October 2011
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Collect, Quote, Create: toward a critical/creative...
This week’s lecture focuses on James Clifford’s chapter from The Predicament of Culture, “Collecting Art and Culture.” Roughly summarized, we could say Clifford breaks this chapter up around four inter-related aspects of collecting: 1. the taxonomic art-culture system of collecting and display (museums, galleries etc.); 2. the relationship of this system to critical...
Oct 31st
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Oct 21st
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What Are You Going to Do About It? ENGL 100
What are you going to do about it? This was the second question I put to groups in  Tuesday’s Lecture. I asked, “Now that we have a sense of what do you want from this course, or what do you expect to get from ENGL 100, what are you going to do to make it happen?” email a response to: glowry subject: ENGL100 Rocks On sign it w/ the 1st names of everyone in the group. 2pm...
Oct 19th
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In Praxis: Realism and Ostranenie →
Here’s a nice post by inpraxis. It does an excellent job keeping the Ginzburg “Making it Strange” chapter real and relevant. inpraxis: This past week the I keep running into two (presumably) conflicting ideas. Last Wednesday - I attended a lecture in the photo department by Sarah Dobai. A photographer/filmaker from the UK. Her work raised a lot of question for me about the...
Oct 19th
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Oct 18th
Oct 18th
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What We Want / Expect from ENGL 100?
What follows are the unedited responses from the ENGL 100 students to the question: what do you want / expect from this course? The students worked in groups and emailed their answers during class What do you want from ENGL100? In  Tuesday’s Lecture. I asked groups to talk about, “What they want/expect from ENGL 100?” There was some discussion of the discrepancy between...
Oct 18th
Week 6: Reboot
Facebook = people you knew in highschool Tumblr =  people you wished you knew in highschool                                           —Mimi Ito  The above is a paraphrase from a slid Cultural Anthropologist Mimi Ito (blog) presented in a panel on Learning with Mobile Media at the New School’s MobilityShifts symposium. In her talk, Ito’s reminded us that, like youth, not all...
Oct 17th