Author: Steve
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Hart Crane: The Book Is Better
A film review over at the Poetry Foundation blog makes the new James Franco film about Hart Crane seem a lot less about Hart Crane and a lot more about Franco’s ideas about him. Then again, can you ever have an alternative to that? I bet so few people have ever read Hart Crane that it…
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Technology’s Dramatic Interlude
CURTAIN rises on a very sparsely furnished office with a few books on the floor and some gutted computers here and there. A man sits staring at a computer screen wearing a headset like he’s doing voice recognition software training, but says nothing. A young man in a very nice monogrammed polo sits at a…
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Academic Service-Learning Workshop, Part 1
Attending a 2 day Academic Service-Learning (ASL) workshop. I’m not a big fan of ASL. I find the way it is discussed to be incredibly uncomfortable. I find the attitudes of the people who are passionate about it to be just shy of straight-up colonial paternalism. And the final thing that turns me off: History…
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Opportunity, to teach
This article is timed perfectly for me. I’ve been thinking about how to re-create (recreate?) my public speaking class. Like a computer, public speaking gets slow, frustrating, and doesn’t help you produce anything good unless you reformat it and do a clean install of the operating system from time to time. This essay is really…
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Style and Performance and Argument
Image via Wikipedia Lama Tsony on Crazy Wisdom Crazy Wisdom is a new film about the life of Chogyam Trunga. I like this piece from Tricycle because of the metaphor – “he embodied a quality of fearlessness that was like licking honey off a razor blade.” Getting the best out of a precarious and harmful situation…
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Antidote to e-book guilt
Johann Hari: How to survive the age of distraction – Johann Hari, Commentators – The Independent In which she argues that the internet distracts us from the difficulty in reading tree-flesh books, and how this means books will survive. They are difficult to read, require our concentration, but we need them. I still have little…
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New CA/Tab Website for American Debate
It was designed to hopefully increase diversity in tournament administration. We have the same people (mostly Tuna Snider and myself) running all the Worlds divisions on the East Coast, and I’d like to put a stop to that. More diversity means better, more diverse debates via more diverse topics, and a different eye reading feedback…
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Freedom!
This essay is the best thing I’ve read so far today! And, ironically, I am posting it on my blog. Time to check out this program she talks about, Freedom.
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E-reader Guilt
A Perfect Storm: Save St. Mark’s Bookshop! Yea, it’s true, I like this bookstore a lot. But I don’t go that often. I don’t go not just because I have a Kindle though. I think the e-reader/print dispute is a black/white fallacy. It’s a lot more complicated why a bookstore might be threatened. The primary…
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The New York Public Library vs. Big Media
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library_babel_fish/how_libraries_trump_big_media A must read for all of you Economist addicts out there. Commercial media just doesn’t hold up well when compared to public organizations that do information literacy right. Do you go to the library? Or do you leaf through the Economist on the way to the tournament? The difference is between the athlete who…
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