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Feeling pedagogy’s affective and material flashpoints in the science fiction animation \u27Zima Blue\u27” in Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1: Arts and Humanities-Based Rethinkings of Interconnection, Technologies, and Education
No full textInformed by Julietta Singh’s call for a dehumanist education to defy calcified colonial desires of human mastery and classification, this chapter takes a new materialist approach to excavate pedagogy’s flashpoints present in “Zima Blue,” an episode from the 2019 science fiction animated series, Love, Death & Robots. The episode follows Zima, a brilliant and cybernetically augmented artist whose work focuses on a specific shade of blue before the unveiling of their final masterpiece. The narrative ontologically unsettles human/nonhuman boundaries and demonstrates how this unsettling can disrupt subject-object distinctions taken for granted in contemporary educational habits despite the increasing entanglement of artificial intelligence and similar technologies. The chapter addresses three flashpoints: the material pull of the color blue, how Zima troubles the presumed educational subject, and the unruliness of pedagogical transformation. I suggest that paying attention to the affective and material dimensions of Zima’s blurred bodily distinctions between machine, artist, and artist-machine provokes the emergence of pedagogical flashpoints forefronting ethical and entangled ways of relating to others and things in the world
glass skies
Get PDFEliana Alzate is a sophomore majoring in English writing and computer science with a minor in media studies. On campus, she’s the managing editor of The DePauw and a video streaming specialist for Media Services. During her free time, she loves singing karaoke and writing poems in her secret journals
I sit down at the dinner table to die
Get PDFMadeleine Cruz is an aspiring writer who claims to be from Chicago but may be lying. She likes to read; her favorite author is Ursula K. Le Guin. She is frequently tired and only sometimes actually asleep
SQLGenius
No full textIn the realm of modern software development, the efficient generation of Structured Query Language (SQL) statements from a database schema, user requirements, and feature specifications is a critical task. SQLGenius introduces an innovative approach to streamline the process of generating SQL queries by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). Through a user-friendly web application, users input database schemas, feature specifications, and requirements in natural language. SQLGenius will generate the SQL query for developers and non-technical users to get insights from data. This automated process significantly accelerates query creation, benefiting both developers and non-technical users. The project has the potential to revolutionize database interaction, offering an efficient and accessible solution that bridges the gap between natural language and technical SQL code. This application can be used in industry and in university for teaching students
Walking on a Tight Rope
Get PDFMiyu Aoki is a sophomore economics and physics major from Yokohama, Japan. Usually realistic and occasionally political, Miyu’s poems center around finding herself in the American landscape. Her hobbies include knitting, snowboarding, and exploring the Greencastle community through volunteering
Sonic Directions to the Urban Student: Lyotard, the Megalopolis, and Not Listening as Pedagogy
No full textThis article contributes to research on Lyotard and sounds by taking up the urban as an ensemble that is immediately a matter of sound and education, approaching pedagogy not as a tactic but as a sonic mode of and relation to thought. It begins by exploring the sounding state of the contemporary urban environment as it’s organised around the production and circulation of information and knowledge. Hearing and listening in this urban setting are privatised such that the possibility of sonic interruptions is foreclosed. The article turns next to Jean-François Lyotard’s writing on the urban, which positions urbanism as a system that demands exchange and communication and as a social form that doesn’t avoid or repress interruptions, but rather consumes and absorbs them as sources of new accumulation. Connecting Lyotard’s urbanism with his work on writing and sound, the article then articulates three forms of sonic pedagogy: hearing, listening, and not listening. In this pedagogical schema, the primary problem of the urban today is that hearing and listening dominate at the expense of not listening. This configuration positions students as deficient adults who must grow up as quickly as possible, thereby depriving the student of the ability to be and remain a student. The sonic pedagogies developed in the article, then, have the potential to resist the privatising listening practices of the urban that compel opacity into transparency and to potentially reconfigure the urban around exposure to thought and childhood
The Church, missionaries, and the construction of black masculinities in Eastern Zimbabwe, in the first half of the 20th century in Remembering Colonialism in Zimbabwe
No full textThis chapter explores the processes of inventing black male identities – masculinities, manhood, manliness, and men’s roles – and the role played by missionaries and black converts. It reveals how men talked about themselves in the process of striving for superior performative manliness. In doing so, the chapter avoids the historical blind spot of focusing on what men did to women rather than the actions of both male and female figures in shaping masculine identities. Instead, it argues that both women and men were ‘engendered and gendering subjects.’ The paper is based on the AMEC publications targeting the black converts, especially the African church magazine Umbowo WeHuKritsu
Recent Archaeological Work in the Territory of Castiglione del Lago
Get PDFSince 2015, the Trasimeno Regional Archaeological Project (TRAP) has been conducting research in the territory of Castiglione del Lago (PG). Born from the collaboration between Italian and American researchers, together with the Municipality of Castiglione del Lago, the project intends to bring to light the archaeological heritage of the area, in particular from the Roman era, and make it accessible to the public. The research has three components: the development of a historical GIS of the territory, the excavation of selected sites and the establishment of a new archaeological museum in Castiglione del Lago. The work presents a preliminary set of GIS maps indicating the history of the settlement in the region, followed by a summary of the first four years of excavation at the Villa Gioiella-Vaiano site. The villa, dating back to Roman times, was occupied from the 2nd century BC. at the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 4th century. A.D. The excavations focused on the thermal complex and on a large building which is proposed to be identified as a nymphaeum
Dal 2015 il Progetto Archeologico Regionale del Trasimeno (TRAP) conduce ricerche nel territorio di Castiglione del Lago (PG). Nato dalla collaborazione tra ricercatori italiani e americani, insieme con il Comune di Castiglione del Lago, il progetto intende portare alla luce il patrimonio archeologico del territorio, in particolare di epoca romana, e renderlo accessibile al pubblico. La ricerca ha tre componenti: lo sviluppo di un GIS storico del territorio, lo scavo di siti selezionati e l’istituzione di un nuovo museo archeologico a Castiglione del Lago. Il lavoro presenta una serie preliminare di mappe GIS che indicano la storia dell’insediamento nella regione, cui segue una sintesi dei primi quattro anni di scavo presso il sito di Villa Gioiella-Vaiano. La villa, di età romana, fu occupata dal II secolo a.C. alla fine del III o all’inizio del IV sec. d.C. Gli scavi si sono concentrati sul complesso termale e su un grande edificio che si propone di identificare come un ninfe
