Political examples of the neutral:

What value is in neutrality? Process? Regression? Is meaning meaningful as over-used trope?
The network as dramatic (the drama queen of rhetorical gestures!) gesture:

But statements too don't suffice. In place of truisms or aphorisms, we want paths. What kind of paths? Twisting, confusing, straight, dead-end, open, stolen, never taken paths. Follow them to nowhere? Ok. Follow them to somewhere? Ok. Follow them back onto themselves (the general critique of weblogs: too much navel-gazing). Ok. Why ok? Dunno. Ask Jeeves (or the copy of Jeeves):
being unsuitable and inappropriate. Now we are getting somewhere. A rhetoric of inappropriateness. Nova techniques for the Web (the novel as pornographic for content, form, grammar, you name it, bub). It is too appropriate to claim that we "teach students to be good thinkers." Du-uh. Instead, we ask for the inappropriate response, for the collide-oscope of unexpected/unfamiliar gestures - their unfamiliarity marks their inappropriateness (teach plagiarism! why I never!).

More later.