Ryan Bince

Rather than a "job" (something you do because you have to in order to satisfy some larger figure or in order to survive), I intend to have an "occupation" (something you do out of will; a calling that preoccupies a person). I hope to spend my time as a community builder--nurturing publics by helping to create spaces and means for artistic expression and dissemination of discourses about public life. After all, the more a public learns to express itself (and not just certain advantaged members of that public, but the public as a whole), the closer it may come to achieving that mythic state of being a "good society." These professional aspirations, I think, are only a civically minded and larger-scale version of my above personal motives for studying rhetoric--if a society can express itself authentically and align its actions and policies with its collective values and beliefs, then that society becomes harmonious and authentic. Such a utopian state of affairs is surely impossible to achieve. That said, we really should try anyway.

Considering my occupational goals, I will pursue employment in whatever spaces are best for achieving those goals. The academy, at least to start with, seems very promising. Then again, though, there are many paths that would suit my aspirations. Only time will tell which one I will take.

I am in graduate school right now! It is very interesting.

I love to play.