Comments on: Is There a Desert or a Garden Underneath the Kudzu of Nuance? https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/08/31/is-there-a-desert-or-a-garden-underneath-the-kudzu-of-nuance/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Chris London https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/08/31/is-there-a-desert-or-a-garden-underneath-the-kudzu-of-nuance/comment-page-1/#comment-72965 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:04:29 +0000 https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=2875#comment-72965 As it happened I came on that at lunch yesterday and it was perfect for the intro session to my masters methods class later that evening. It was a good way to introduce abstraction, and to question the text book that implied that theory is only good if it predicts and generalizes. I urged them to simply take an idea and run with it, rather than constantly self editing worried that they haven’t demonstrated enough different ideas, or worse, trying to write “academically.”

But I also saw it as part of a continuing step back from pomo. The lazy, “but you didn’t cover X” or “you’re just doing Y” instead of actually engaging with the substance of what the person her/himself is trying to say.

And it went very well with this cartoon, particularly box 2, in my slides

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