I meant to mention this in class, but I wanted to share a few thoughts on how to structure (or sequence, or arrange into a syntagm yayy!) a critical essay. A scientific paper in our field typically has the following structure (and you are welcome to use it in this class, if it makes sense…
I’ve heard enough from a sufficient number of people to worry about tomorrow’s deadline for the paper. I am therefore granting an extension on the paper until Sunday at midnight. Please bring all of your materials to class today, and we can have an emergency how-to-develop-an-argument lecture (if needed), or we can do whatever. Also,…
Came across this pretty recently. It kind of reminded me of when Jeff showed us examples of unintended forms of play within games. Yes, wii remotes were intended to be used how this guy is using them physically, but I don’t believe the creators intended them to be reprogrammed to interact with a software program…
I just remembered that I wanted to post the link to that book Among the Thugs I mentioned in the lecture about complex systems. It’s an interesting read of first-hand experience with crowds and violence and mob mentality kind of stuff. Plus, it’s all about hooligans, and who doesn’t love that cuddly bunch?
