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Goal Displacement | Problem Displacement
Cyphert, Frederick R.; Gant, Walter L. “The Delphi Technique: A Tool for Collecting Opinions in Teacher Education” [1969] Dr. Cypher was Dean of the University of Virginia’s Curry Memorial School of Education and Dr. Gant was Director of the Department … Continue reading
The Right Not to Be Linked
Saw this today at Haiku Bandit Society (and crafted a very haiku-like comment limited to 256 characters) https://haikubanditsociety.blogspot.com/2020/04/vestager-its-not-choice-between.html I hereby link via blog entry to CBC interview with privacy rights expert Brenda McPhail https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/contact-tracing-for-covid-19-risks-erasing-civil-liberties-says-expert-1.5532117 Comparing Canadian and European situations I … Continue reading
intercession
Sowa ayii Sowa aha sowa wa x2 https://www.google.com/search?q=fallen+soldier+lying+on+back+sculpture+bronze+germany+war+memorial&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjbh4igpOHoAhXaXs0KHahrAz8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=fallen+soldier+lying+on+back+sculpture+bronze+germany+war+memorial&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1CvyQJY5tkCYJXcAmgAcAB4AIABVogBgwiSAQIxM5gBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1n&sclient=img&ei=CTKSXpvfINq9tQao1434Aw&bih=850&biw=1573&client=safari&safari_group=9 For the splash page to Sense: Orientations, Meanings, Apparatus there is a picture of the author as a young child against a pink background of the scanned text and with a green … Continue reading
Research Ethics Researching Ethics
Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans – TCPS 2 (2018) https://ethics.gc.ca/eng/tcps2-eptc2_2018_chapter1-chapitre1.html#b Retrieved: April 11, 2020. Where I come from we care. I sign on to these core principles: The guidelines in this Policy are based on the … Continue reading
Word Book World Back
It was originally published under the title Triton. Wesleyan University Press reissued it under the title Trouble on Triton with a forward by Kathy Acker who introduces the reader to the intricacies of Samuel Delany’s prose by way of an … Continue reading
Transduction and Assemblages
I’ve quoted this before but my commentary there remains rather lapidary (“Will to do. Makes do.”) and so here again is Adrian Mackenzie. “Transduction: invention, innovation and collective life” (2003) Technological change is consistently and emphatically represented in the form … Continue reading
Pre-machine Clues to Post-machine Experience
J. David Bolter in Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age distinguishes an epoch of tool use from one of machine use. It is useful to be reminded of such a distinction when the common discourse often conflates tools … Continue reading
Unaddressed: Lament and Laceration
Tucked into a notebook a torn piece of paper with a message totally unrelated to the longish bit about narratology that was the notebook’s subject at that spot… To: bodily fluids were banned by the CIA campaign of disinformation about … Continue reading
Dental Pickings
Arthur Quinn in Figures of Speech: 60 ways to turn a phrase in the section on metonymy provides a Biblical example And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all … Continue reading
Uncover
Lines from Susan Sontag’s “Under the Sign of Saturn” collected in Under the Sign of Saturn gather together in a paragraph about the collapsing of time (which is not the same as “time collapsed”): Benjamin regards everything he chooses to … Continue reading