Shields, WTF?
I honestly have no idea what David Shields is on about. I really tried hard to read his essay with an open mind but I just couldn’t understand any of it. Why is the novel dead? What is an “anti-novel”?… Continue Reading
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The Age of the Essay
Paul Graham’s “The Age of the Essay” resonated strongly with me. Not only that, it actually made me quite angry at my high school for forcing me to write all of those pointless essays. It wasn’t even like you had… Continue Reading
Network (Il)literacy
“Network literacy means linking to what other people have written and inviting comments from others, it means understanding a kind of writing that is a social, collaborative process rather than an act of an individual in solitary. It means learning… Continue Reading
What’s Mine is Mine (And Yours… Sometimes)
No matter how many simplified five minute videos on the subject of creative commons – explained using “cool” digitalised graphics and animation and soundtracked to easily digestible Muzak or Fat Boy Slim aimed at “young people” – I watch, I… Continue Reading