701 research outputs found

    Review Randy Fertel: A Taste for Chaos

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    Book review of Randy Fertel\u27s A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisatio

    OTOH

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    Contains the essay “Unsettled Feelings". Funded by SSHRC Institutional Explore Grant. Design by Chloe Brumwell & Randy Lee Cutler.Unsettle

    Coat Cooke & Joe Poole | Coat Cooke & Rainer Wiens: Reviews

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    Coat Cooke album reviews by Randy Raine-Reusch. Coat Cooke (sax); Joe Poole (drums); Rainer Wiens (guitar)

    Interview with Randy Stoecker, author, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement

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    It’s common for colleges in the U.S. to have service learning programs of one kind or another. These are sometimes criticized as being liberal or even radical endeavors — especially if “social justice” language is employed. But what if these are, in fact, conservative programs at their heart, ones that, in the context of the corporatized university, are furthering the neoliberal project and inhibiting the development of better social welfare policies? Listen to our interview with Randy Stoecker as he discusses his book, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement (Temple University Press, 2016), for a first-hand critique as well as some thoughts on how we might all better serve our students — and the communities they would engage with

    The BP Oil Spill and the Bounty of Plaquemines Parish

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    The source of 25 to 30 percent of America’s seafood, the Mississippi River Delta’s cornucopian world is now uncertain. And yet, even if shrimp, oysters, and finfish are unaffected by the BP Oil Spill—a big if—one can already reflect on the passing of the culture once built upon gathering them. For almost three centuries, levees made life possible along the riverbanks and in the wetlands beyond. Those same levees also ensured the wetlands would eventually melt away into the Gulf. Cutting off the silt left behind during annual river inundations subjected the fragile land to erosion. Sulfur, natural gas, and oil production companies dug twenty thousand miles of canals to gain more direct routes to their fields and to pump out their mineral wealth. This caused salt-water intrusion that killed off plant life and caused more erosion. The world that sustained my Plaquemines ancestors was less subject to collapse following disasters not only because the ecosystem before the wetlands’ ongoing loss was then more vibrant, complex, and robust; but also because their lives, especially their culinary lives, were more vibrant, complex, and robust. Life was hard, but when it came to putting food on the table, life followed the seasons.</jats:p

    Jung’s Red Book, improvisation, and the mētic spirit

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    ABSTRACTUnderstandingThe Red Book as an improvisation and Jung as an improviser offers a new approach to understanding the active imagination and the analytic method that emerged from it. Such an approach uncovers the mētic spirit – the spirit of polytropic intelligence – that informsThe Red Bookand the archetypal figure of Hermes/Mercurius/Trickster that informs all improvisations and will come to dominate Jung’s career. The rhetoric of improvisation inThe Red Bookconveys that, uncontaminated by the directed consciousness or ego, personae and imagoes arise spontaneously from his unconscious and control him, not he them. Such gestures privilege non-rational ways of making art and knowing the self and world, part and parcel of the paradigm shift that characterizes the 20th century. Jung’s Red Book is on the leading edge of that effort to shift from objective rationality to a rationality that can embrace subjective elements: the unconscious and the irrational, not just the “broad highways” but also the “back alleys” of human experience.</jats:p

    A Triumph of Preservation

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    Reflections 1979

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    The 1979 issue of Reflections is edited by Randy Waters with Michele Barale and Joyce Compton Brown serving as faculty advisers. Cover art and photography is by Les Brown. Author biographies are included on a contributors page at the conclusion of the issue. Award winners of the student literary context include: Randy Waters, Debbie Drayer, and Susan Sheilds.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/reflections/1005/thumbnail.jp

    Species suitability guide for Colorado

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    Compiled by Randy Moench, data from the Colorado State Forest Nursery, Fort Collins, Colorado

    Reconsidering Randy Shilts: examining the reportage of America's AIDS chronicler

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    2013 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.The role of openly-gay reporter and author Randy Shilts (1951-1994) is examined related to his use of journalistic practices and places him on a continuum of traditional reporting roles as considered in the context of twentieth century philosophers Walter Lippmann and John Dewey. Reporter functions demonstrated by Shilts are examined, including those dictated by expectations of either strong journalistic influence over society and media consumers, or those more aligned with democratic practices where education and participation emphasize strong roles for society and media consumers. Using a biographical approach including 17 primary source interviews of former colleagues, critics, sources and family/friends, the examination of Shilts work as both a reporter and noted author is presented as being heavily influenced by his forthcoming attitudes about disclosure of his sexual orientation from the start of his career and his desire to explain or unpack aspects of gay culture, and ultimately the AIDS crisis, to heterosexual audiences. Careful examination of the posthumous critique of Shilts' work - including his construction of Patient Zero - is undertaken. The study concludes that Shilts fully engaged a Lippmann-esque approach embodied in an authoritarian role for journalism that sought to change the world in which it was offered, and did so perhaps most influentially during the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in America
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