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  “Thanks to the computer, a notable idealistic dimension has been added to what would otherwise be a pretty sorry show” (19).  

There is nothing un/divisioned in our world.  When we listen to music, it enters one ear and leaves through the other.  when we eat, we fill our mouths, and...(unfil it).  When we sit, we need to stand.  Stand, sit.  When we greet, we say goodbye.  We live and die.  Swim, don't swim.  Sleep, wake.  We have two eyes, ears, arms, legs, hands, feet, nipples, nostrils, and lots of fingers and toes.  Our neighborhoods are constructed in division.  Skyscrapers placed across the other.  Double-laned traffic.  Four course meals.    

This post has nothing to do with fiction (sorry JB), but in way, identification forces us to be objective.  It naturalizes us through an INS immigration.  Systematically stamping our passports.  ONce we get that visa, we are allowed to enter. But seriously...

  Hello gang, underneath is my Molson Canadian.  It ends abruptly so I apologize.  My paper will be very brief and basic, but that is because I am also doing a media project which complements the paper.  So I figure I can compensate for the shortage of words with the electracy of my media presentation.  By the way, the media project is in works and I don't really want to share it quite yet.  Thanks for reading.  

Devising an Image: Burke’s Identification as Pedagogy  

A note of clarification:  I have already written several blog posts discussing the clarification of the project.  They were written last week and on time.  In fact, you will find one of them in the previous page of this website.  However, through dialoguing with several of my peers, I have now created a new blog for clarifying my research project.  Let me know if you have any suggestions.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

Title Information: 

Johnson, Steven.  Where Good Ideas Come From:  The Natural History of Innovation.  New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2010.  326 pages.  ISBN: 978-1-59448-771-2.  $14.33.

Summary:

REEF, CITY, WEB

-Innovations have similar patterns and properties in all fields of thought.  If we learn to embrace them, then we will become far more susceptible and capable of innovative creativity.

Burke's dramatism is about studying the nature of ambiguity.  Trying to understand motives for actions is difficult.

For my response this week, I wish to ponder upon Burke's essay Twelve Propositions.  The idea of identity intrigues me greatly because (I argue, anyway) it is directly linked to memory.  I had recently finished reading Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants and was intrigued by how much identity thrive on autonomy; it wants to be free.  Our machines want what we want, an identity, something to call us our own.

To illustrate arguments as a parlour seems simple, but effective.  I agree with Burke in thinking that parlors are ongoing arguements and that when one enters a conversation, it takes too long and too much time to be up-to-date.  But is that not important to a scholars, in particular, articles?  In a sense (and I apologize if I am extremely wrong) what burke is kind of implying is that literature reviews take too long for us to enter and make a claim for ourselves.  In a sense, that could happen while we are trying to understand an argument rather than not.