I would hope--I am filled with hope and yes a certain amount of hype--that what I have to say will be of value to our ever-growing and -widening community.
We of the CCCCs are composed of members from 4-year and 2-year universities and colleges, of members who are bricoleurs when it comes to anything concerning computers and writing while we are also composed of members who insist on sticking with a wooden pencil and a BigChiefTablet when it comes to anything called "writing." And while some can really dance with a computer, others should not be We, in many ways, are a setless of radical multiplicities, yet nonetheless a community of professionals. A Coming Composing Community of Professionals. Or as some would play with the binary, A Coming Community of Passionate Amateurs. I consider myself to be an amateur, forcefully e-Victed from professionalisms. I would rather be among the Passionate Amateurs (or as Giorgio Agamben says, among "an inessential commonality"). |
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