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Links Harvest: novels, narrative, BAE
Narrative and novels as models for social relations and as simulations of economic approaches. First in a series of BBC4 radio programs on what the novelist’s imagination can offer sociological research on place. Settings: the rural idyll, the city, and the suburb. “Once you’ve restricted yourself to information that turns up in Google searches, you …
Digital History Hacks
William Turkel, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Ontario, runs a great blog, “Digital History Hacks: Methodology for the infinite archive.” I first ran across his blog last year via a couple of his research-related posts, the kind of “how to succeed at grad school” material that I continue to scarf …
With the greatest of respect to Christians and the respect to anybody to believe in what they want to believe in, you can’t base a rational argument upon your supposition of what the creator of the universe likes or doesn’t like: that is simply not rational. –= Sardinian Connection =–: Alan Moore interview [4]
You will have to understand that the logic of success is radically different from the logic of vocation. The logic of what our society means by “success” supposedly leads you ever upward to any higher-paying job that can be done sitting down. The logic of vocation holds that there is an indispensable justice, to yourself …
You will be told also – ignoring our permanent dependence on food, clothing, and shelter – that you live in a “knowledge-based economy,” which in fact is deeply prejudiced against all knowledge that does not produce the quickest possible return on investment. Wendell Berry – 2007 Commencement Address: Bellarmine University
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Notes – The Book, The Internet, Literature
First heard of the “Is Google Making Us Stupid/Killing Literature” foomfahrah via this Mark Hurst post and this follow-up. Kevin Kelly was quite a player in the debate also, here and here, and all the above links will let you read all sides to your heart’s desire. Clay Shirky’s post questioning the “cult of literature” …
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I do not have — nor have I ever had — a Facebook account. And yet, mysteriously, I still have friends who know my relationship status and what movies I like. Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Bonus Post: An Author Who is Proud to Admit that he Sucks at E-Mail
The only thing you get to do in this world is choose what a good life is and then aim for it. But that requires being opinionated. Every day you are choosing what’s a good life for you. Five signs that your career is about to get vapid » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk
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