Reflection is hard in the post-modern era. At least that’s what I think a guy like Giddens would say. At least if he finally admitted that post-modernity exists or existed. However, if I must reflect despite the inevitability of living in the past, present and future all at once, I would turn up a Hall […]
Month: July 2019
ADTED 581: Lessons 11&12 – Bourdieu and Lifelong Learning – Personal Learning Journal Entry #10
Much like Joseph Beuys’4 Blackboards (1972) my piece, Meta Habitus (2019) is a physical manifestation of my learning process in regard to Pierre Bourdieu through the work of the artist, Tommie Soro. It is also an embodied representation of my re-mixed Beuysian philosophy that there is no difference between Lance the artist and Lance the educator (or […]
ADTED 581: Lesson 10 – Race, Gender, Class and Difference – Personal Learning Journal Entry #9
“There can be no artistic breakthrough without some form of crisis in civilization…” (West in Lemert, 2018, pg. 392). Cornel West wrote these words in 1990 for Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures. I was 15 years old and going on 16. I was a rebellious budding artist with a keen sense of fairness and […]
ADTED 581 – Lesson 9 – Power and Inequality – Personal Learning Journal Entry #8
In a discussion with Richard Wolff, founder of Democracy at Work and Professor of Economics, about Antonio Gramsci’s groundbreaking prison papers, the sound engineer dropped the one name that I never expected to hear…Johnny Cash. What does Marxist economics have to do with outlaw country?! Of course! I get it! Johnny Cash sang about prison! Our […]
ADTED 581 – Lesson 8 – Modernity – Personal Learning Journal Entry #7
Much like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), my dreams are narrative. There are stories told and information passed but in disjointed and confusing patterns. When I wake up I’m left to piece them all together. Most times, I can come to some conclusion as to what these subconscious constructions have to do with […]