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But people have a lot to resent—why shouldn’t it be mobilized politically? And free tuition and single-payer are pretty good solutions for some of those problems. Starr just doesn’t like them. Best leave the tuition issue to some vague, incomprehensible scheme (that apparently involves lots of work–study and online learning) and health care to a…
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The Myth of the Hero Teacher – The New York Times
The Myth of the Hero Teacher – The New York Times hongkongteacher: Freire’s concept of “false generosity seems appropriate here. After quitting his job in an urban school with marginalized students due to the difficulties he encountered, the teacher in the article comments: “I want to be one of those teachers that kids really like…
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2016 Exhibition Catalog
This v1b3 project was curated by Mat Rappaport and Gail Rubini, Conrad Gleber, Ivan Martinez, and Chris Manzione. It was part of the College Art Association 2016 national conference. The exhibition catalog, linked below, includes an essay by Tiffany Funk. My code drawings in Hopscotch were included in this collection. https://v1b3.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/art2codeF.pdf
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We control the world basically because we are the only animals that can cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. And if you examine any large-scale human cooperation, you will always find that it is based on some fiction like the nation, like money, like human rights. These are all things that do not exist objectively,…
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On the Book Pile
stoweboyd: I’m enjoying Vitebsky’s work – more of an anthropology work than many non-fiction award winners – and the dominant sense is the forcible collapse of the nomadic Tungus pastoralists in the last half of the 20th century by imperial Soviet Russia. Rereading an old Delany space opera from the mid sixties with strong linguistics…