If you want to locate the exact time and place at which, by example, the right to privacy of the children of the rich and powerful was surrendered willingly by the trend-setting leader of the free world and his fashionable spouse, you need look no further than “the first hundred days” of the Kennedy Administration. […]
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July 16th, 2013 | Tags: Brill’s CONTENT, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Steven Brill | Category: From the Archives, News Commentary | Leave a comment Our newly renovated neighborhood library, a mashup of late 19th- and early 21st-century architectural styles,offers 40 computer stations and 10 loaner laptops with online access and printing, free wifi, DVDs and CDs. A perfect example of the postmodern library. It even has books. […] July 12th, 2013 | Tags: New York Public Library, postmodern, Stapleton Library, Staten Island | Category: Digital Life, Digital Technology, Personal History | 4 comments It reassures me to read spontaneous, underivative variations on vintage jeremiads of mine in a major journal of post-secondary education and a prominent mainstream multi-subject website. Perhaps I wasn’t as crazy as people thought when I had the temerity to offer such cautions in the midst of the photo boom of the ’70s and ’80s. […] May 31st, 2013 | Tags: Grade inflation, hacking your education, social promotion, Thomas H. Benton, William Pannapacker | Category: News Commentary, Photo Education | Leave a comment Having witnessed this “northward drift” of grades as a teacher in both undergraduate and graduate liberal-arts programs over the past four decades, I can testify that it’s very real. And I’m willing to wager that, if social promotion ever get traced to its origins in higher education, we will learn that it began in college-level studio art programs, and, even more specifically, in college-level photo programs, circa 1965. […] May 27th, 2013 | Tags: American Freshman Survey, Grade inflation, Photo Imaging Education Association (PIEA), social promotion, Stuart Rojstaczer | Category: News Commentary, Photo Education | Leave a comment |
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There Will Be Ink (2)
I can bemoan the erosion of the analog library that I grew up loving as a quasi-sacral space, a physical site that embodied our cultural commitment to preserving our accumulated knowledge as imbedded in words on paper. And, at the same time, watching the children of my community surfing the net in our new postmodern branch library, I can also say, “Just look how beautiful it is. […]