Oftentimes our perspective gets in the way of our perception. Every way of seeing, Kenneth Burke says, is a way of not seeing. In other words, whenever we pick a perspective, we lock ourselves out of other perspectives. The key, then, to using information in a scholarly way, it to acknowledge perspective and then to try to get around it. It isn't about finding discrete answers to specific questions.

I'll be honest, this lecture is a mess because my note taking time and my lecture recording time were separated by kids getting sick and not much sleep. I'll probably rerecord and upload it some other time after revising and revisiting my notes, but for now, here ya go.