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[Carissa Sousa]

10/29/19

"What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the mathematical model is an image or picture of reality painted with logical symbols instead of with words, sounds or watercolors." ~ John L. Casti

[Carissa Sousa]

10/30/19

Non-Cooperation
-Failure or refusal to cooperate, especially as a form of protest.

[Carissa Sousa]

10/31/19

'The Mind as Passion' (Susan Sontag)
• "This study provides a critical introduction to her essays and fiction, illustrating how her work is shaped by her role as a public intellectual within the New York tradition."

[Carissa Sousa]

11/2/19

Multitude by Hardt and Negri
• By post-Marxist philosophers
• "Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order."

[Carissa Sousa]

11/4/19

Anecdotal Theory by Jane Gallop
"Jane Gallop argues that all theory is bound up with stories and urges theorists to pay attention to the 'trivial,' quotidian narratives that theory all too often represses."

[Carissa Sousa]

11/7/19

Paulo Freire “creating history as possibility”
• Brazilian educator and philosopher
• Was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy
• Critical pedagogy is a teaching approach inspired by critical theory and other radical philosophies, which attempts to help students question and challenge posited "domination," and to undermine the beliefs and practices that are alleged to dominate.

[Carissa Sousa]

11/8/19

"The new is terrifying. Not because it is this way and not another way, but because it is new.” Vilem Flusser
• Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. 
• Wrote his work in many different languages
• Influenced by existentialism and phenomenology

Cybernetics
• Cybernetics is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory systems—their structures, constraints, and possibilities
• The science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things

[Carissa Sousa]

11/9/19

Fact-checking is known as "investigative journalism”
• Deeply investigating a single topic of interest
• Systematic
• In-depth
• Accountability

“instrumentality”
• The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency

[Carissa Sousa]

12/2/19

'technical images’ (Vilem Flusser)

Technical images:
• Images created by apparatuses, they are difficult to decode since their significance is directly reflected on their surface.

Vilem Flusser:
• Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist. 
• Wrote his work in many different languages
• Influenced by existentialism and phenomenology

[Carissa Sousa]

12/1/19

“voguing”
• Dance to music in such a way as to imitate the characteristic poses struck by a model on a catwalk
• Originated in the late 1980s
• Evolved out of the Harlem Ballroom scene of late 1960s
• Highly stylized