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Culture Travels
On my second trip to New York last week, I finally got a chance to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I’d been dreaming about this for a long time, not only because of its reputation for being one
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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United States Education: A Means to an End
A recent New York Times Op-Ed article titled “Learning as Freedom,” reiterated the necessity for education reform in the United States. I realize the dialog surrounding the subject matter has become t
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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On Procedural Literacy and Locative Media
At the beginning of the year, I took a coding class in the CCT program to gain a valuable professional skill (and, I’ll admit, to learn how to follow the conversations of my programmer friends). With
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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One-Stop-Shop Artifacts & Cultural Models
American society today functions through a fundamental cultural schema Bradd Shore identifies in his book "Culture in Mind" (1996) as the “modularity schema.” This mode of thought is pervasive in post
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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How Do We Explain Fandom?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9Zum7azNIQ Fans have created and interacted together in self-contained bubbles for many years, discreetly taking sick days from work to attend conventions and—after the
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Social Media…Drowning in Politics
It is that time of year again. As presidential candidates name their running partners and campaign advertising becomes harsher by the minute, we also begrudgingly welcome the onslaught of political c
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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On Owning Nature: Part I
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it—if it were not the earth where the same flowers came up every spring…the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same r
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The Second Alyx
Midway through Valve Corporation's Half-Life 2, a PC game, I was accompanied by lively companion rebel Alyx Vance as we fought against the Combine, an alien empire that has taken control of Earth and
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Design As the Invisible Hand
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Image thanks to Flickr user eugene. A model of Shanghai in 2020.[/caption] In December 1943, a structure, known as Building 20, was erected on the main
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Preventing the Rebuilding of Babel: The Challenge of Minority Language Preservation in the European Union
Due to its widely publicized financial crises of late, it’s easy to forget the utterly revolutionary nature of the European Union. Before the economic collapse of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece, the
Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog