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...
“A contagion of fear has infected campus, and the successive, endless nature of bomb threat-related notifications and evacuations have amplified the hysteria, with the new security measures only lending credence to the fears…students...
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...
economics / education / Occupy Wall Street / political analysis / prison-industrial complex / technology
by chriscrews · Published 03/31/2012 · Last modified 04/03/2012
So I ran into one of those ironies of ironies this evening while working on a project. I pose this to my readers as a question: what would you do? So here’s...
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;...
The Adventures of Mr. Chris is a collection of personal reflections, scholarly ruminations, travel adventures, and cultural analysis.
