Jim Brown's blog

I have had Cathy Davidson's "Collaboration by Difference" blog post bookmarked for a few days now because it offered me so much to think about.

Reading Greg Ulmer's recent ruminations on the Internet Accident, I was reminded of Volkswagen's extremely disturbing car accident commercials.  Ulmer's discussion of the accident draws on Paul Virilio's work:

The CWRL, the Lab I work and teach in, is collecting new media assignments from instructors in an effort to share all the innovative stuff happening in our classrooms.  I thought I'd share my assignment: "Mapping Home."  It uses Google Maps (a tool that is easy to access and easy to use) to get students thinking about borders, landmarks, and cartography.

A new e-journal/magazine has popped up on a couple of listservs, as I thought some HASTAC-ers would be interesting.  It's called Harlot. Here's a description:

Last week, on a different blog, I mused about how teachers and critics can/should deal with speed.  By speed, I mean this: given a cultural moment where texts move instantaneously, how are we to deal with nuance and recontextualization?  We (in the humanities?) often teach students to understand all angles of a controversy/question before joining the conversation.  This is a great approach for academic circles, but how does it work outside of the academy?  I'm conflicted.  I like this model, but I worry that I'm doing my stud

Previously, on one of my other blogs, I wrote about Rivers Cuomo's collaborative song writing project, and I thought HASTAC scholars would be interested in how this project taps into the collaborative ethic of the Web.