Teaching in the Margins: Eric Ellingsen
How can we design walking in the city as an education experiment so that we understand that the way we walk down the street reinforces or renegotiates the political and economic speeds investments feelings and systems in public space?
Teaching in the Margins: Matthew Goulish
Creativity thrives within limits, within the challenges that constraints pose, and the classroom offers a wealth of constraints.
Memory Under a Microscope: Memoir Culture and THE SCIENTISTS
Roth draws our attention to what memoir is — a constructed, self-conscious narrative plucked out of the hazy, episodic world of memory — and immediately sets his book as one apart from contemporary memoir culture.
Unheard Melodies in a Cacophony of Gabble: The Case for Goodreads
I hope we can be confident enough to always maintain an eternal amateurism—maybe one day we’ll even achieve an expert amateurism—thanks to humility in the face of the hundred thousand books we’ll never read.
Intellectual Infection: A Conversation About Donna Haraway
Seen in light of infection, evolution is always co-evolution. It becomes untenable to track the progress of an individual species the way Darwinian evolution does.
Teaching in the Margins: Juliana Spahr
There is no shortage of academic labor. We don’t need to consolidate it.
Not Reading and Tan Lin’s HEATH COURSE PAK
Tan Lin has chosen to write a book for, and about, the very attention span that doesn’t want to read it: that unique awareness, the distracted mind.
Teaching in the Margins: Seth Abramson
The time of the workshop is over.
Why Don’t They Just Leave? Revisiting THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Why don’t they just leave? What is keeping them inside? The answer in the best haunted house literature is, they don’t leave because they cannot.
Teaching in the Margins: Jane Sprague
Maybe if I’m teaching anything it’s: look.