tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146113.post7412000781938500624..comments2023-11-28T10:33:28.774-05:00Comments on Blog With A Dog: chew on this...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146113.post-48358873308560661322007-11-28T11:27:00.000-05:002007-11-28T11:27:00.000-05:00i've not gotten to that passage yet (am also readi...i've not gotten to that passage yet (am also reading PoTV but still vibing out w/ the discrete "The Autonomy of Affect," because it is. just. so. rich).<BR/><BR/>so i'm grateful to have moved on over to your blog to find this passage . . . perfect. perfection. i'm all about it. this digressive, wandering, ambiguous, ambivalent . . . uncertain writing that is okay (if not often superior to polished prose) in itself.<BR/><BR/>how can Massumi say so perfectly what i sense/believe/argue for so clumsily? (damn it!). it's breathtaking, like reading Rumi or Rilke . . . <BR/><BR/>and it's PERFECT for your civic rhetoric affect inquiry. sounds like a fabulous project. and it's really really important. i was having a chat w/ a student yesterday about how certain rhetorics (i.e., "not me. i'm no homophobe") compel us to take on a position w/ which we can't fully identify, and so we miss out on a more sophisticated critical stance because we bypass the affective, the investigative search to uncover how we actually register, say, race issues or issues of sexuality (my student had been struggling w/ his paper on why gay PDA bothers him so much; he had all but stopped coming to class because he was ashamed of his draft . . . said shame representing, as i told him, a moment for critical reflection that might help him to move on, at least w/ the writing). but so it's that digressive, wandering, ambiguously positioned writing that i wanted him to take on, sort of (maybe) what Massumi is after. <BR/><BR/>as teachers, it's easy to want to bypass it in the name of getting to the shiny end. but that's not my comp :)bonnie lenore kyburzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04856781539848156298noreply@blogger.com