Posted in 3387, 3386, 3385, 3388, 3389, 3392, 3391, 3390, 2735, 2964, story, the, my, and, 2745, 2962, 2829, General on Feb 27th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m too tired tonight to do any justice at all to this story, but I would like to note it and perhaps return to it another time.
Today in the 11:00 section of my Introduction to Literary Studies class the discussion was particularly rich and intense. At one point I was asking one student a series […]
Posted in 3235, 3082, 2993, 2735, 3354, 3355, 3358, 3357, 3356, 2966, 2962, reading, blog, posts, the, today, a, and, inspiring, General on Feb 21st, 2008 Comments Off
The Intro. to New Media Studies class today was pretty explosive. I had assigned excerpts in The New Media Reader from McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium is the Message. I was up this morning about 5, reading some insightful and tremendously inspiring blog posts from the class. A couple of the posts were especially […]
Posted in 3283, 3282, 3279, 3278, 3285, 3288, 3294, 3291, 3290, 2860, 2970, the, my, brian, today, i, 2735, 2879, a, General on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Interesting two days, in this respect anyway: I did a presentation on Brian Wilson for Elderstudy yesterday, then explored “I Get Around” all the way through “Caroline No” for my Rock/Soul/Progressive class today. From senior citizens (I really don’t like that term much) to 18-19 year-olds. Brian spoke to all of them. This of course […]
Posted in 3272, 2755, 3235, 3273, 3274, 3276, 3275, 3137, 3113, the, blogging, great, 2962, 2735, 2966, General on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
There’s a lot of great blogging going on in the Intro to New Media Studies class (always room for more, of course), much of it sparked by Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines. We’re moving from Nelson to Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg next Tuesday, but before we go, I thought I’d share a recent response […]
Posted in 3266, 3265, 3264, 3263, 3267, 3268, 3271, 3270, 3269, 3262, 3261, and, session, the, 2910, 2955, 2735, 2966, 2962, General on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off
ELI’s just published an interview with me and Serena Epstein at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, held in San Antonio just a few weeks ago. Interviewer/producer Gerry Bayne did an amazing job of corralling me into coherence, both during the interview and (especially) in post-production. My thanks to him, and also to Serena Epstein (heard […]
Posted in 3234, 3232, 3230, 3227, 3236, 3238, 3245, 3243, 3241, 3239, 3226, 3223, 2940, and, the, my, 2745, 2962, 3207, 2752, 2735, General on Feb 12th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m in the midst of A. S. Byatt’s Possession in my Intro. to Literary Studies class, working up to assignment one, which asks students to work with symbolism in Byatt’s romance. The idea of symbolism is quite complex (the etymology alone is intricate and fascinating). Students are accustomed to talking about imagery, themes, character, even […]
Posted in 3179, 3178, 3177, 3176, 3180, 3181, 3185, 3184, 3183, 3182, 3175, 3174, 2735, a, and, the, 2970, 2985, 3111, 3045, 2986, General on Feb 6th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ll share this bit of the story–more to come.
My Rock/Soul/Progressive class just finished James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin. At our last meeting, I decided we’d use what Miller says about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as a test case for a) evaluating the idealism and folly of the Sixties, b) evaluating Miller’s take […]
Posted in 3096, 3095, 3094, 3093, 3097, 3098, 3101, 3100, 3099, 2735, 2966, day, student, the, office, today, moment, 2964, 2962, meeting, General on Jan 31st, 2008 Comments Off
Back in the office today after the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, I met my first class at 9:30 this morning: Introduction to New Media Studies. Today was our first day on Doug Engelbart. In one moment, two-thirds of the way through the class, the synchronicities became unexpectedly piercing.
A student in the front row marvelled with […]
Posted in 3059, 3058, 3057, 3056, 3060, 3061, 3065, 3064, 3063, 3062, 3055, 3054, a, and, the, my, 2745, 2746, 2735, 2964, 2962, General on Jan 25th, 2008 Comments Off
There’s a thread here I’d like to pursue, or at least snarl with elan.
Today in my “Introduction to Literary Studies” class we were discussing Aristotle: the Poetics mostly, with a fillip of the Rhetoric. Our text, the redoubtable Norton Anthology of Literary Theory and Criticism, had an especially observant introduction to the Aristotle selections, one […]
Posted in 2981, 2982, 2980, 2979, 2978, 2983, 2984, 2988, 2987, 2986, 2985, 2977, 2976, 2969, 2735, the, my, 2970, 2971, 2975, 2974, 2973, 2972, General on Jan 16th, 2008 Comments Off
Prepping for the Rock/Soul/Progressive class tomorrow, and these words in James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin once again got my attention:
Meanwhile, most of my friends (discounting those who have continued to make their living by writing about, or recording, popular music) long ago stopped listening to rock. As they settle into middle age, their old […]