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Floridi, L. (2014). The 4th revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality

Header image: KF in Dall-E Floridi, L. (2014). The 4th revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (First ed.). Oxford University Press. we need a philosophy of information as a philosophy of our time for our time. ╬ 2. T I M E Hyperhistory Memory half of our data is junk, we just do not know […]

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Byung-Chul Han: “I practise philosophy as art”” [UNDINGE (NONOBJECTS)]

Header image: KF in Dall-E Gesine Borcherdt 02 December 2021 ArtReviewhttps://artreview.com/byung-chul-han-i-practise-philosophy-as-art/ Undinge (Nonobjects) Byung-Chul Han Undinge proposes that the age of objects is over. The terrane order, the order of the Earth, consists of objects that take on a permanent form and provide a stable environment for human habitation. Today the terrane order has been replaced by the digital order. The digital […]

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White (2018) Newspapers, gossip and coffee-house culture

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://web.archive.org/web/20210117034441/https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/newspapers-gossip-and-coffee-house-culture (1675~1750) Late 17th-century coffee-houses were noted for their egalitarian and democratic character; people of all ranks sat alongside one another, actively engaging in debate with both friends and strangers alike. The layout of many coffee-houses fostered this rich social mixing. Many coffee-houses possessed long communal tables where patrons were expected […]

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Dunbar’s number

Header image: KF in Dall-E Dunbar’s number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number The Limits of Friendship https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/social-media-affect-math-dunbar-number-friendships There’s no question, Dunbar agrees, that networks like Facebook are changing the nature of human interaction. “What Facebook does and why it’s been so successful in so many ways is it allows you to keep track of people who would otherwise effectively disappear,” […]

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James, W. (1892). The Self.

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/james-self/release/2 (A) the self as known, or the me, the ‘empirical ego’ as it is sometimes called (B) the self as knower, or the I, the ‘pure ego’ of certain authors. A. The Self as Known: The Empirical Self or Me Between what a man calls me and what he simply […]

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Fromm (1947) Man for Himself

Header image: KF in Dall-E 4· Faith as a Character Trait 5 The Moral Powers in Man Our moral problem is man’s indifference to himself. It lies in the fact that we have lost the sense of the significance and uniqueness of the individual, that we have made ourselves into instruments for purposes outside ourselves, that […]

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Foucault

Header image: KF in Dall-E (May 25, 2021) How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Righthttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opinion/michel-foucault.html?smid=tw-share (May 24, 2021) Review: How a California acid trip made Michel Foucault a neoliberalhttps://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-05-24/review-how-a-california-acid-trip-made-michel-foucault-a-neoliberal (Summer 2021) How We Forgot Foucault by Geoff Shullenbergerhttps://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/how-we-forgot-foucault/

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Floridi (2016) The ephemeral nature of the permanent self

Header image: KF in Dall-E The nature of the self (12:00) ╬ 16:30: Wilde” one who could play gracefully with ideas but had arrived at violence of opinion merely— 18:00 Memory: ~ the more you engage with social media (the more you write your own profile) the more constrained [written upon] you become – the fixed […]

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Moeller (2021) You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity

Header image: KF in Dall-E Moeller, H., & D’Ambrosio, P.J. (2021). You and your profile: Identity after authenticity. Columbia University Press. Identity enables us to accept the face we see in the mirror as our own. We need it for coming to terms with the “grotesque mask” that we see there, which cannot be stripped away. We […]

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Williamson (2013) The Future of the Curriculum. School Knowledge in the Digital Age

Header image: KF in Dall-E What might be the future of the curriculum in the digital age? Williamson, B. (2013). The future of the curriculum. School knowledge in the digital age. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9457.001.0001 2 Curriculum Change and the Future of Official Knowledge 3 Networks, Decentered Systems, and Open Educational Futures 4 Creative Schooling and the […]

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Muls et al (2019). Identifying the nature of social media policies in high schools.

Header image: KF in Dall-E Muls, J., Thomas, V., De Backer, F., Zhu, C., & Lombaerts, K. (2019). Identifying the nature of social media policies in high schools. Education and Information Technologies, 25, 281– 305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-019-09971-7 The existence and extent of social media visions, policies and guidelines in high schools in Flanders (Belgium, Europe) and how these policies are embedded in the schools. 47 high schools: Results […]

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Marín et al (2021). Pre-service teachers’ perceptions of social media data privacy policies.

