public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags identity & rhetoric

December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

Lateral Thinking Problems - Preconceptions

The site poses problems in lateral or logical thinking, from easy to hard, with both hints and answers. Great party conversation and something kids will like.

November 2006

group hug // anonymous online confessions

by 9 others
like postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.

Conversations with Dina

post on how students did visual ethnography using Flickr and the tags people put there

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

Zensufi Park

Zen/sufi stories help those with writer's block or pinned down to traditional narrative arcs

October 2006

vitia

well written, much about pedagogy and digital culture, blogging

September 2006

One sentence that relates something true

good for autobiographers, bloggers, screenwriters--folks who want to write pithy impactful accounts of their and others experiences.

June 2006