Week 4: Ways of Knowing

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The production of knowledge is the academy’s very reason for being, and if we cling to an outdated system for establishing and measuring authority while the nature of authority is shifting around us, we run the risk of becoming increasingly irrelevant to contemporary culture’s dominant ways of knowing.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence, pg. 17

In class

Assignments

Readings:

Exploration:

Writing:

  • Write a 1-2 page summary of the key concepts proposed in the readings. Due on Tuesday, September 14 in Google Classroom.
  • Have a conversation in Google Classroom about what editorial decisions you would make if you were to publish some of the poems by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, or William Blake. Make an original contribution and respond to at least two classmates before class on Thursday, September 16.

Next week class meets in the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection (5th floor of the Belk Library).

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By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.