In this week we turn to the relationship between perception and attention, thinking through some of the ideas of Roland Bartes in Camera Obscura and Cameron Tonkinwise and Karen Pinkus’ Want Not: A...
Anthropocene / civilization / economics / news / political analysis / political ecology / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 04/11/2012 · Last modified 10/08/2012
“I do not believe that this legislation changes the scientific standards that are taught in our schools or the curriculum that is used by our teachers.” –TN Governor Bill Haslam on the...
civilization / economics / journal / political analysis / science
by chriscrews · Published 04/06/2012 · Last modified 12/14/2018
[Dec 2018 Update – Some broken video links fixed, and note about purged CDC image…] The Politics of AIDS and HIV 1981 is often pointed to as the start of public awareness about...
education / political analysis / science / teaching / technology
by chriscrews · Published 03/30/2012
“Human beings, like any other component or subsystem, must be localized in a system of architecture whose basic modes of operation are probabilistic, statistical. No objects, space, or bodies are sacred in themselves;...
news / Occupy Wall Street / political analysis / science / technology
by chriscrews · Published 03/26/2012
“Ford, we are twelve; oh make us one, Like drops within the Social River; Oh, make us now together run As swiftly as thy shining Flivver. Come, Greater Being, Social Friend, Annihilating...
Reflecting on this week’s reading by John May (Sensing: Preliminary Notes on the Emergence of Statistical-Mechanical Geographic Vision) and Peter Galison (War Against the Center), it is clear that the importance of...
The Adventures of Mr. Chris is a collection of personal reflections, scholarly ruminations, travel adventures, and cultural analysis.
