et al. 2002).