Category Archives: Complexity Theory and Writing

September: Already Gone, Always to Return

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Jessica Yood

Welcome (back?) after a long hiatus. My first post for the 2014 academic year was published on another site–the AEPL blog: The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning–thanks for the opportunity. Perpetual September: On Being a Beginner in an Age … Continue reading →

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Writing Wisdom from Professor September

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Jessica Yood

Every September, I have the same dream:  I am not going to graduate from college. The undergraduate kind. I did graduate, seventeen years ago in 1995.  But that doesn’t mean I won’t be found out (unpaid library fines, unsigned Bursar … Continue reading →

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Paradox Found: How To Write About Complexity

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Jessica Yood

I’m writing on article on complexity. But then who isn’t? And there you have it. The ultimate non-discovery of my subject of study. Writing and complexity are everywhere already written. Put in another way, the article has to be finished … Continue reading →

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Reading Block

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Jessica Yood

I ended the last post having finished The Future of Invention Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change by John Muckelbauer (SUNY UP, 2008), which I read while putting another book on hold, David Denby’s Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, … Continue reading →

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