The Fishbowl

Julia Trovato Professor Dugal Bus 345 17 December 2019 Business in Society with Professor Dugal is unlike any class I have taken so far at the University of Rhode Island. Throughout the course of the semester, we posted and interacted in a “fishbowl”. We formed and wrote in this fishbowl to create u...

11/19/19 By posting in our fishbowls and creating these inner-subjective spaces, we are able to learn a lot about each other. Between all of our individual work and reflections, we are able to get to know one another more and more each time. It is important to read through the work of our classmates...

11/18/19 When I have to do work, especially writing, it is very hard for me to get things accomplished when I have a lot of distractions. Being a business major that enjoys working with numbers, when I have a writing assignment, it takes an extremely large amount of focus to get started on my work. ...

11/14/19 When you said, "it is good to write down all the ideas as they emerge, and later we can cut back" it stuck out to me. When I have assignments with page limits, I have had many times that my first time around I exceeded the limits. While writing, I never cut myself short. If I need to cut my...

11/10/19

As you talk about improvising, I feel this is something we are sometimes doing in our fishbowls. When we choose the worlds for our steps, it is almost like improvising as we form a sentence based around these words.

"please fact-check your virtual products in your fishbowls" 11/9/19: "investigative journalism"- form of journalism where reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest. For example, serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. "instrumentality"- the fact or quality of ser...

"cybernetics and your fishbowls"
11/8/19

"Vilem Flusser"- a czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. His early work was marked by discussion by the influence of existentialism and phenomenology. The later phase of his work was on the philosophy of communication and artistic production

11/07/19

As I continue to experiment with my writing and using the (10+1) steps to express anecdotes, I am continuously forming a better understanding of what all of this means. We are taking the words we find and connecting them to our experiences.

11/7/19:

From doing this project and listening to your advice, I have seen the benefits of taking a break from your work and going back to it. When I did this, after coming back to the work I have done, I had so many new thoughts to add into my work.

11/5/19

Looking at the fishbowl as our groups diary is a very interesting thought. We are reflecting on our selves and our experiences and sharing them with one another. We are doing this together and forming our diaries.

11/3/19

Completing the first (10+1), Integrated networking Structures, I was able to get a whole new understanding of these words. Not only did we explore the specific words, what they mean, and their synonyms, we are connecting ourselves and experiences to these words.

"reflecting mid-way" 11/02/2019 "Multitude" by Hardt and Negri- It is the second installment to a trilogy. This book is about the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common", an alternative political organization of global flows and ex...