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Car Idling is No Idle Threat

Car Idling is No Idle Threat

It’s winter. It’s cold; the mornings even more so. The wind chills your bones as you trudge out to the car. Your breath smokes inside the cabin. The ignition starts up; you hit the defrost. But, why sit in the frigid car when your home is nice and toasty? So, you leave the car idling to warm up while you wait comfortably inside.

WRONG! A lesson learned by one Michigan man this month– idling your…

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James Berlin spilling some truth

[besmirchthis]

[B]y excluding reading practices that might discover the political unconscious of literary texts that address political matters, English studies has served as a powerful conservative force, all the while insisting on its transcendence of the political. The enforcement of this invidious division of the literary from the non-literary has served to entitle those already entitled and to disempower the disempowered, doing so in the name of the sacred literary text.

James Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures

[continuums]

“I would argue that our colleges, despite inadequacies of the modernist curriculum, are much better equipped to prepare workers for the new job market than they are to prepare citizens for the quotidian cultural conditions of our new economy. In other words, our students are more likely to acquire the abilities and dispositions that will enable them to become successful workers than the abilities and dispositions to make critical sense of this age of image and spectacle, to understand their daily experience in postmodern culture."

James Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies