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12/01/2005 Archived Entry: "The habitual"

The Habitual
To follow up on Robert's comment (The Curriculum of Things), from Perec's "Approaches to What?"

To question the habitual. But that's just it, we're habituated to it. We don't question it, it doesn't question us . . . to question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. . . question your tea spoons. . . it matters little to me that these questions should be fragmentary, barely indicative of a method."

A list, then, of things I could question, things which have ceased to forever astonish me, yet posed as a method in a preliminary course in personal geography (map making):

  • Billboards at Eight Mile and Woodward
  • Empty store fronts
  • Literacy
  • The Bodum coffee maker
  • A flyer handed to me in the elevator the night of November 30, 2005
  • Cell phone ads in the mail
  • Turtl
  • Students who come to class unprepared
  • A book on place I can't get through (read, stop, read, stop)
  • Web interfaces
  • The refrain “multimodal” (or, at times, “digital”)
  • Ethnography
  • Lists of things posted as blog entries

    Replies: 3 comments

    Students who come to class unprepared. . .

    but who show up at your office wanting to do extra work to bring up their grade.

    Posted by joanna @ 12/03/2005 01:12 PM EST


    Students who come to class unprepared

    This is the one I am thinking of now.

    What a co-inky-dink. It's the one I've been thinking about today, too. "Does anyone remember what we talked about last week? Anyone? For the love of god...ANYONE???"

    Posted by jelly roll @ 12/01/2005 08:01 PM EST

    Students who come to class unprepared

    This is the one I am thinking of now.

    Posted by cbd @ 12/01/2005 06:41 PM EST

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