Arguing the DigDiv

Divided Places. Divided People. Divided Participation. A rhetoric & writing class at UT Austin.

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"Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do." — Zizek

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Honestly, some of your startup ideas were better than this

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If that’s what the assignment description says. Don’t add fluff, or at least not too much.

[Shreyas @RHEshreyas]

@RHE309 Is the word count still 750-1000?

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Apologies for the confusion. The final essay should be 2.5–3 pages, with emojis & gifs (you might need to hyperlink) in the paper itself.

[TF @TJF321ADD]

@RHE309 I am reading the prompt and am confused. How many submissions am I supposed to have? It says 500-700 words for the first submission (is that the twitter thread we already did?) and then 2 1/2 - 3 pages for the second. Do the emojis and gifs go into the final paper?

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@SheikhMenhal Here's the man himself addressing something like your question: https://t.co/WzziZcuVRR

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Threats to the Excluded, the (not held in common) Social Outside: https://t.co/O2LyLOfU3l

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Zizek's 4 Antagonisms in the News:

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Threats to Intellectual Property, the Commons of the Social Inside: https://t.co/oOaVkjSDyP

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For Monday: You just have to read the "Beyond Fukuyama" section in the Zizek text, & we'll do course evals at the end of class.

For Wednesday: Your final paper is due @ the usual time, but you can stay home.

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@TJF321ADD "deluge" 😭

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@abbeyeparks1 The course website has everything you need: https://t.co/48BHpwekUg

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If you don’t do the homework, I’ll spoil #AvengersEndgame for you

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FYI, you’ve got some #RHEADD homework due on Monday

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https://t.co/u9ia63Cmm3

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Check the column on the right hand side of the page for a list of rhetorical figures with examples: https://t.co/5QgJG1JmrS

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FYI, you’ve got some #RHEADD homework due on Monday

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

For @Wired, I wrote about the tyranny of our friendly, helpful, ubiquitous overlords: the recommendation algorithms that nudge us on what to buy, watch or read. Like many other things, there are issues when they work and issues when they fail or are gamed. https://t.co/RRw5QGxhfz

[Jane Coaston 🏔️ @janecoaston]

This is a fantastic piece that is worth reading for everyone.

To conservatives and liberals alike: if you see something on Twitter that seems to play exactly into your ideological priors about another group of people, MAYBE IT’S A HOAX.

https://t.co/0nk190sCtn

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https://t.co/Mmg1Pphs4V

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