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The traditional assumption that schooling is fundamentally tied to the imperatives of citizenship designed to educate students to exercise civic leadership and public service has been eroded. The schools are now the key institution for producing professional, technically trained, credentialized workers for whom the demands of citizenship are subordinated to the vicissitudes of the marketplace…
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Mancuso showed a slide depicting how trees in a forest organize themselves into far-flung networks, using the underground web of mycorrhizal fungi which connects their roots to exchange information. The pattern of nutrient traffic showed how “mother trees” were using the network to nourish shaded seedlings, including their offspring — which the trees can apparently…
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fixed the offsetting. it was an “order of operations” (mis)behavior or (mis)interpretation. here are the first three and the final pass. it’s more interesting watching it draw each one in succession that each static “finished” pass or version. here we get to see a hint of a kind of palimpsest effect, the previous drawing influencing…
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THESIS EXCERPT #1
THESIS EXCERPT #1 thequietestnoiseonearth: If Learning From Las Vegas served as the opening salvo of postmodernism, then hypermodernism could just as easily be inaugurated by a Learning From Tumblr (or maybe Reddit or 4chan?), in reference to the sites that have become the “decorated shed” of the internet. Images on these sites are…
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Furthermore, any hope for the Internet to make things easier, to reduce the anxiety of my existence, was simply over—it failed—and it was just another thing to deal with. What we mean when we say “Internet” became not a thing in the world to escape into, but rather the world one sought escape from…sigh…It became…