Welcome to our electronic parlor...

Welcome to our English 106 blog for the spring semester. This space will primarily be used to discuss our readings, since we often will not have time to get to the readings in class. Also, no single person can monopolize an electronic conversation (and I am the most likely to fill this role)--hopefully, everyone will get to make a contribution to our conversation.

In addition to your individual research, we will be reading two books this semester: DJ Spooky's Rhythm Science and Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture. The first book we are reading is by far the more difficult and abstract--which makes sense, since our first unit on visual rhetoric stresses the productive possiblities language's inherent ambiguity provides (hopefully the previous sentence will make more sense as the semester goes on). The second book, centering our unit on research and argument, is far more pragmatic and addresses the legal and cultural implications of Spooky's "ambiguous" aesthetic re-mixes.

Every week, two students will be responsible for our "launch" posts--the initial posts on the week's passages. A week's posts must be "up" by noon on Monday. Looking forward to our conversation.