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Mistakes as portals

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 […]

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What do I expect from the first day?

I’ve met all four of my classes once now. This semester it’s two sections of Introduction to Literary Studies (gateway course for the major–theory and criticism and genre and close reading and a partridge…), one section of Introduction to New Media Studies, and one section of Rock/Soul/Progressive. Each beginning was different. Some of the classes […]

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Art School, England: Very Heaven

I’m reading around in Ian MacDonald’s Revolution in the Head: The Eeatles’ Records and the Sixties, and it’s just as good as they say. I’d picked it up in a bookstore several years and landed on a song where MacDonald’s analysis completely rubbed me up wrong, so I put it back on the shelf. Yet […]

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Reading Brian’s post on his splendid EDUCAUSE Review mashup article (go read it right this red hot second–you will thank me, I promise), I realize I have yet to blog on my essay in the Sept/Oct. issue, or post a link to the podcast, or give my thanks. Although this post cannot begin to express […]

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