Introduction

I'm reading in various areas: studies of place, ecology, geology, history, sociology, work, wandering, Tully, witnessing, rhetoric and other things.  So I hope that by writing brief abstracts of these readings, starring them with keywords, I'll be able to link them together and separate them out in my head.  I'm working on three projects, one a "deep map" of place, one a paper on witnessing and listening as an overlooked rhetorical practice, and one on a bunch of poems.

I'm not planning to review these articles -- to rank them on some of perfect cross-disciplinary rubric.  I just want to identify the exigency they identify, their key claims, the argument (and any gaps in it if I can spot them) and how I might use this.  Ultimately, it's pretty selfish work, but I'm making it into a blog so it might somehow help somebody else decide if the article is useful to him or her.