Two related posts came across my RSS reader esthis morning, both written by scholars connected the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
David Weinberger writes about how a Google Image search for “Michelle Obama” brings up a clearly racist image as the first result in a post entitled When the crowd is [...]
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The exploration of meaning in education is something that is very near and dear to my heart, especially as we, as a culture, move further and further into the realm of things. I can’t say it much better than Dorothy in her most recent Cat and Girl comic strip:
“Surrounded”
I can’t get enough of Cat [...]
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I am making a big historical jump here (although not necessarily a philosophical or narrative jump), but I am now reading Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, and found this paragraph in a section of the book where she lays out her distinctions between work and labor (concepts I will return to later):
Viewed, however, in their [...]
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If it just so happens that you have not cleared this blog from your RSS stream, this is not a mistake: after some consideration, I have decided to dust off and restart the Smelly Knowledge blog. If you just happen to stumble upon this for the first time, I bid you welcome.
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