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There’s two kinds of scholarship today: there’s Titanic studies and there’s deckchair studies.
— McKenzie Wark
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too
— Thomas Hardy
I’m an academic at an Australian university. I’ve led an educational design team through an institutional LMS transition, and I’m currently Associate Dean International in our Law, Humanities and Creative Arts Faculty.
I’m interested in the assumptions that regulate work, innovation, profit and risk in higher education, and in the way that the system shaped by these assumptions affects those of us working in universities.
As someone once put it in the search that led them here, this is a blog about:
“shared governance consensus bullshit.”
It’s only fitting to be reading this on the anniversary of the first sailing of the RMS Titanic. If you’re not following Kate Bowles, I highly recommend it.
Kate Bowles gave a great Keynote at the Open Education Resources 2019 (OER19) conference in Galway last night. In it she indicates how politicians, economists and even universities themselves measure their growth at the level of imports/exports and even compare it with mining in a cynical way to describe the movement of their educational resources and students.
A slide from
“What a chilling thing to say about young people crossing the world to learn.” –Kate Bowles (in response to the slide immediately above)
The fact that businesses, governments, and even universities themselves would take such an ugly standpoint on teaching and learning is painful. It reminds me that one of the things that I think the open IndieWeb movement gets right is that it is people-centric first and foremost. If you can take care of people at the most base level, then hopefully what gets built upon that base–while still watching it carefully–will be much more ethical.
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the “corporate web”.
As a result of this people-centric vision, I’m seeing a lot less of the sort of ills, unintended consequences, and poor emergent behaviors caused by the drive toward surveillance capitalism within the giant social media silos like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, et al.
I’m reminded of a part of the thesis that Cesar Hidalgo presents in Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order from Atoms to Economies of the idea of the personbyte and what that looks like at a group level, then a corporate level, and I wonder how it may grow to the next level above that. Without ultimately focusing on the person at the bottom of the pyramid however, we may be ethically losing sight of where we’re going and why. We may even be building an edifice that is far more likely to crumble with even worse unintended consequences.
Directed by Steph Green. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. When Paige's long-ago indiscretion threatens to resurface and destroy the family, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves scrambling - and Paige finds herself reevaluating who her parents really are.
Early Christians used the ichthys, a symbol of a fish, to represent Jesus, because the Greek word for fish, ΙΧΘΥΣ Ichthys, could be used as an acronym for "Ίησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ" (Iesous Christos, Theou Huios, Soter), meaning "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour". ❧
A fact that I suspect that few Christians know. I wonder if the “Darwin fish” has a similar acronymization?
Directed by Nicole Kassell. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. Elizabeth completes the last steps of a very personal operation... but at what cost?
I suspected that the dinner might have been more dramatic or touch-and-go.
Directed by Chris Long. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. As Paige deals with last episode's trauma, she sees her mother in a new light... and finds she has inherited some of her parents' skills. Plus, has Oleg reached his breaking point with Stan?
Directed by Chris Long. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Dylan Baker, Brandon J. Dirden. In the season 4 finale, Elizabeth & Philip race against the FBI to retrieve a mysterious package. Paige finally begins considering whether or not she would like to enter the family business.
Directed by Chris Long. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Brandon J. Dirden, Costa Ronin. After witnessing Elizabeth kill two men, Paige trades in church for training sessions with mom. First, self defense. Second could tear the family apart. The beginning of the end for Paige and Matthew looms.
