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THATCamp :: The Humanities and Technology Camp
Their next camp is in May 2010, presumably at GMU.
Critics say full-body scans are 'virtual strip search' - CNN.com
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Basically, any pat-down that you are not violated and embarrassed after is ineffective
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"Stop trying to guess. You take away guns and bombs, the terrorists use box cutters. You take away box cutters, they put explosives in their shoes. You screen shoes, they use liquids. You take away liquids, they strap explosives to their body. You use full-body scanners, they're going to do something else,"
James M. Lang, "Speaking Truth to Papers (on using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to comment on papers), The Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 13, 2009)
Seen on @NITLE_Writing 's Twitter stream.
Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology," 1954
Thank you again, Martin Lindner.
Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology (commentary and guide from Criticalink)
Seen on the inestimable Martin Lindner's Twitter stream. (This is NOT Heidegger's primary text -- it's a guide for students, very well put together.)
CriticaLink: General Introduction
An electronic library of information, aimed at undergrads, about foundational texts for modern critical theory. Includes reading guides, critical glossaries, background information, and discussion questions. Very good use of technology (though not at all flashy).
Allison Arieff, "Searching for Value in Ludicrous Ideas," By Design, NY Times Blogs (May 4, 2009)
About "inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson, a sort of R. Crumb meets R. Buckminster Fuller.... who says, 'If I could use two words to describe what it is that I enjoy it is that I love to be sneakily outrageous . . . [It may be that] I have decided an idea has no practical worth and would never be likely to be adopted seriously (like most of my ideas), but I like it anyway.'”
Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains | Wired Science from Wired.com
If I could focus long enough to get through the whole article, I'd probably learn something depressing...
Government will spy on every call and e-mail - Times Online
From the story: "Ministers are considering spending up to £12 billion on a database to monitor and store the internet browsing habits, e-mail and telephone records of everyone in Britain."
Your chance to ask Sarah Palin a question, sort of
What an idea. The Democrats have set up a mobile electronic billboard near a Palin rally near LA, and anyone can text a "question for Sarah Palin" to an SMS shortcode and it will be displayed there. Live video of the billboard itself is being streamed via Ustream.tv.
The Carnegie Commons - Community Event: Discussion by the authors of Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge
An online discussion scheduled for 11 am, Oct. 2, 2008. The book: Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, with an intro. by John Seely Brown (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).
Siva Vaidhyanathan, "Generational Myth: Not all young people are tech-savvy," The Chronicle Review (Sept. 19, 2008)
Vaidhyanathan's point: stop talking about the "digital generation." It's bullshit. Among current students, some are comfortable with web technology, others are not, and most are anything but "savvy." For example: they have no idea how to use Google effectively, just like twenty years ago most of them had no idea how to use a library reference room effectively, and no idea how to analyze broadcast or print media critically. Why should they? Are people thinking they somehow pick up these skills by osmosis just because computers are lying around?
Esther Dyson, "How Loss of Privacy May Mean Loss of Security," Scientific American (August 2008)
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Archives/McLuhan%27s%20Philosophy.htm
Got curious about McLuhan, whose ideas I have only a very superficial conception of, via one of @melmcbride's Friendfeed posts. This seems like a useful resource page of links and extracts.
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