<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://preterite.net/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://preterite.net/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-08-28T04:09:12+00:00</updated><id>https://preterite.net/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Mike Edwards</title><subtitle>Mike Edwards, Associate Professor: rhetoric, composition, technology, economy.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">The Absent Archive</title><link href="https://preterite.net/weblog/2026/08/25/the-absent-archive/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Absent Archive" /><published>2026-08-25T08:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-08-25T08:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://preterite.net/weblog/2026/08/25/the-absent-archive</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://preterite.net/weblog/2026/08/25/the-absent-archive/"><![CDATA[<p>I’ve kept a mostly academic weblog since June 2003, first at vitia.org and
later here. Twenty-odd years of thinking in public: teaching and rhetoric,
economics and technology, a run of writing from Afghanistan in 2011 that won
<em>Kairos</em>’s <a href="https://kairos.technorhetoric.net/awards/pastwinners.html#blog">John Lovas Memorial
Award</a>, a long
habit of Friday fiction, and the comment threads that engaged and extended the
discussion.</p>

<p>It isn’t here yet. The archive is moving out of WordPress into the same static
form as the rest of this site, and it crosses whole – published posts,
drafts, comments, and the pingback network that tied it to other weblogs. That
last part is the slow bit.</p>

<p>Until then, most of it is readable at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/preterite.net/blog/*">Internet
Archive</a>. Back soon – yes,
with cats.</p>

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