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Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Steven Bialer and Patti Smith, July 1978
No full textMusician, poet, and author Patti Smith sits on a bed in a hotel room in July 1978. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman as part of a session for "Unicorn Times," an alternative performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C. Steven Bialer, the Design Director for "Unicorn Times," is seated on the bed next to Smith
Steven Garber
No full textSteven Garber speaks on the importance and value of truth.
Steven Garber is the principal of The Washington Institute for Faith, Vocation & Culture, which is focused on reframing the way people understand life, especially the meaning of vocation and the common good. A consultant to foundations, corporations and educational institutions, he is a teacher of many people in many places. The author of The Fabric of Faithfulness: Weaving Together Belief and Behavior, and Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good, he is also a contributor to the books, Faith Goes to Work: Reflections from the Marketplace, and Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalogue. He lives with his wife Meg in Virginia
Steven Yedinak Interview
No full textLTC (RET) Steven M. Yedinak commissioned in the U. S. Army Infantry in 1963 and subsequently spent 26 years in Special Forces and Airborne Infantry. He served two combat tours in Vietnam (1966-67 & 1971-1972), and started the Mobile Guerrilla Force. He is the author of Hard to Forget: An American with the Mobile Guerrilla Force in Vietnam (Random House, 1998). He retired from the Army in 1989
Gamification is broken. An interview with Steven Poole
No full textSteven Poole is the author of Trigger Happy (2000. New York, NY: Arcade Publish), Unspeak (2006. New York, NY: Grove Press), and You Aren’t What You Eat (2012. In press). He has written extensively on books, culture, and videogames for The Guardian and other publications
Accounting for taste: conversation, categorisation and classification in sensory judging.
Get PDFThe session I will present at the mini STS conference arises from my fieldwork for my PhD in Technology Enhanced Learning where I am looking at the processes of learning and practising sensory judging. My fieldwork was in three stages: participant observation of: 1 - a blended face-to-face/online course in beer judging, 2 – taking the online multiple-choice style guide exam and then the tasting exam 3 – course participants practising sensory evaluation as judges at the UK national homebrew competition. In considering sensory evaluation, in particular taste, I draw extensively on contemporary work by established STS scholars. For example Law notes that if we want to think about the messes of reality at all then we’re going to have to teach ourselves to think, to practise, to relate, and to know in new ways. We will need to teach ourselves to know some of the realities of the world using methods unusual to or unknown in social science. For example? Here are some possibilities. Perhaps we will need to know them through the hungers, tastes, discomforts, or pains of our bodies. These would be forms of knowing as embodiment (Law, 2004, p. 2) Other considerations of tasting within STS include those of Latour (2004, p. 123), Gomart and Hennion (1999); Hennion (2004, 2007); Mol (2008, 2011); Mol and Law (2004); Teil and Hennion (2004) and also contemporary work with Annemarie Mol by Anna Mann (2011, 2012 ; 2011) At the core of this course, practice and my investigation is the classification system used and its consequences – following the “ethnography of classification systems” and “information infrastructures” of Bowker and Star (1999) and Star (1999). Bowker and Star note that: Many scholars have seen categories as coming from an abstract sense of “mind”, little anchored in the exigencies of work or politics. The work of attaching things to categories, and the ways in which those categories are ordered into systems, is often overlooked (except by theorists of Language like Harvey Sacks 1975, 1992). (Bowker & Star, 1999, p. 286) I am therefore taking a particular interest in the conversational aspects of interaction as well as my extensive fieldnotes and documents. Of particular interest is the potential of working with the ethnomethodological orientation that underpins both actor-network theory (ANT) and the approach to analysing conversation known as membership category analysis (MCA). I am particularly interested in exploring how the conventions of MCA would be shaped and changed through their consideration as a “methods assemblage” (Law, 2004) and from a praxiographic approach to fieldwork. A departure point for this is the assertion by ethnomethodologists/conversation analysts Ester and Heglin that the scope of MCD inquiry may extend beyond the traditional sociological domains. Is there any scholarly activity, indeed any human activity earned out in language, that does not entail describing, judging, and inferring, to which membership categorization (extended to things other than persons) is not applicable? (1992, pp. 263-264) By seeking to extend a consideration of classification-in-interaction to incorporate non-human classifications this is substantially influenced by the work of Lucy Suchman (1987, 2007) who extended the better known aspect of Harvey Sacks’ work on sequential analysis of conversation to take into account the interactional and conversational turns of a photocopier’s display and other aspects of human-computer interaction. Early questions I will explore include what happen to categorical concepts such as “standard relational pairs” (SRPs) when there is not a pair but a complex network of relationships evoked in a category? And how could ANT contribute its particular development of the ethnomethodological approaches to this aspect of ethnomethodological enquiry? As my research relies on sensory experience I see this as an opportunity for experiential participation, as well as presenting some of the methods used and data gathered I will include elements of data generation through inviting conference participants to experience the processes of sensory analysis and categorisation of some example beers as a potential site and setting to be enrolled in my research project
Steven Pinker on language and thought
No full textEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThis video presents an exclusive preview of Steven Pinker's book: the stuff of thought. The author looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old one
Steven Pinker on language and thought
No full textEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThis video presents an exclusive preview of Steven Pinker's book: the stuff of thought. The author looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old one
Steven Pinker on language and thought
No full textEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThis video presents an exclusive preview of Steven Pinker's book: the stuff of thought. The author looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old one
Steven Pinker on language and thought
No full textEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::LinguísticaThis video presents an exclusive preview of Steven Pinker's book: the stuff of thought. The author looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. For Steven Pinker, the brilliance of the mind lies in the way it uses just two processes to turn the finite building blocks of our language into infinite meanings. The first is metaphor: we take a concrete idea and use it as a stand-in for abstract thoughts. The second is combination: we combine ideas according to rules, like the syntactic rules of language, to create new thoughts out of old one
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