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=Wes Shipley=

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Academics
Currently a graduate student at Appalachian State University in the Higher Education and Instructional Technology programs.

In 2012 I Graduated Appalachian State University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Interdisciplinary Studies BA
My IDS degree was individually designed and focused on the production and dissemination of multiplicities of knowledge formations. In short I studied the ways mediums presuppose meanings, i.e. books are different than movies. I focused specifically on metaphor. Arguing metaphor restricts while at the same time gives freedom to our linguistic expression as well as how our metaphors are shaped by lived experience and also shape our lived experience. My thesis was titled The Truth in Metaphor.

Interests

 * Epistemology
 * Knowledges
 * Metaphor
 * Situated Knowledges


 * Digital Humanities
 * Semiotics
 * Marshal McLuhan
 * Post-humanism
 * Philosophy


 * Literary Criticism
 * Michel Foucault
 * Power
 * Discursive rejimes of truth
 * Derrida
 * Deconstruction
 * Metaphysics of presence/absence
 * John Searle
 * Speech Acts


 * Process philosophy
 * John Dewey
 * I ching
 * Theology
 * Organization