John Thompson

University of Texas at Austin

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Milk, Eggs, Arugula, Identity: The Grocery List in a Time of Change

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John Thompson University of Texas at Austin

June 29, 2010
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Milk, Eggs, Arugula, Identity: The Grocery List in a Time of Change When I think of everyday lists bearing meaning, I remember my father agonizing over the grocery list. He was a member of the “Greatest Generation” who retired way too early, and the role ...

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Re: Rethinking Attachment

Re: Rethinking Attachment

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John Thompson University of Texas at Austin

Monday, August 30, 2010 — 4:50 pm
Fascinating. As a rhetorician, it is obvious that attaching things is a rhetorical act. Yet, as a basic consumer/worker/paper-using person that rhetoric is so ingrained, it never occurred to me before. The notion that the e-mail attachment is simultane ...
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Re: Media and Metamorphosis: On Notes and Books

Re: Media and Metamorphosis: On Notes and Books

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John Thompson University of Texas at Austin

Monday, August 30, 2010 — 4:55 pm
Yet the note has a different audience from the finished work, does it not? The note's audience is the author, with the finished work's audience just a shadow. ...