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Category Archives: edupunk
EDUPUNK professor may face jail time for translating Derrida
Martin Santos just brought this to my attention. To quote boingboing: Horacio Potel, an Argentine philosophy professor at Universidad Nacional de Lanús,, faces criminal charges — and possible jail time — for posting unofficial translations of seminal Jacques Derrida texts … Continue reading
EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 5 (FIN)
EDUPUNk Battle Royale, Part 5 Even if you’re weary, I highly recommend sticking around for the first minute or so. And just remember that when you comment on the bava, we attentively listen—you do have a voice here. Gerry Bayne … Continue reading
EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 4
To steal from the title of the Samuel Beckett reader: “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 4
EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 3
And for your sins, here’s part 3: EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 3 The third installation of this video takes us deeper into the questions surrounding leadership. This is an issue that hits close to home for both Gardner and I, … Continue reading
Wonder Twins activate, form of “Write To Reply”
I just wanted to applaud Tony Hirst and Joss Winn for the amazing work they are doing with Write to Reply. These two British cats did nothing short of re-imagine the possibilities for an open, accessible discourse around documents that … Continue reading
EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 2
EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 2 Thanks to Gerry Bayne for turning this around so quick —I think the next three videos will be coming out sooner than later. I just saw this for the first time minutes ago, and I … Continue reading
Another State of Mind
Another State of Mind, part 6 Note: the sound on the video is out of sync, which is annoying, so all the more reason to get the whole thing and just watch it. As a follow-up to the Heavy Metal … Continue reading
The EDUPUNK Battle Royale, Part 1
Image credit: Tom Woodward’s “Michael Chasen sits on edupunk Santa’s lap and hopes not to suck so much this Xmas” At the EDUCAUSE main conference in Orlando this past October, Gerry Bayne asked Gardner and I if we would be … Continue reading
Twitter Country
Randy Thornton, proprietor of the Metamedia blog, rocks! He recently wrote and performed his own song about Twitter called “Still tweeting 4U”. I love this kinda stuff—this is who we are, damn it! It may be a country song, but … Continue reading
Punk ‘n’ Pie
Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave scene (a majority of them I haven’t … Continue reading