Stuff and Fluff
Exhibit A: The Alphabet that Thinks
Exhibit B: California Law Code on Not Touching Trees
Every person who within the State of California willfully or negligently cuts, destroys, mutilates, or removes any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, or portion of any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, growing upon state or country highway rights-of-way, or who removes leaf mold thereon; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to apply to any employee of the state or of any political subdivision thereof engaged in work upon any state, county or public road or highway while performing such work under the supervision of the state or of any political subdivision thereof, and every person who willfully or negligently cuts, destroys, mutilates, or removes any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, or portion of any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, growing upon public land or upon land not his own, or leaf mold on the surface of public land, or upon land not his own, without a written permit from the owner of the land signed by such owner or his authorized agent, and every person who knowingly sells, offers, or exposes for sale, or transports for sale, any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, or portion of any tree or shrub, or fern or herb or bulb or cactus or flower, or huckleberry or redwood greens, or huckleberry or redwood greens, or leaf mold, so cut or removed from state or country highway rights-of-way, or removed from public land or from land not owned by the person who cut or removed the same without written permit from the owner of the land, signed by such owner or his authorized agent, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than six months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Exhibit C: Code Presented in "Thinking Alphabet"
Martin Heidegger argued that typewriters destroyed handwriting, and Plato argued that writing destroyed speech. But Lanham argues that digital expression renovates speech in writing. It invigorates writing. It makes writing more like speech.
Exhibit D: The Style/Substance Matrix
Exhibit E: The (False?) "Assumptions" about Higher Education
1. The Ideal Education is Face-to-Face, One-to-One
No. Blogs have disproved that.
2. Higher Ed., in its ideal form, is performed sequestered from time and space.
But virtual ed. allows us to flow between both. Besides, when we're in college, we crave for real-world experience (extra-curricular activities, etc.).
3 & 4: The Tenure System is Good & The Univ. Protects its Faculty from "Outside World"
"A lifetime of protection makes for an eternal childhood."
Professors should be given money according to their popularity (and this happens in virtual ed). Plus, lots of classes makes for tedium. Wouldn't you like for your course to be given online, so there's less of it?
6: University Faculties are animated by a purity of motive different from, and superior to, the world of ordinary human work.
Oh Plz!
Univ's need to wake up and smell the fresh attention-driven roses of the attention economy.
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