Brookeshelves
Collin Brookenotes towards a larger project on rhetoric, technology, and democracy.
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Obsession (2026) as Allegory
I don’t remember when exactly, but early in my graduate career, I stumbled upon an exercise for class discussion. The idea was that you would ask all of the students in class to make a list, but secretly give half of the class one prompt, a...
Stay away from screens
I want to begin this episode by marking the passing of Wendell Berry, whose writing I’ve only come to fairly late in my career. (My title for this episode comes from his poem “How to Be a Poet.”) I’m the second-to-last person who should say...
Mellifluency
It’s the end of the first week of classes and I’ve been busy, with commitments that ran all the way up through Friday afternoon. Most weeks, my week will end on Thursday evening with the graduate course that I’m teaching. I’m at an age wher...
Teaching Writing in an Age of "Postliteracy"
Every year, right before the semester starts, our department holds its annual Fall Teaching Conference. As Chair, I kick that event off with a talk, and over the past few years, I’ve come to think of it almost like a state of the union addr...
Attention is...
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem...
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