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Monthly Archives: September 2011

… everyone dreams of domination …

Thursday, September 22, 2011

There are local knowledges everywhere, yet academic ego perpetually wishes to assert the primacy of its discipline and the ignorance of all the other disciplines. Philosophers wish to claim that we’re the true “shephards”! Ours is the master-discipline of every other practice. Rhetoricians point out that everything involves an argument and rhetoric and therefore they’re [...]

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… a commentary can, at best …

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

We have to be serious about the contention that a Platonic dialogue, being indeed an “imitation of Socrates,” actually continues Socrates’ work. [...] There is immediate plausibility in it. And yet its consequences are hardly ever accepted. These are that we, the readers, are being implicitly questioned and examined, that we have to weigh Socrates’ [...]

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In Lieu of the Usual

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

I sat down to write a rather long essay on The Politics of Intellectuals: Esotericism or Demagoguery? and, instead, found myself entirely caught up in a slew of wonderful and response-demanding posts from my friends. I spent my whole rhetorical capital commenting on them, and now I find myself all out of words and ready [...]

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a bit more on designing a wordpress theme from scratch

Monday, September 19, 2011

Though I only posted the tale of my exploit just last night, I’ve already received a number of emails from people requesting information about how they can design wordpress themes from scratch for themselves as well. Well, doing so presumes a fair amount of css, php, and basic html knowledge — if, that is, you [...]

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On What I Did This Weekend: Or, Designing a WordPress Theme from Scratch

Sunday, September 18, 2011

This weekend I spent approximately 20 hours designing a WordPress theme from scratch. I’d never done that before. For four years I’ve used WordPress, in a variety of guises, under a variety of names, and for a variety of purposes. Our relationship has been characterized by the make-over. Almost every month I would begin to [...]

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… now you know …

Friday, September 16, 2011

Once there are no more Afghans left who want us gone, then we can leave.  For those of you who have been cynically claiming that this war has no discernible purpose other than the generalized benefits of Endless War for political officials and the Security State industry, now you know. From: Glenn Greenwald.

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On Fearing Visibility

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

At Inside Higher Ed, we learn that a student body president at the University of Charleston was nearly impeached after he tweeted some things that were offensive to other students. We are informed that after he narrowly escaped the consequences of his words he offered the advice that one should never post anything on the [...]

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