[-empyre-] Cathy N. Davidson: "Resolutions for Digital Futures"

[eliza fernbach]

brilliant... 

Tell me what you forget, I will tell you who you are.
                                                                                              - Marc Augé


--- On Mon, 1/5/09, Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> From: Timothy Murray <tcm1 at cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Cathy N. Davidson: "Resolutions for Digital Futures"
> To: "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Monday, January 5, 2009, 10:06 PM
> My empyre resolution is that, together, we build a
> wikipedia/Craig's 
> list of all interdisciplinary courses at all colleges and 
> universities and start making connections across and among
> our 
> different offerings.  The SyllaList would include a place
> for 
> uploading syllabi and would require folksonomy tags and
> would help us 
> all to understand the changes we are making at our
> institutions and 
> would help support us as we try to expand the vision of
> what learning 
> is and what learning does.
> 
> bio:
> --Cathy N. Davidson (US) is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor
> of English 
> and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of 
> Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University.  She is the
> co-founder of 
> HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Advanced
> 
> Collaboratory, or "haystack":  www.hastac.org). 
> She co-administers 
> the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning 
> Competition and is the author, with HASTAC co-founder David
> Theo 
> Goldberg, The Future of Learning (MIT Press, forthcoming
> 2009).  She 
> is also finishing a book tentatively titled The Rewired
> Brain:  The 
> Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age
> (forthcoming, 
> Viking Press).
> -- 
> Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
> Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
> Department of Art and Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
> Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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