Derek Mueller

I asked ChatGPT to "Write a bio about professor Derek N. Mueller of Virginia Tech using exactly 90 words," and this is what it returned: Professor Derek N. Mueller of Virginia Tech is an accomplished geoscientist specializing in glaciology and polar environments. With a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences, his extensive research on ice sheet dynamics has garnered international recognition, contributing profoundly to climate change discourse. A dedicated educator, he fosters critical thinking and curiosity in his students. Beyond the classroom, his public outreach efforts bridge the gap between science and society. Dr. Mueller's multifaceted approach, blending research, teaching, and communication, exemplifies his commitment to advancing both scientific knowledge and public awareness of pressing environmental issues.

RIDE Blog Carnival #2 Rewind

Rewind the tape, cup an ear, settle in: RIDE blog carnival #2 mixes with repair and context collapse, community and corporeality, storying and rhetoric’s reconstitutive capacity, and more: nine distinctive yet generatively syncopated entries. Due to longer lines at the ferris wheel ticket window and kettle corn stand, carnival #1 yielded more time for composing…

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RIDE Blog Carnival #1 Playback

Many of the blog carnivals of the 2000s responded to moments and events; I remember them as informal, self-selective with regard to participation, and staggered in time so as to foster dialogue and cross-hatched linking to one another’s entries. Simply, conversations played out. The carnivals that have endured through University of Michigan’s Digital Rhetoric Collaborative…

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Among Theory’s Purposes

Would you characterize Byung-Chul Han’s Non-things as a critical theory, a productive theory, or something else? Why? This week while reading “A Portrait of a Scholar…In Progress” in Composition Forum, the distinction Louise Phelps draws between critical and productive theories queued these questions. If we grant “theory” its etymology, the trace gives us theorein, or…

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Dizzily Growing Network

Dizzily Growing Network

Reading Borges in the past, I remember regarding the infinite permutations of “garden”-pathing, forecasting hypertext, abundant, wonderful, and inviting. But this time, the fourth? or fifth?, a Friday afternoon in late August, am struck by the inexhaustible and therefore exhausting (for mortal humans) infinitude. A garden does not plant, nor water, nor curate itself. The…

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First Fives

First Fives

During our opening class meeting, August 21, everyone created a list of five sites or platforms associated principally with the phrase “in digital environments.” Time runs out, so we didn’t have much opportunity to talk about the environments, specifically, nor generally, but I returned to them today, Tuesday, with the goal of sorting them and…

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