My teaching career started in 1993 in a private school; I taught all four grades of high school English.  Despite my next statement, it really was a good school with talented and dedicated teachers. The “curriculum” I was presented with was textbooks.  That’s what I got–two textbooks, one literature and one grammar, for each level. […]

In discussing reflexivity’s entrance to the cybernetics universe, Hayles refers to it as a “slippery concept.”  To that, I say “exactly”–and not just about reflexivity. The entirety of her subject matter is not easily gripped.  Holding on becomes a dynamic mental process easily pictured as climbing a greased pole or catching water with open hands.  […]