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“Beyond Critical Thinking”
“The skill at unmasking error, or simple intellectual one-upmanship, is not completely without value, but we should be wary of creating a class of self-satisfied debunkers or, to use a currently fashionable word on campuses, people who like to ‘trouble’ ideas.” So says Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, whose reviews and essays I always make a point to read when I come across them.
Art Education Questionnaire
My copies of Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), edited and introduced by Steven Henry Madoff, arrived with today’s mail. Madoff invited me to formulate a questionnaire concerning art education and circulate it among prominent artists. The respondents, who discuss their experiences as both students and teachers, are Ann Hamilton, Dana Schutz, Fred Wilson, Guillermo Kuitca, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Matthew Higgs, Mike Kelley, Paul Chan, Paul Ramírez-Jonas, Piero Golia, Shirin Neshat, and Thomas Bayrle. Madoff_art_school_coverMy introduction and a selection of the artists’ answers are below.
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Eli Thorkelson/Decasia
Just came across the blog decasia: critique of academic culture, which is run by Eli Thorkelson, a graduate student in cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His subject? The anthropology of universities. There are many fascinating posts about higher education: “Against the concept of academic politics“; “Reading as an ethnographic tactic“; “The failed fantasy [...]