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13035

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Dovchin (2020) The psychological damages of linguistic racism and international students in Australia

Header image: KF in Dall-E https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2020.1759504

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Han (2017) Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

Header image: KF in Dall-E Han, B. (2017). Psycho-Politics. Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power. Verso. 1. The Crisis of Freedom [Reddit commentary] 2. Smart Power 3. The Mole and the Snake 4. Biopolitics 5. Foucault’s Dilemma 6. Healing as Killing 7. Shock 8. Friendly Big Brother 9. Emotional Capitalism 10. Gamification 11. Big Data 12. […]

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Couldry & Mejias. (2019) The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

Our argument in this book—that human life is being colonized by data and needs to be decolonized The underlying question on which this book will focus: should human beings in the twenty first century accept a world in which their lives are unceasingly appropriated through data for capitalism? although the modes, intensities, scales, and contexts […]

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Iftody (2013) How we ‘word the world’

Header image: KF in Dall-E Iftody, T. (2013). Letting experience in at the front door and bringing theory through the back: Exploring the pedagogical possibilities of situated self-narration in teacher education The qualities of the world are there for those who have the skills to take them (Eisner, 1988, p. 15). St. Pierre, E. (2000). Poststructural […]

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Kwame Anthony Appiah (2017) As If – Idealization and Ideals

Header image: KF in Dall-E WATCH: The Philosophy of “As If” with Kwame Anthony Appiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec80Gtqrj48 (90 mins) 1 Useful Untruths Lessons from Hans Vaihinger A simple statement is bound to be untrue. One that is not simple cannot be utilized. ― Paul Valéry, Analects, 1970 The Philosophy of “As If” with Kwame Anthony Appiah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec80Gtqrj48 […]

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Pinar (2021) Indexical traces of the real: Teaching in the techno-nation state

Header image: KF in Dall-E AAACS 2021 Keynote Address William Pinar and Ying Ma (@7:22) “If historical colonialism was an appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources,” Couldry and Mejias (2019, 85) explain, “data colonialism can be understood as an appropriation of social resources … [that] operates in ways that replicate relations re-create a colonizing form […]

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Mark Carney (2020) The Reith Lectures

Header image: KF in Dall-E Today, the subjective approach to value has spread widely. Market value is taken to represent intrinsic value, and if a good or activity is not in the market, it is not valued. We’re approaching the extremes of commodification as commerce expands deep into the personal and civic realms 2. From Credit […]

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Forgetness

[F]orgetting is memory’s foe. Memory is sacred and forgetting is something to overcome. Memory is revered and forgetting is disparaged Eichhorn, K. (2019). The end of forgetting: Growing up with social media. (forgiv/getness) I have been doing a lot of reading around the right to be forgotten. It keeps coming back to me, the more […]

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Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, 2002

Two fascinating paragraphs from the ruling of Chamberlain v. Surrey School District No. 36, 2002 [concerning] the attempt of a kindergarten teacher to use picture books depicting families with same-sex parents. The books were part of a list compiled by the provincial association of gay and lesbian educators concerning resources to promote tolerance and counter […]

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Rooney (1982) In and of ourselves we trust

Header image: KF in Dall-E I regularly think about this short story by Andy Rooney that poses the question: why do people do the right thing when nobody is looking? I used it a lot in China to spur discussion in one of my classes but I regularly return to it, usually after a trip to […]

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Doctorow (2020) 2020 Beaverbrook Lecture

Header image: KF in Dall-E Details Digital redlining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_redlining Gartner hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle Competitive compatibility / Adversarial Interoperability Click on the image below for Lincoln Shorts Episode 1: Cory Doctorow, Competitive Compatibility and Interoperators Defense [10 mins]

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Arao & Clemens (2013) From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces

Header image: KF in Dall-E Notes on Arao, B., & Clemens, K. (2013). From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces: a new way to frame dialogue around diversity and social justice. In Landreman, L. (Ed.), The Art of Effective Facilitation: Reflections from Social Justice Educators (pp. 135-150). Stylus Publishing. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b6af3b236099ba883a28b1e/t/5dcc5b2ae2b90a3c5af08fc5/1573673770842/From+Safe+Spaces+to+Brave+Spaces_2013.pdf My short take: Brave space is potentially […]

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Dawson (2021) Surveillance and the weaponisation of academic integrity

Header image: KF in Dall-E Notes from Dawson, P. (2021). Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429324178 Chapter 7: Surveillance and the weaponisation of academic integrity There’s the rub: See Proctorio/Canvas Q&A – TechDay 2020 (Oct 23 2020, California State University, Fullerton) Q: Does Proctorio have robust studies showing that it significantly curbs cheating? A: […]

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Sisyphus

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.” ― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus My new logo for 2020 Peter Singer The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle John Perry Barlow The Pursuit of Emptiness Isaac Asimov A Cult of Ignorance On a serious tangent, see below one of the many […]

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Poetry

Desiderata Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.Avoid loud and aggressive […]

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Pinar (2019) Moving Images of Eternity

Header image: KF in Dall-E (2019) Moving Images of Eternity Preface Intro Education is itself the purpose of our existence. George Grant Intro p9:  Modern science and thought—or modern truth-seeking—has shown us that life is without purpose. 120 George Grant “The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true […]

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Onlife: A Möbius Trip

Header image: KF in Dalle-E I regularly return to an idea I had during one of my courses in 2018. We were looking at a book called Spirals of Inquiry as part of a teacher inquiry study. I piped up and said I didn’t like the title and then I had to explain what I meant. […]