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Science should not assume that people are dead; nor should it help to choke them to death with categories that do not reveal the rich lives and struggles of all who appear left behind.

Gramsci

#science

It is acknowledged that agency and sustenance, these two facets of identity, indeed of life, thrown into relief by the technology/gender relation, are both important. But our culture has cast them in a reverse relation to the one they should ideally have. Agency should serve sustenance, engineering should be directed towards a sustainable everyday life, production should facilitate reproduction. Instead, family life is drained by the workplace, everyday life is exploited and deformed by Technology, and the gift of human agency risks becoming an arrogant masculine project of transcendence that owes no responsibility to care.

Gender and Technology in the Making, by Cynthia Cockburn and Susan Ormrod.

A stereotype is not 'true' but it is 'real'.

Gender and Technology in the Making, by Cynthia Cockburn and Susan Ormrod.

#gender feminism technology

The 'woman driver' cliche, so often ringing in our ears, helps to produce an unconfident woman driver and contributes to the making of men in the persona of 'driver', a driving person.

In Gender and Technology in the Making, by Cynthia Cockburn and Susan Ormrod.

#gender technology woman driver

The most trivial objects of consumption both make up the fabric of our meaningful life and connect this intimate and mundane world to great fields of social contestation.

By Donald Slater, in Consumer Culture and Modernity.

#consumption #subjectivity #modern life

Journal articles have more space for synthesis, but conference papers emphasize more on original work.

Richard Anderson.

Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I'll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody, and it's pitch dark, and I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to me in the future, and I get so scared I want to scream.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

#haruki murakami #fiction

Anyway, what I wanted to tell you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, is that all I've been doing since I came to this factory is work, work, work. Like an ant. Like the village blacksmith. Have I made myself clear so far?

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.

#haruki murakami #fiction

Distinct from fetishism’s focus on form, which stipulates a fixation on the materiality of the (presumably) passive object itself as a source of power, a charismatic object derives its power experientially and symbolically through the possibility or promise of action: what is important is not what the object is but what it promises to do.

By Morgan G. Ames, in Charismatic Technology.

#OLPC #Charisma

The point is this: By monitoring myself, I can create an illuminating, empowering personal statement that attunes me to where self and subject are intertwined.

Alan Peshkin, in In Search of Subjectivity - On One’s Own.

#subjectivity

All ethnography is part philosophy and a good deal of the rest is confession.

Geertz

#ethnography

... time on task is a major indicator for learning and that deliberate practice is an efficient way to promote expertise.

Chapter 7: Effective Teaching, in How People Learn (expanded edition.)

#learning

Exclusion, whether based on gender, race, class, or any other category, is a way of insulting and injuring people.

In “I Won’t Learn from You” and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. By Herbert Kohl.

Sloppy habits of reference lead not only to loose thinking but to the continued avoidance of dealing with social, racial, and gender issues that must be solved in order for this society to approximate its claims to democracy.

In “I Won’t Learn from You” and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. By Herbert Kohl.

I want to be myself, neither minority nor majority, and rejected both the pressure to assimilate and to separate.

In “I Won’t Learn from You” and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. By Herbert Kohl.

Learning how to not-learn is an intellectual and social challenge; sometimes you have to work very hard at it.

“I Won’t Learn from You” and Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment. By Herbert Kohl.

We have to begin our answer with old theory and with familiar but necessary preoccupations. We have to enquire into the matter of determination, and of the status of ‘the technological’ as a category. We have, for example, to enquire into the nature of power, and the degrees of freedom both to shape and to resist technology. We have to discuss communication, information and mediation as process. We have to think symbolically as well as materially. We have to confront history and historiography, theory and methodology, both in the context of adjudicating between evolution and revolution, and in framing our judgments about cause and effect. And we have to engage with specific discourses, in media theory, in the social studies of technology, in their recent efforts to comprehend the tortured interfaces between institutions, technologies, texts, and uses.

What’s New about New Media? By Roger Silverstone

#research

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