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Re: close reading, open composition

digital_sextant — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:25:00 -0000

I'll ponder this in more detail on my blog when I finish the book, but your post here could serve as an apt response to Mark Bauerlien's THE DUMBEST GENERATION.

Re: what do you mean I agree with Mark Bauerlein?

digital_sextant — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:18:53 -0000

In Film Studies, I'd say there are two answers to that problem. On one side, you have David Bordwell, who prods us to return to the archive. We're not to ask what Citizen Kane means, but why/how Welles managed to use rack focus to such effect. On the other side, you have Robert B. Ray and friends (bias exposed -- RBR was one of my profs and on my diss committee) who turn Barthesian, looking for new ways to understand cinema in the poetics of personal experience. We're to write about the magical moment when Bogey strides across a room.

I find myself, as someone who can't help but write as if assembling a database, doing both simultaneously.

I like the new layout, btw.

Re: pedagogy and the cms

digital_sextant — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:56:11 -0000

Moodle allows the owner of the course to assign any number of permissions (such as full-editor) to all members of the course. Perhaps doing so would allow for more of the meadow aspect, if defining projects for oneself and one's peers involved actually creating them and posting them?