The OTHER Shaky Foundation of The Global Financial System
When the illegal economy is more stable than the legal one, you know we’re in deep you-know-what. [From The OTHER Shaky Foundation of The Global Financial System] ——— perhaps it is just me, but i cannot imagine a contemporary capitalist society where, the illegal economy would not be more stable. it by definition has to […]
Read MoreGraduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go – Chronicle.com
AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go It’s hard to tell young people that universities view their idealism and energy as an exploitable resource [From Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go – Chronicle.com] —— I think this should not just be Humanities, it is somewhat the same in […]
Read MoreHow Bad Is It? L
How Bad Is It? Look at The Pretty Graph is a graph of the market capitalization of various banks. look at the fictional money:)
Read More“Down the Rabbit Hole” day
This dissociation of cultural subject and cultural production problematizes much of the scholarship being done in virtual worlds which depends on the assumptions that subject/s create or exist in relation to objects, but in the messiness of programmable systems, the mixing of subjects/objects into quasi-subjects, quasi-objects, and the pluralization of the relationship between a persons interface and their ‘avatar’, causes one to be immediately skeptical of the reported experiences of people acting through their interfaces in the virtual world. … In short, when exploring culture in virtual worlds, we need to take care in our methodological choices and their assumptions for even the most basic assumptions such as, “my student in my virtual classroom had the same experience as my other students” is likely to be false in ways that are profoundly different than the ways it may be false in a f2f classroom.
Read More“Down the Rabbit Hole†day
Cory Doctorow points out that today is Down the Rabbit Hole day, so here is something i drafted recently that normally i would never post. —- Culture in virtual worlds? Critiquing the complexities and our assumptions Jeremy Hunsinger Granted this model of culture makes things more complex and clouded than many current ideological strands of […]
Read More7 things you probably didn’t know about me
The rules: 1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. 2. Share seven facts about yourself in the post. 3. Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names. 4. Let them know they’ve been tagged. I was tagged by my wife Random Access Mazar 1. […]
Read MoreThe Problems with One Laptop Per Child
In The World’s Fair : The Problems with One Laptop Per Child Ben Cohen (a colleague of mine from school) presents what his students, all engineers in training, find to be problematic about OLPC. He follows uphere. While my problems with OLPC are parallel to his students, I think there are much more interesting secondary […]
Read MoreReblock Yourself the Polly Frost Way!
Reblock Yourself the Polly Frost Way! [From Reblock Yourself the Polly Frost Way! – The Atlantic (January 7, 2009) ] —000000——-0000000—— nice little thought piece on getting control of your writer’s voice after you’ve realized blogging,rss, anonymity, and etc. have destroyed it.
Read MoreFacts should be avoided.
Technical knowledge was to be strenuously avoided: “Facts are the core of an anti-intellectual curriculum,†he observed. “Facts do not solve problems. . . . The gadgeteers and the data collectors have threatened to become the supreme chieftains of the scholarly world.†The true stewards of the university, said the career administrator, should be those […]
Read MoreThe man who invented the doner kebab has died – Telegraph
The man who invented the doner kebab has died [From The man who invented the doner kebab has died – Telegraph] —— He changed the world…
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