Category: notes
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The Hashtag Syllabus: Part Three
In The Future of the Library: From Electric Media to Digital Media Robert K. Logan and Marshall McLuhan, you can find this passage from Chapter 9: The Compact Library and Human Scale: As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, I (McLuhan) encountered a library in the English Department that had immense advantages. I never…
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The Hashtag Syllabus: Part Two
Last week I finally uploaded a bibliography of just under 150 items from the Leddy Library that could be found on the BlackLivesCDNSyllabi that has been circulating on Twitter since July 5th. In this post, I will go into some technical detail why it took me so long to do this. For the most part,…
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Ex Libris
Last week, as Europe staggered from the implications of the Brexit referendum, I was in Denmark on vacation with most of my nights free to read about the Existentialists and how their lives were torn asunder by the violence we now call history. I enjoyed my copy of At the Existentialist Cafe very much and…