this is an example of a post that i think picks up on a (loose) thread from rebecca's post but doesn't really fit into our categories.  i put 'disagree' because i'm disagreeing with rebecca's idea that her post fits 'expand' best, whereas i think it fits 'complexify' - in my view, you're really taking those ideas from the 'loose threads' post and making them significantly more layered and complicated...  but 'disagree' doesn't work that well here, and i'm wondering whether we want another category that's something like, 'addressing one question' or 'picking up on one point'...

Rebecca says she's "thinking about my definition of meaning, and if I could impart that meaning on others." Her musings put me in mind of an essay Jody and I might just risk asking our first-semester freshman to read for our ESem, Changing Our Story, this fall. It's Bruno Latour, Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene. New Literary History 45, 1 (Winter 2014): 1-18. Latour says (in part--he also says a lot of other things!), "Meaning is a

Can you explain this a little more? "progress" and "in place" seem contradictory...how can it be "progress" to be "in place"? or to recognize that you are??

I'd hardly call these thoughts "dregs"--more like something "arising," lifting off from, up from...thanks for all your thinking!
I especialy love your dad's definition of college--maybe BMC could use that instead the current line-up?

Rebecca asked, 'would others have characterized this post as an "expand" post? I considered "complexify," but it didn't sit quite right with me.'I don't understand the difference between "expand" and "complexify," and think that if you're not clear which one to use, then the boundaries between them are too muddy...I propose getting rid of one of them (though I'm not sure which one...um..probably "expand"....)

THIS one, though, should be "related" as "clarify"--another category I think we need to add here!

I was captivated by the first clip's use of the word "cultural critics." Who isn't a cultural critic? Coming from a social science background, this terminology seems to have a negative connotation (cultural relativism, not ethnocentrism), but we are wired to evaluate and compare, whether by human nature or by the American Ideal. That's what the social sciences do; appraise, relate, etc.

juxtaposing his essay with one by Chandra Mohanty, Under Western Eyes Revisited...

now i'm testing out the possibility of disagreeing with myself and others..