Category: words

  • kateordie: Sometimes I have the time and patience to get from an idea to a fully fleshed-out, penciled, inked and coloured comic. Sometimes I don’t.

  • Introduction to the Avant-Garde: A Secondary Materials Primer; Or, A Recommended Reading List

    Introduction to the Avant-Garde: A Secondary Materials Primer; Or, A Recommended Reading List christopherhiggs:

  • Over the course of this academic year, the University of California, once the equal of any public institution of the world, has refined its pedagogy toward a comically singular lesson: that’ll teach you to sit down. Joshua Clover in The Nation. The Shock Doctrine Goes to College (via protoslacker)

  • recommends: Futura, backcover magazine

  • According to Suzanne Gallagher, “problematizing [is] the process of grasping an assumption, that is, a taken-for-granted way of thinking, and turning it into a question” (1999, p. 70). It involves surfacing and identifying certain, often implicit, assumptions and beliefs and asking whether they really make sense and whether they admit of alternatives. Problematizing Gifted Education,…

  • meinwelt: Christo Wrapped Snoopy House  2004  Project for Charles M. Schulz Museum Lithograph and collage

  • christopherhiggs: Maciej Ratajski

  • good: Why Supporting Your Local Library Is the Ultimate Homage to Ray Bradbury “When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week,” said Bradbury. “I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I…

  • My students resist the lack of topic structure because they are the children of structured learning and structured entertainment. John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic (via Thomas Steele-Maley (via robertogreco)