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	<description>faults &#124; sins &#124; abuses</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Keynes and Composition</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/02/24/keynes-and-composition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Skidelsky&#8217;s biography of Keynes notes the importance Keynes placed on socially-based &#8220;conventional expectations&#8221; (93, emphasis in original) in the face of pervasive uncertainty, and contrasts those &#8220;conventional expectations&#8221; to the perfect-information wishful thinking of the proponents of the rational expectations hypothesis. Keynes&#8217;s insight was that what makes economics work and fail is adherence to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Authenticity&#8221; as Last Refuge of the Lazy</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/02/20/authenticity-as-last-refuge-of-the-lazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/?p=1091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was intrigued to see two abiding concerns of compositionists rolled into one in the recent controversy over Helene Hegemann&#8217;s plagiarized/remixed novel Axolotl Roadkill. There&#8217;s the usual breast-beating and hair-tearing and garment-rending about these kids today from the usual choristers, but what I thought was interesting was the use of the trope of authenticity in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Digital Maoism&#8221;: Not Much There, Really</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/02/05/digital-maoism-not-much-there-really/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Jaron Lanier&#8217;s 2006 essay on &#8220;Digital Maoism,&#8221; and as I&#8217;d suspected not far into the article, there&#8217;s not much there beyond oversimplifications, weasel words, straw men, and sweeping generalizations. More than anything else, Lanier sounds like a snubbed Ayn Randian railing against the unwashed masses of the internets who don&#8217;t deserve or recognize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Digital Maoism&#8221; for Digital Rhetoricians?</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/29/digital-maoism-for-digital-rhetoricians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/29/digital-maoism-for-digital-rhetoricians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/?p=1087</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading Jaron Lanier&#8217;s 2006 cautionary anti-crowdsourcing manifesto &#8220;Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism,&#8221; and it&#8217;s interesting to look at the way he understands writing. On the one hand, in looking at &#8220;most of the technical or scientific information&#8221; on Wikipedia (I think I&#8217;d qualify that to say &#8220;much&#8221; rather than &#8220;most,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom and Property</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/28/freedom-and-property/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Openness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At Computers and Writing last year, I briefly chatted with John Logie about some of the smart things I&#8217;d recently had the good fortune to hear him say about intellectual property. He made the case in our conversation (as well as in some of his recent presentations) that advocates of openness in intellectual property would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing Down the Problematics of the LTV</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/26/chasing-down-the-problematics-of-the-ltv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/26/chasing-down-the-problematics-of-the-ltv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Composition Theory]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/?p=1082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep finding myself running into the problem of the labor theory of value (LTV) when trying to think about composition as an economic act, to the point where I&#8217;m wondering if its being a problem should serve as an indicator of the possible richness of the questions it raises. So on the one hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Teleology of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/19/the-teleology-of-capitalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 03:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does capitalism have a particular teleology? If those who believe strongly in the virtues of unfettered free-market capitalism were to think teleologically, what ideal end-state would they imagine, and for whom?
Popular critiques of vulgar or orthodox Marxism understand its ideal goal to consist of class struggle leading to socialist revolution followed by a worker&#8217;s utopia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying Attention as an Aggregation Problem</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/12/paying-attention-as-an-aggregation-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last semester, our FYC students read an article by William Deresiewicz that indicted the dangers posed to the focused and individually attentive reflective mind by today&#8217;s digital technologies of multitasking. I&#8217;ve been thinking about that article more lately, both in the way that it intersects with my concerns of the economic valuation of writing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shankar via Lunsford: Spriting Talkuments</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/09/shankar-via-lunsford-spriting-talkuments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2010/01/09/shankar-via-lunsford-spriting-talkuments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On pages 9-10 of Writing Matters, Andrea Lunsford cites a number of terms Tara Shankar invents in her 2005 dissertation, including
the key term spriting. By &#8217;sprite,&#8217; a portmanteau combining speaking and writing, Shankar means speaking that &#8220;yields two technologically supported representations: the speech in audible form, and the speech in visual form. Spriting, therefore, equally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clear Use of Sources</title>
		<link>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2009/10/23/the-clear-use-of-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2009/10/23/the-clear-use-of-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Intellectual Property]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Openness]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/?p=1064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking at a quotation that I don&#8217;t know what to do with: it&#8217;s confusing me. I ask you, reader, to help explain it to me; to help me figure out how the author is using a particular source. Here&#8217;s the quotation, in context, from pages iii-iv of the Preface by Marshall Sahlins to The [...]]]></description>
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