Amazing synthesis of ideas about the education technology industrial complex, discourses of access, hidden curriculums (with shout-out to Jean Anyon), and the environmental consequences of tools:
Tale of Two Cities
Article looks at larger issues of gender, criminalization, mental health services and gentrification and how they manifest in the case of Aniah Ferguson
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/18/dont-throw-book-brooklyns-aniah-ferguson/
UESRG Framework-in-progress
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The Message
Jenn’s response to funding schemes:
Cause it’s all about money, ain’t a damn thing funny
You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey
The Physics of Pole
Here is a link to a site about the physics of pole dancing. Some interesting stuff there.
Terra Sacer
From YouTube:
Directed by Alberto Guevara and Elysee Nouvet www.vtape.org
Banned in the United States in the 1960s, but sold throughout the third world well into the 1980s, the pesticide Nemagon and its after effects haunt over 100,000 Nicaraguan agricultural workers and their families. Terra Sacer is a film about the connections between exploited landscapes and bodies, between the politics of environmental and social abandonment. This film focuses on Nemagon victims who are using their remaining strength to fight for recognition and justice.
If language were liquid…
From The Guardian:
The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape
Mimi Sheller: Aluminum Dreams
Free-Range Kids
Here is the link to the article about free-range kids. I am not sure how I feel about this movement from a more critical standpoint. While I believe all kids should be playing outside and fear the ways that parents have limited the mobility of young people today, it is hard to argue with parents who want to keep their children safe, especially in urban areas.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/mother-may
