{"id":264,"date":"2012-11-17T12:04:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.montclair.edu\/crdirector\/?p=264"},"modified":"2019-05-20T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:07:03","slug":"catching-up-with-the-zeitgeist-finally-by-neil-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/2012\/11\/17\/catching-up-with-the-zeitgeist-finally-by-neil-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with the Zeitgeist…finally! – by Neil Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CRC<\/a> has been so busy for the past six months producing our critically-acclaimed one-hour documentary on The Scientific Imagination<\/a> that we have fallen behind in our annotated readings<\/strong>. [Not an excuse…a reality.]<\/p>\n

So, herewith a curated selection<\/strong> for your interest prior to archiving into our Web-Bibliography\/Living Document.<\/a><\/p>\n

– The “buzz” on technology in the classroom<\/strong>, and the concomitant blurring of information with knowledge<\/strong>, has become significantly more noisy of late: Learning How to Learn<\/a>, by Neil Baldwin, The Teaching Times in Higher Education, I.2, Spring 2012; Search Gets Lost<\/a>, by Anthony Grafton, The Nation, May 29, 2012; The Trouble with Online Education<\/a>, by Mark Edmundson, The New York Times, July 19, 2012; Don’t Confuse Technology with College Teaching<\/a>, by Pamela Hieronymi, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 2012; Future of Data: Encoded in DNA<\/a>, by Robert Lee Hotz, The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2012; In Defense of the Living, Breathing Professor<\/a>, Adam F. Falk, The Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2012; Back to the Future: Will distance ed be the future of higher ed?<\/strong> by Cynthia Eaton, AFT on Campus, September\/October 2012; For Better and for Worse, Technology Use Alters Learning Styles, Teachers Say<\/a>, by Matt Richtel, The New York Times, November 1, 2012; \u00a0Hey, Academic Writers, You Can Have Style and Substance<\/a>, by Julie Dalley, The Teaching Times in Higher Education, III.1, Fall 2012; Face Time at the MLA Convention<\/strong> [launching the MLA Commons<\/em>], by Rosemary G. Feal, \u00a0MLA Newsletter, Fall 2012; Highlights of the Tenth Anniversary Report, by the New Media Coalition Horizon Project, Fall 2012.<\/p>\n

– These fascinating, timely new\/forthcoming books from university presses<\/strong> caught our eye as pertinent to the mission of the CRC: Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness<\/em>, by Jean-Luc Marion (Stanford University Press); \u00a0Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting<\/a>, by Sianne Ngai (Harvard University Press); The Total Work of Art in European Modernism<\/a>, by David Roberts (Cornell University Press); Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks<\/strong>, by Tony D. Sampson (University of Minnesota Press); The Digital Condition<\/a>, by Rob Wilkie (Fordham University Press); and a dynamic new journal series from Northwestern University Press: FlashPoints<\/em>, IDIOM<\/em>, and LitZ<\/em>.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Four new Web sites<\/strong> that CRC friends will definitely want to visit: The Creativity Center at the Plains Art Museum<\/strong> in Fargo, North Dakota; The Motion Bank<\/strong>, a new four-year project of The Forsyth Company; The Agency of Unrealized Projects<\/strong>; and The Journal for Artistic Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– A forthcoming conference at the Beinecke Library<\/strong> of Yale University, April 26-27, 2013, free & open to the public, registration required: Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the 21st Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– A lively debate [still open for comments]<\/strong> about Walter Benjamin’s seminal 1936 Work of Art<\/em> essay and the perennial question of “The Aura” on New Media Narratives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– And last but definitely<\/em> not least, a visionary book<\/strong> that has been out for a while but only just came to my attention, thankfully; imagine my surprise when I found a citation from my<\/em> book, Edison: Inventing the Century<\/em>, on p. 69 of Rhythm Science, by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid<\/a> (MIT Press\/Mediaworks, 2004).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CRC has been so busy for the past six months producing our critically-acclaimed one-hour documentary on The Scientific Imagination that we have fallen behind in our annotated readings. [Not an excuse…a reality.] So, herewith a curated selection for your interest prior to archiving into our Web-Bibliography\/Living Document. – The “buzz” on technology in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-director-s-essay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/1107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/creative-research-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}