The Republic, oh dear

Led astray by poetry—even good men will be led astray by the fantastic, by the horrific, led to emulate the characters, cry in public, sleep with their mothers, be violent toward kin groups.

Professor quote of the day

"And they were there, hobnobbing with all those...nobs." Sorin Matei, COM 632

Online Interaction

Click the title to go to the online interaction interactiony page--where this semester's class notes can be found.

We have a hard time with the concept of “cyberspace” without imagining or superimposing a metaphor of “real” physical space. We call it “the pub” “thegetaway”, we write on TheWall, we have a faceBOOK. It is a topoi—a place from which to speak set with conventions and expectations. In Burke's terms, we need a ground.