September 2011
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“Q: In many of your texts you deal with topics which in this country would be...”
– Müller, Heiner. “19 Answers by Heiner Müller” The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader. Eds. Michael Huxley and Noel Witts. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. p. 316
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“Yet Foucault’s aggressive interrogation of the workings of power, even as...”
– Foster, Susan Leigh. “Choreographing History.” The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader. Eds. Michael Huxley and Noel Witts. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002. p. 205
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“It did seem to many of the folks that I was around that something like that was...”
– Nicholas Perrin in conversation with Jules Boykoff at Jacket 2, “Poetry’s Spatial and Aesthetic Relationship to Power.”
August 2011
26 posts
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“…in her study “Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out,” American scholar...”
– Scholz, R. Trebor. “Introduction: Learning Through Digital Media.” Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. R. Trebor Scholz. New York: The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), 2009. viii-1. Web. 31 Aug. 2011....
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“In Steps to an Ecology of Mind, American anthropologist Gregory Bateson...”
– Scholz, R. Trebor. “Introduction: Learning Through Digital Media.” Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. R. Trebor Scholz. New York: The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), 2009. viii-1. Web. 31 Aug. 2011....
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“Learning with digital media isn’t solely about using this or that software...”
– Scholz, R. Trebor. “Introduction: Learning Through Digital Media.” Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. R. Trebor Scholz. New York: The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), 2009. viii-1. Web. 31 Aug. 2011....
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“In their work, academics build on the research of their peers, but when it comes...”
– Scholz, R. Trebor. “Introduction: Learning Through Digital Media.” Learning Through Digital Media Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Ed. R. Trebor Scholz. New York: The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC), 2009. viii-1. Web. 31 Aug. 2011....
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“The writer thinks: I have spoken and those who wish to hear will hear me. In...”
– Bertolt Brecht, “Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties”, via Juliana Spahr at Swoonrocket
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“Anyone who appreciates the essay knows that the genre takes its name from the...”
– “If Big Ideas are Elusive, Blame the New York Times,” by Beth Boyle Machlan for The Faster Times, August 15, 2011
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Richard Powers on "What Does Fiction Know?" →
“The brightest among them sets me straight on the matter: who cares whether you call a thing memoir or fantasy? Relax, Richard. Everything is narrative. The King is dead and it doesn’t really matter what killed the Queen. Anything that life can throw at you gets better if you read it as a pomo novel.”
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Living as Form →
Living as Form is an unprecedented, international project exploring over twenty years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue, and community engagement. Living as Form provides a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban ...
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Via Facebook, Thom Donovan Says: As an alternative... →
Thom Donovan , via Facebook, says: “As an alternative to the MFA, would anyone consider starting a writing/poetics intensive “social practice” program? One conceivable solution to the now-tiresome MFA conundrum. Also, arguably what socially engaged poetics programs/creative writing teachers have been doing for some time. Myung Mi Kim’s workshops come to mind, among...
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“The reasons why our virtual selves and our online communities have become so...”
– “Pernicious virtual communities: Identity, polarisation and the Web 2.0,” by Mitch Parsell, in Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 10, Number 1, p. 41
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut. Mother Night. Dell Publishing: New York, NY, 1999, p. 5.
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“The importance of online social spaces is growing. New Web 2.0 resources allow...”
– “Pernicious virtual communities: Identity, polarisation and the Web 2.0,” by Mitch Parsell, in Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 10, Number 1, 41-56
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“My semester assignment is not groundbreaking, but it is effective: every student...”
– Tiffany Holmes discussing her graduate seminar called Wired Writing: Culture and Community on the WWW at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago via “Socializing Blogs: A Guide for Beginners” at Learning Through Digital Media.
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“There is an artistic movement brewing, Shields writes. Among its hallmarks are...”
– “The Free Appropriation Writer,” by Randy Kennedy. (NYT, 2/28/2010)
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“A child of a media-saturated generation, she presented herself as a writer whose...”
– “The Free Appropriation Writer,” by Randy Kennedy. (NYT, 2/28/2010)
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“Sites like YouTube have emerged as meeting places between all kinds of ...”
– Henry Jenkins, “My Adventures in Poland, Part One,” 12/15/2006 on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
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“We are no longer talking about interactive media technologies; we are talking...”
– Henry Jenkins, “My Adventures in Poland, Part One,” 12/15/2006 on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
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“In the era of convergence, media literacy has expanded considerably. Finally,...”
– Matteo Bittanti, interviewed by Henry Jenkins in “DIY Media 2010: Video and Gaming Culture (Part Three), “1/17/2011 on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
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“There is a high degree of porousness between mainstream pop culture and the...”
– Matteo Bittanti, interviewed by Henry Jenkins in “DIY Media 2010: Video and Gaming Culture (Part Three), “1/17/2011 on Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins
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“But it has been a limited one, viewed with even greater suspicion now. And Mr....”
– “The Free Appropriation Writer,” by Randy Kennedy. (NYT, 2/28/2010)
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