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Back to the States for family. This is also an act of cultural values, culture being the subject I profess to teach.
Finishing the final draft of my book. An earlier draft got a foreword by programmer Richard Gabriel and anthropologist Jenny Quillen and had the working title, American Currents: Re-presencing culture and communication in a postdigital age.
The book is now about cultural de/codification but does not claim to critique but to tease out and point forwards. It still departs from the work of French philosopher Bernard Stiegler who is adamant about the need to integrate interpretive text-based work with the cultivation of learning how to live, especially among youth.
De/codification is to serve infraculture – creativity for not just the arts but for basic needs. It also extends over half a decade’s experience in networked learning, designing learning with digital components, while playing with local problems of how to reach out to a range of learners including those in greatest need. Learning is an experience everyone should have.
I continue to do action research to develop the courses that I teach and continue to iterate the tools used in class, repurposing old and lighter tools and content sharing systems like wikis and the small web.
The phenomenology and networked learning book with my chapter on the hermeneutics of (cultural) traces has been published. I wrote an encyclopedia entry on Bernard Stiegler which just came out in the Encyclopedia of Postdigital Science and Education.
Finally, I am considering how to return to the poetry of life as an adult. In my youth I was a poet and read at the Poetry Project, preserved at the Library of Congress. A Poetry Society chapbook review is here.
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